Introduction to Instructional Desgin

Question 1: Define instruction, teaching, and intentional learning and discuss their differences.

 Instruction – is organizing and providing sets of information examples, experiences and activities that guide support and augment students’ internal mental process.

Teaching – involves instructors, learners, and textbooks. Teaching could be interpreted as getting content from the text into the hands of the learners in such a way that they could retrieve the information for a text.

Intentional Learning – is the learning strategies and processes.  Three components of intentional learning is (1) decision to engage in committed, persisted learning effort, (2) the ability to apply and manage strategic cognitive efforts to achieve goals and (3) extent to which the learner takes responsibility for learning autonomously.

The difference between teaching and instruction is that you can teach almost anything, concept, or idea.  When you instruct someone you are giving them a set of tools or task to do something specific

 

Question 2: What differentiates planned from unplanned instruction?

All learning that is not planned must be unplanned and  no learning can be both planned and unplanned. Planned learning is learning that is goal-directed.  Unplanned learning takes place when there is no learning goal.

Question 3: What is meant by the "systematic design" of instruction?

Systematic Design of Instructuction is a set of instructions planned to implement teaching.   Its design method is how learners will possess prior knowledge and their experiences which will help them how to learn new things.

Question 4: What is the socio-cultural context of learning?

 Socio-cultural context – learners learn by the language in order to effectively learn and understand. When language is learned the socio-cultural context in which it is used needs to be taked into consideration as well

 Question 5: What is meant by “situated cognition”?

Situated cognition is  knowing and by arguing that all knowledge is situated in activity bound to social, cultural and physical contexts.
 

Question 6: What is meant by the term "conditions of learning”

Conditions of Learning – in processing the views of learning which assume most human behavior to be very complex and controlled primarily by a person’s internal mental process rather than external stimuli and reinforcements.