to inform audiences directly
Background: When the U. S. Air Force trained me as a technical instructor in 1957, the Instruction model was Tell'em: "Tell'em what you're going to tell'em, tell'em, and tell'em what you told'em. As instructors we were told to motive our students by creating a "burning yearning for learning." |
The Instructional Model: Opening (Learning Goal): An ad for what's coming; e.g., "In this session we will cover the three addresses carried in every datagram sent from and to your workstation."
Middle (From Known to New Known): Explanation of knowledge to be learned; e.g., "Just as each of us has several identifiers: DNA, name, home address, so, too, your terminal has three identifiers to the network: a hardware addess, unique to every device, a net address for the net you are on, and an app address for your network connection.
Closing (Learning Assessment): To ascertain learning has occurred; e.g., in Internet class, "How many addresses does your net device use in a session and what are they?" (clarify and discuss). |
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