Week 3: Instructional Design, Theorists, Theories and Models

Oops, I almost forgot about the journaling thing, and for  some reason I didn’t notice the Siftables Video Link until Saturday night.

The siftables look like they could be fun.  I could see them being used as an electronic version of scrabble or boggle.  They could also be used for children like in the video of the little kid who was using them to make up his own story.  I think children would really enjoy the story telling application.  The math demo clearly demonstrated how they could be used to help elementary children learn math skills, and they would be more engaging than the traditional flash cards.   I couldn’t really see how the color mixing application was very useful, but I guess maybe he was just showing what all the siftables could do and that in itself was impressive to me. 

I watched the awareness test earlier in the week and actually my older daughter had shown it to me a few months ago.  What I find interesting is that I never saw the bear the first time I watched the video, but once the dancing bear was pointed out, that was all I could see.  Now when ever I watch it, I find it hard to count the passes, because I am so distracted by the bear.  Weird.

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