InfoGuides: One Button Studio: Instructional Strategies

Instructional Strategies

It is important to match the design of your activities with the level of work you expect from your students. If your project is either too complex or too simple, it may not yield the learning outcomes that you had planned. The following chart provides some basic examples matched with a range of target thinking skills.

Skill Level	Description	Examples
CREATING	Putting together ideas or elements to develop an original idea or engage in creative thinking	Short Videos or Podcasts Choose an overarching theme and tie in several course concepts to demonstrate understanding of interrelationships between concepts as well as the ability to transfer knowledge to new situations. Remixing Selecting, evaluating, and integrating 3rd-party media to create an original work.
EVALUATING	Judging the value of ideas, materials, and methods by developing and applying standards and criteria	Critique via Blogs Post videos or podcasts to a blog and elicit discussion around that media as blog comments; provide a lost of required elements to include in comments.
ANALYZING	Breaking information down into its component elements	Video Analysis Create a gallery of video clips illustrating a concept (ex. moments in a news broadcast which illustrate persuasive rhetoric)
APPLYING	Using strategies, concepts, principles, and theories in new situations	Podcast Interviews Identify experts, craft questions, and conduct in-the-field interviews Simulations Role-playing Presenting Produce a video presentation formally illustrating key concepts.
UNDERSTANDING	Explaining ideas or concepts and demonstrating comprehension of information or frameworks	Reflection Podcast Provide verbal feedback or interpretation on a topic to demonstrate basic understanding. Video Annotating Comment on existing media using various audio/video annotating tools.