Dr Naomi Rosedale - Student Design for Learning - Uru Manuka Leaders of Learning

 

Today with the Uru Manuka Leaders of Learning we had a Google Meet with Dr Naomi Rosedale about student design for learning.

What is a DLO?

We had a discussion in pairs about the definition of a DLO.  How does a student digital learning object compare to a teacher created digital learning object? 

These are the definitions we came up with.

The definition from research:

..." digital entity or content object using ‘different media modalities (and often interactivity) to represent data, information, reality, concepts and ideas...designed to afford educational reuse." (Churchill 2007 Pg 484)

The re-use part is important - it can teach others, extend learning for others (like a game or a simulation).

This was really interesting. 85% of DLOs are slideshows, 6% are screencastify, 4% video, 2% are animations. Do students get socialised into using slideshows because they see teachers using them (all the time) - we need to promote other things and teach them how to use other tools.

We talked about the five modes of communication - visual, aural, gestural, spatial, linguistic - and the combination of these is multimodal.

Student Created DLO definition: a process wherein students learn as they design for the learning of others (eg designing for teaching and knowledge building), and as a reusable digital entity (or object) designed with the affordances of different media modalities (eg. textual, audio, visual, spatial, kinaesthetic).

Rosedale, Jesson & McNaughton, 2019

Reflection on this...

Student design for learning part - wherein students learn as they design for the learning of others (eg designing for teaching and knowledge building)...

Potential for learning from - ...a reusable digital entity …. designed with the affordances of different media modalities (eg. textual, audio, visula, spatial, kinaesthetic).

Often student created DLO are all the same - using a template or too much teacher direction

How can we use a rubric to nudge the expectations of a DLO. Rubric needs to include design features which will improve the DLO - the features will help others learn when they watch the DLO.

What does student design for learning mean or what does student multimodal learning mean?

Students consider the audience that they are creating their DLO for with the specific purpose of teaching someone else what they have learnt so that the audience can learn from it too. Part of considering the audience is thinking about the best tool for the job and how to make it engaging for their audience - with sight, sound, and motion.

Soundbite

Does recording your voice have positive effects on learning in the classroom?  Over time children will become more confident and better with talking on their DLO.  Will it improve oral language?

Things to consider - MAPIC

Great session - lots of thought provoking content!