Instructional Tech - Kevin

  Reflections on the readings of the week   I appreciated the opportunity to read the content this week. It covered a range of things, like Spector’s article (Spector, 2008) on theoretical foundations of instructional design, to Reeves’ article (Reeves, 2020) about the fallacies the public might accept about instructional design. I think the article that was of most interest to me was Reiser’s article (Reiser, 2018) on defining the field. I have always been very interested in semantics and the obligation we all have to “say what you mean, and mean what you say” …unless you are an elected official. So, it with great interest that I read of how the field of Instructional Design and Technology (IDT) has defined itself over time.   In the 1920’s, as the technology of media was beginning to explode, IDTers of the time focused on the new opportunities that media presented to educators, the ‘birth’ of instructional media – now a subset of IDT. Fast forward 50 years, an...

  Reflection on My Pedagogic Creed by John Dewey I found this creed to be fascinating. Dewey seemed very forthright and far-reaching in his thoughts about the ‘perfect’ educational setting. Being that the creed was published in 1897, It took me a few moments to orient myself on the meaning of the terminology he used. He spoke of race, which at the time would not indicate genetic groups rather it would encompass the ‘human race’. Dewey spoke of social situations and status, and, as he was an American, it seems unlikely he was speaking solely about nobility class structures, but, I believe, would also be including economic classes, and the ability of one born in any of the ‘social situations’ to rise, or sink, according to their educational efforts. I think the greatest takeaway, for me, was the idea present in Article Two, where Dewey says (Dewey, 1897), “I believe that…school life should grow gradually out of home life”, that “[The school should] deepen and extend [the students] ...