Based on the reading I found two concepts to be the most note worthy. One concept the text addreessed was the analysis. The other concept that I found interesting was globalization.
The text made it seam as though most businesses did not feel that analysis was important or worth the investment of time or money. I found this appalling because of the fact that it seems as though analysis is what allows instructional design to be successful or not. As a designer it is extrememely important to know your audience and who you are designing for. The analysis stage is where a designer would get their information on what is important to put into the design. If a civil engineer did not do analysis on a bridge project, there would be no way for them to successfully design a bridge. A engineer would have to check the soil, the traffic, the distance, the materials, the budget, etc... It would be much more expensive for a company to have to build two bridges ignoring analysis. It is not much different when desiging instruction without analysis. If a company were to pay an instructional designer but not pay or allow time for analysis an instructional designer would not be "playing with a full deck." In my professional line of work I am glad that I get to decide how much time I spend on each step of design. I can spend time getting to know my audience before designing lessons. Also, I get a many opportunities to redo lessons or re teach concepts if my analysis tells me that what I did, did not work.
Globalization was interesting to me. This really hit home as we just had two students join our school who do not speak English. I can see as a professional it will become more and more important to become versed in ways of communicating. It will also become more and more important for schools to teach students about a flattening world and globalization along with preparing for them. Business needs to help shape what schools are doing and if the business is becoming global... learning needs have a global perspective.
4 comments:
Matt,
I must have not picked up on the idea that businesses feel analysis is not important. That is a no brainer, huh? I don't think any aspect of life is done very well if it is not analyzed in some way, shape or form.
Also, great point that since businesses are becoming globalized, learning MUST also. This is an idea that I haven't encountered being addressed. Everyone is so worried about teaching benchmarks that will pass some state test, that I think they are missing the point that that is exactly what is keeping the U.S. from being educationally competitive with the rest of the world. We must learn how to communicate with everyone else, or what good does math scores do?
I don't know, what do you think?
Chrissy
I did not really think about the anaysis aspect of the article until I read your review. How true your comment was about knowing your target audience and adjusting to fit your target. I think this can be true to any classroom as well. This year I moved from a 5th grade room down to a 4th and I had to analyse a lot of what I was doing, one because the curiculum was different but so was the maturity level of my studnets. One year made a world of a difference and I needed to adjust my language and other things I was doing to fit there needs.
Jennifer
You are absolutly right without analysing before implementing it can be very costly. Education is a business, that luckily I don't have to deal with (not my best area)but we need to have a strong administration to be successful.
I defintely think that education should be global. But I think that it should be that on its own merit and not just because of business. I feel that too much of education is trying to mimic business and it should be the other way around.
Education always seems to need to be influenced by other areas like art influencing life but life also influencing art so noone knows which occurred first.
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