1 00:00:15,450 --> 00:00:24,206 As you noted during your exploration in the previous module, a sequence of learning activities, including assessments, comprise all lessons. 2 00:00:24,206 --> 00:00:31,161 How, though, do teachers determine which learning activities to include in their designs? 3 00:00:31,161 --> 00:00:38,045 In this module, you will explore a taxonomy of learning activities with supporting technologies. 4 00:00:38,045 --> 00:00:45,000 You can use these to revise or create effective learning experiences for your students. 5 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:54,323 As teachers, we tend to gravitate toward those learning activities that appeal to us, those which we have enjoyed most as students, 6 00:00:54,323 --> 00:01:01,498 those that we have found to be most successful as teachers, or those that we simply prefer for other reasons. 7 00:01:01,498 --> 00:01:07,094 These ways of selecting learning activities are unnecessarily limiting, however. 8 00:01:07,094 --> 00:01:15,104 It's easy to overlook potentially effective learning activities with which we are less familiar or have simply forgotten. 9 00:01:15,104 --> 00:01:22,593 Considering a more comprehensive collection of learning activities during planning would be more effective. 10 00:01:22,593 --> 00:01:30,766 We have collaborated with curriculum experts in nine different content areas to create comprehensive collections of possible learning activities in each. 11 00:01:30,766 --> 00:01:41,982 We then organized these learning activity types (or LATs) into categories and subcategories unique to each content area to make them easier for teachers to use in their planning. 12 00:01:41,982 --> 00:01:48,460 Links to these taxonomies can be found in the LAT Short Course Resources document. 13 00:01:48,460 --> 00:02:00,337 For example, in the science taxonomy, the two primary learning activity types categories are knowledge building and knowledge expression. 14 00:02:00,337 --> 00:02:10,751 The knowledge building activity types are further subdivided into either conceptual or procedural knowledge building activities. 15 00:02:10,751 --> 00:02:16,428 Each of the taxonomies are similarly organized to make them easier for busy teachers to use. 16 00:02:16,428 --> 00:02:26,854 For each learning activity type or LAT, we offer both a description of the learning activity, and suggested educational technologies that can be used to support it. 17 00:02:26,854 --> 00:02:31,486 The technologies included in the third columns of the taxonomies are not meant to be exhaustive. 18 00:02:31,486 --> 00:02:39,056 Instead, we hope that they can provide some initial ideas about technologies that can best support each LAT. 19 00:02:39,056 --> 00:02:49,958 Choosing appropriate educational technologies according to the goals of each learning activity can help to ensure that students’ curriculum-based learning is the primary focus for technology use. 20 00:02:49,958 --> 00:03:01,022 Alternatively, when we choose learning activities according to which technologies we want to use, we place the quality and effectiveness of students’ learning at risk. 21 00:03:01,022 --> 00:03:03,994 Now it’s time for you to explore a taxonomy. 22 00:03:03,994 --> 00:03:11,000 Choose the one that is most relevant to your teaching assignment. You can always explore other taxonomies of interest later. 23 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:16,000 Please follow these steps as you explore this taxonomy. 24 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:23,975 First, download the Taxonomy Exploration Guide from the LAT Short Course Resources document. 25 00:03:23,975 --> 00:03:36,421 When you first view the taxonomy, read the introductory text and skim the taxonomy to see how the LATs are organized into categories and sub-categories. 26 00:03:36,421 --> 00:03:42,783 Now read through the learning activities in the different categories and subcategories. 27 00:03:42,783 --> 00:03:53,116 List the LATs that are familiar. From this list, identify the particular LATs that you think you would probably use frequently. 28 00:03:53,116 --> 00:04:00,059 Now note the LATs that seem promising, but that you haven't had much experience using. 29 00:04:00,059 --> 00:04:04,958 Keep your completed Taxonomy Exploration Guide to use in the next module. 30 00:04:04,958 --> 00:04:11,566 This module will help you to identify combinations of learning activities for the lesson that you will create.