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• Reflect on the ICT or lack thereof you experienced in your placements

Comprehensive review of the class so far

Course outline

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Assessment Rubric

ICT allows us to work smarter not harder.

• ongoing process 
• constant Beta
• learn, unlearn, relearn

Theory for the day

Cognitive Load Theory

Learning is a cognitive process that can be supported or inhibited by instructional design. All learning is subject to cognitive loading

• Intrinsic
• The inherent difficulty of the subject matter
• Extraneous
• Things that interfere
• Germane
• Schemas
• We get better with training and practice (education)
• eg,learn, unlearn, relearn Alvin Tofler, Future Shock

Implications for Instructional Design

• Chunking
• Multimedia
• Khan Academy

Rapid Cognition

•     Thin slice learning 
•     Blink, Malcolm Gladwell popularized. 
• We know things instantly, but only know we know after processing. 
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