Hayley’s Blog

After creating a LAMS task for my university course I was intrigued to find out more about these new learning designs so went straight to the source for some information. On the LAMS website it discusses what a learning design is, that it is simply is an interactive online learning sequence. Furthermore the article goes on to say that learning designs do not exclude single learner e-learning, it just has a higher focus on collaborative learning as students learn from working with their peers. Although learning designs are a great way to promote interactive learning, and expand upon a topic, teachers need to be careful that they do not create these tasks to be purely based on covering the technology section of the syllabus. When used correctly learning designs such as LAMS allow for great collaborative or individual learning, that can either introduce a topic, build upon previous knowledge, or conclude they study of a topic, the sky is the limit with these online tasks! For the LAMS my partner and I created, we focused on the water cycle and realised that rather than simply cutting and pasting pictures we could get students to watch videos, play games, make stories all to do with the water cycle it was an excellent tool that put a creative twist on classroom learning. Best of all, even though it was an online tasks students could only access information we have provided them with, all in all this is an excellent way to build a lesson for your students.

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