Peer Responses #1
Emma’s Archive
Emma’s Archive is awesome! The website is easy to navigate and fun to explore. I especially like all the colours and would love to learn how to add more colour to my website. Your blog post 1 made me reflect on my own hobbies and how they connect to ARC’s model. I completely agree that a large part of knowledge is connecting new information to prior knowledge. I would also say that knowledge is how you adapt that information to new situations through prior knowledge.
My feedback to you would be to include more variety in your future posts. A chart or bullet points could break up the material. I know your schedule must be packed with all the work from your 7 courses (kudos to your work ethic, because I sometimes find 5 courses overwhelming), but it might be worthwhile to review the tables and lists section of the Blog Post Checklist. I would also be interested to see some other resources, such as a video or a podcast that involves learning or teaching, since you have so much experience in the area as a third-year BEd student.
EDCI 335- Max Lockwood
Max, your blog is extremely engaging and has numerous interesting aspects. The images and stories you used were personal, which made the post fly by as a reader. It was neat to read the connections you made to your own experience and interests with the course material. I was inspired to reflect on my past jobs and how they relate to the different learning theories. In your “Understanding of Learning” section, you explain how you study for your Human Anatomy course. It is cool to see how the steps you use are related to the cognitive learning theory that you mention in your next section.
Your blog checks off all the rubric’s boxes, so my suggestion to you for your second post is to further individualize your site.
Alexandra Sarro
Alex, your blog is super interesting and I loved how you included your experience in France. I immediately looked up Antibes, France and it is beautiful! Your story of learning how to use the bus system can be used as an example of the “relevance” aspect of the ARC’s model of motivation. Your learning was relevant to your experience because, I’m assuming, you had to use public transportation to get around. I admire your determination and problem-solving skills— it would have taken me forever to figure that system out.
My feedback for your blog is to, if you have the chance, look over the Blog Post Checklist and include some other aspects to your post. It would be really cool if you added a hyperlink to the bus system or even an information page about Antibes, so that your readers could learn more about what your experience would have been like. Thank you for sharing; I now have Antibes on my bucket list!