For our group’s resource on the psychology of social media and digital habits, I chose a clip from the Huberman Lab podcast called “How Social Media Is Rewiring Your Brain” with Dr. John Kruse. It focuses on how mindless scrolling trains our brains to overreact to distractions, basically giving us ADHD-like symptoms. The most shocking…
Blog 4 I think your analysis of using H5P for a complex topic like race and racism is incredibly thoughtful. You made a great point about how basic multiple-choice or true/false setups only offer a limited, surface-level interaction that can lead to guessing rather than actual understanding. Your idea to use scenario-based questions and case…
Think of a recent learning experience (online or otherwise) you’ve had as a student. Where did it assume an “average” learner? Briefly describe one or more ways you would redesign it using UDL principles to better support learner variability. A few terms ago, I took a philosophy course focused on formal logic and set theory….
Trying to connect learning theories to an actual design felt pretty abstract until we started building our blueprint. For EDCI 335, my pod decided to focus on the Psychology of Social Media and Developing Healthier Digital Habits. While our pod collaborated to outline the broader curriculum, we are independently evaluating different instructional strategies on our…
The title is a nod to a Bollywood movie. The blog talks about my journey through a cognitive psychology course, going from feared to favorite One of my best learning experiences was taking PSYC 351C (Cognitive Psychology). I took this course after a really rough academic term where I was not doing my best and…