First Principles of Instruction

Book First Principles of Instruction M. David Merrill. (2012).

M. David Merrill. (2012). First Principles of Instruction. John Wiley & Sons.

Thinking about principles.

Merril's First Principles of Instruction

Before he defines his first principles, Merrill clarifies his terms (based on Reigeluth (1999) defining basic and variable methods). 

Merrill quote:

"A principle (basic method) is a relationship that is always true under appropriate conditions regardless of program or practice (variable method). A practice is a specific instructional activity. A program is an approach consisting of a set of prescribed practices." (M. David Merrill, 2012)

Google 'research' ☺💪 states

Effective, efficient, and engaging instruction. What promotes effective, efficient, and engaging instruction? First Principles of Instruction: Activation, Demonstration, Application, Integration, and Problem-centered.

Link to book for further reading

https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/First_Principles_of_Instruction/6PQBV4LUMF0C?hl=en&gbpv=0

Experiential Learning

Experiential Learning - what is the Experiential Learning cycle? Kolb's theory and model and how has it been developed in a contemporary context?

Experiential Learning - brainstorming in MIRO

Would like to investigate this article more...

 

Some thoughts: Does a contemporary Experiential Learning approach aim to better prepare students for the world of work? - link

Cognitive Development Theory

 Also, today, putting this video here.

Thinking through ...

Design Principles, learning, and the immediate, personal, 'context-ghost'

Short version of below text

Merill’s First principles of instruction, in particular, the second point “existing knowledge is activated as a foundation for new knowledge“, is really resonating with me as I am conscious of the contextualising that is going on in the back of mind as I read through.

Community of Inquiry reminded me of Vygotsky’s social development theory.
As I read through Robert Gagné’s Nine Steps in the back of my mind I ‘stepped through’ a class I had written. A lesson plan for a 2D animation class. I haven't taught animation for a long time, but it just popped into my head as a comparison when I read through the 9 steps.

Leads me to reflect on the consideration of existing knowledge in the varying aproaches of design principles.

Note - may be unreadable. It is a rough draft to capture thoughts. Coming back to edit later.

Design Principles, some little moments that I recognised. 

In particular Merill’s First principles of instruction, while reading through I have in the back of my mind Piaget, Vygotsky and (even) Froebel’s Gifts …some background knowledge of Cognitive Development theory (from an eLearning module I worked on a few years ago). 

This knowledge is helping me to mentally ‘place’ aspects of my learning as I read through these Design Principles. 

Merill’s First principles of instruction second point “existing knowledge is activated as a foundation for new knowledge“ 

Robert Gagné's Nine Steps of Instruction reminds me of Piaget and also Froebel’s Gifts, 

Community of inquiry reminded me of Vygotsky’s social development theory. Which makes me wonder about underlying theories (or context) behind these Design Principles. What was the context for the design principles development and how does this inform…?

 I am also thinking about these design principles and applying them ‘gently’ as I read through, to my experience.

For example, teaching a 2 D animation workshop. 

I read through Robert Gagné’s 9 Steps and mentally ghosted what I had structured in my lesson plan for that/a session. And thought about what I was trying to cover with what I’d structured, and did it align to Gagné’s 9 Steps – feeling it largely did, as that is why it came to mind as a kind of immediate, personal, 'context-ghost' as I read through.

This experience is really described in Merill’s First principles of instruction second point “existing knowledge is activated as a foundation for new knowledge“.

I find myself wanting to shape a blog post into a fugue. Not that clever though. Completely out of time.

By Roland Topor. Paris, France 1938-97

Revisit Bloom's Taxonomy

Revisiting Blooms Taxonomy (2022). This one by University of Utah - 2 Aug 2022.

Now I have context in regard to revised version by Anderson and Krathwohl's published in 2001. (Noteably: noun to verb)

Download University of Utah handout here

The video by Common Sense Education is from 2016. Gives context and focuses on what they term "Bloom's Digital Taxonomy" Duration 4:51mins

Three stills from the video that talk about different iterations and metaphors.

My next step here is to learn more about SOLO and its origins. 

Take on me #☺

 Is there a term that sits between epiphany and 'a-ha moment'?

Today's back-of-the-mind quandary. 

ADDIE is something I am looking at and indeed connecting to my knowledge or working thinking around UX and UI. +Agile. 

No time to place all of the frameworks I am exploring here - perhaps this particular post will be edited where I can.

With said 'betweener'-constructed-meaning moments.  ! 

(that last sentence is a bit like a myBib url) 👈 A 'ho-ho' moment, rather than 'a-ha'

Edit: I didn't write what I was thinking about here (perhaps connecting edu processes-thinking to Asimov's books being jettersoned into a streamed appleTV series - a selection of writers with specific writing styles to address certain aspects of (tvseries) story telling - allowing an enormous amount of freedom while still connected with the main concept. The principles of Asimov's Robot Wars books...

I'm tooo busy! leaving this for another time. Should delete - but there's enough to capture something (for me at least!!) #☺