Category: Assignment 2 – Blog Feedback

Hi! This is a very interesting post as you make a comparison between summative assessment and formative assessment. I agree with you that formative assessments are low-stakes and students feel relaxing when being assessed this way. For teachers, they tend to use summative assessments more as they implement lots of midterms and exams. I think both assessments are crucial to our learning, and I think teachers should trained with knowledge of applying both assessments appropriately. Nice post!

Hi Arezou! I found your post is very interesting to read. Yes, we have all experienced summative assessment in university and we are very familiar about it. I agree with you that summative assessments such as final exams that are worth a lot of your grade can make students feel anxious. It is still a predominant way of assessment in university. However, students in university tend to show less interest in formative assessment such as peer meetings that count 0% of your grade. Nice post overall!

Hi Rianne! I like how you apply Horndike’s connectionism theory to active learning principles. In connectionism theory, connections are important to understand new material. I also agree that augmented reality can help student make connections. By showing students pictures and videos, can help students make those connections in augmented reality. Furthermore, I think under pandemic, AR will become more useful because it makes the access to connections easier for learners.

Hi Julia! I like your blog about game-based learning. Like you, I also enjoy participate in Kahoot quizzes in the classrooms in high school. I think by making the learning more competitive and interesting, students will have more motivation and they are likely to interact with their peers more. Also, I think it’s also important for teachers to have the class under control when doing those game-based activities.

Hi Mahi! I like your lovely sketchnotes. I think this is a great way for learning because sketching allows our ideas to come up. Sketchnotes in my opinion work the best in education that’s between K5-K12. Children will benefit most from it because they like drawing and sketching. Great post!

Hi Rickey! I think you are offering a brilliant idea of a method in learning. Especially when there are lots of information on a slide, sometimes students have a hard time taking all the notes they need. The screenshot technology you introduced is indeed very practical and useful in classrooms, especially in higher level education. Nice work Rickey!

Hi James, nice Canvas poster you made right there! It looks good! Like you, I’m not familiar with AR as well. I don’t know how this kind of technology will apply to education. However, I think you made a great point that the transition from traditional learning to multimedia learning should be smooth. I would prefer traditional learning more with multimedia technology as supplementary resource for teaching. Nice post again! Looking forward to working with you!

Hi Kayla! I can’t agree with you more that information on PowerPoint slides should be concise and clear, rather than a slide with excessive text. I think this is something that we will be learning in the future, the principles of learning which can help us construct a high quality PowerPoint slide. I think this is very practical as well since we almost use PowerPoint every once in a while. Looking forward to working with you soon! Good luck with your semester!

Hi Gurbur! Thank you for your wonderful thoughts on cognitive theory of multimedia learning! I agree with you that not all multimedia learning components are equal in their ability to relay information to a student/learner. Some multimedia technologies are good for learning but some of the are not. We should be aware how and when to choose the technology that best fit for the learners. Looking forward to working with you soon!