All teachers need a lesson plan. The need to clarify and understand the requirements on how to handle the entire learning process and how students understand and store the knowledge passed to them emphasizes the importance of lesson planning. Also, the lesson plan can be used as a guide. Teachers use the lesson plan every day to determine what students will learn, how to teach lessons, and how to evaluate learning. Just like the example mentioned in Kevin Alexander’s podcast, if a teacher prepares course content without a lesson plan, he or she will easily run into a rabbit hole. For students, the lesson plan can not only help them achieve their learning goals but also help them summarize the important knowledge points of each lesson.
In my opinion, there are three multimedia principles relate to videos with embedded multiple-choice questions, and they are principles of spatial contiguity, coherence, and signaling.
Coherence: The best learning materials should limit irrelevant content. We should keep it simple. Think of the many absurd, dense, noisy, and chaotic slides you see before. The learner’s attention is easily attracted by other irrelevant content, so it is very difficult to learn from such content.
Spatial contiguity: In fact, we often find that the questions and options of the test are not on the same page. If the question is too long, we need to check the question and options repeatedly to find the correct answer. This situation will reduce our efficiency and make us spend more time answering questions.
Signaling: The use of the signaling principle in videos with multiple-choice questions not only enables learners to focus on the question but also enables learners to recall relevant knowledge based on the focus of each question.
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Lesson Plan Website: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13M7rIGsPCOLFmEEZHsWIR_umhTTtRZWYW4ucJC2cnW8/edit?usp=sharing
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