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For the past few months, I have been working on redesigning my SIMPLE Learning model in AP Biology. Many good ideas surfaced during my brainstorming sessions a few weeks ago but I decided that one of these ideas needed to come first - building each SIMPLE lesson around a question rather than around one of … Continue reading AP Biology Reorganization – A Prototype

We are talking about prototyping this week in my Learning Technology by Design class and my lab task was to create something (a prototype) to represent an idea. The idea I choose was to represent my view of learning. After a bit of thought, I pulled together some old gloves, a hat, unused ethernet cables, … Continue reading A Prototype of my View of Learning

For the past two weeks, my Learning Technology by Design class has focused on ideation. The goal of this phase has been to generate as many ideas or solutions regarding my Problem of Practice as possible. Early in the week, I created an incubation journal in Evernote. I choose Evernote because I can access this … Continue reading Ideation Through Brainstorming and Incubation

This week in my Learning Technology By Design class, we are learning about ideation and how it can be broken down into two main part: brainstorming and incubation. While brainstorming is more of an active process of coming up with ideas, incubation is more of an unconscious process of letting our thoughts and ideas marinate and … Continue reading The Art of Ideation

This week, my Learning Technology By Design class asked me to craft a definition statement of my problem of practice (Re-Designing My SIMPLE Learning Cycle). Part 1: To help draft this specific and clear definition, I first worked through a few exercises to push my thinking a bit deeper. Check out my “5 Whys?”, “Why-How … Continue reading Defining My Problem of Practice