Blog APP 2

I am commenting today on http://www.internettime.com/blog/archives/001083.html

I feel that design is prevalent in everyday life, whether we are the one's engineering some new type of thing or merely experiencing something in the everyday world that surrounds us. I agree that art symbolizes the one that designed it in many ways, but on the other hand art, much like writing or any other creative pursuit, comes from a place deep inside us and thus it may not reflect who we are on the outside at all.

But I think that the exact opposite is true as we venture into Instructional Design. I feel that we should focus on adding a part of who we are to the diverse classroom experiences that we, as educators, create to help our students, and possibly colleagues, to get certain learning principles and ideas. I feel that if we do not give this part of us to our teaching then our students will see that it lacks some part of the thing that would make it truly successful and thus it would be flawed at a primordial level.

Secondly, while I agree with the sentiment that less is more I can't help but wonder why we think this is so. Certainly, it is better to be concise rather than verbose, but what if those extra ten words are needed to get exactly what we are trying to say across to the audience that we wish to inform, educate, or entertain.

One size fits all does not work with education as we have seen over the past two weeks in both our readings and electronic resources. Different individuals learn in different manners and so they must be taught in different ways so as to get the full effect of the eduycation that they seek. We must adapt to overcome the differences between the ways in which we teach and the ways in which our students do learn.