My bad news score was 9.032.The game demonstrated the self-explanation principal, which can be defined as people learning better when they are encouraged to generate self explanations during learning. This was evident in the game because the user was required to choose their own fate. The bad news game did not follow the coherent principle. This principle can be defined as the idea that people learn better when extraneous material is excluded rather than included. I felt that there was a lot of extraneous material in the game that was overwhelming.
With regards to my sketchnoting experience, I was fascinated by the concept. The multimedia principle and the split attention principle are applicable to sketchnoting. The multimedia principle can be defined as people learning better from words and pictures than from words alone. This is relevant because there is a emphasis on the sketch aspect of sketchnoting. As for the split attention principle, this is defined as the idea that people learn better when words and pictures are physically and temporally integrated. This is evident in sketchnoting because of the encouragement of drawing to help display an individual’s understanding.
I think sketchnoting could be helpful to me in my school work because it is a form of active learning. As the assigned article mentions, when people sketch, their learning is enhanced. I’m notorious for typing lecture notes. The article was accurate when it said that typing notes is just reiterating what the professor is saying, not understanding the material. The consequence of this is that when it comes time to study, I don’t have a solid foundation of information. When preparing for a test, I am technically starting from scratch.
In our course, we are using many active learning techniques. Our personal blogs are the largest and most evident example.
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