AHA moments and more.

Let this post be a collection of thoughts that have been scattered and gathered throughout the semester. What were some of my "AHA" moments? The concept that learning theory is all about the learner and really has little to do with the teacher's method of choice. It's preparing for a class by thinking "How can my students best learn this concept?" rather than "How do I want to teach this concept?" Another AHA moment is about the bells and whistles of technology. It is still yet to be proven that technology raises student achievement. Technology can help engage the learner and thus support learning, but modes of technology can become as routine as a pencil, paper, and calculator in my field and it really does come down to assessing student understanding at the core. These are just a few insightful learning moments. Obviously most of my learning was more than an AHA experience. Rather it has been an accumulation of gradual understanding about how the instructional design process works. It all comes back to our first friend in instructional design - ADDIE.