Imperceptibly arrived at the last blog, time passed really fast. I have to say, I really gained a lot of knowledge from this course that I didn’t know before, and I also realized the fun of writing from creating the blog. This is a rare life experience and asset for me. For our final blog post, we asked for a video clip. I had almost no experience in video editing before. What I did was to record my life in fragments without thinking of categorizing and integrating them. In the process of video editing, I further realized that this is not only a skill we should learn, but also makes life more meaningful.
The video I edited is about some fragments of my personal life from 2020 to 2022. I used the app iMovie. I downloaded these small videos from the mobile phone to the computer, cut them into a suitable length and put them together, and added a background music. I think it was a successful attempt as a beginner.
I further realized the fun of this aspect, and I believe that I will keep the habit of video editing in the future.
Before I started assignment 3, I really had no idea about this requirement. Because I wrote every blog post carefully, I don’t know where to update it. But when I looked into what I had learned in this course, I found that there was still some room for improvement. Of course this course was my first exposure to a similar type of course, which was blogging. I have always been a weak person in writing, and usually I do not exercise this ability consciously. Therefore, it is also a good opportunity for me to experience the pleasure of recording my feelings and opinions in words. I also cherish this opportunity. From the perspective of the course itself, this course has taught me the importance of learning methods and multimedia. I am glad that digital teaching has become popular in our daily life. In addition, it was the first time for me to contact canva, the world’s 13th web page, which was much more convenient than the traditional PPT I was used to. All of this, I believe, is due to the modern digital dissemination of information.
In our daily life communication and learning, creation and design are also closely related to us. Whenever we learn a new knowledge, just understanding the explanations and exercises in the book may not make us understand the knowledge in a real sense. At this time, perhaps creating relevant learning experience and materials will enable us to better understand and apply the new knowledge in this process. In the process of creation, we can also embed our own insights, and in the process of sharing with others, we can also improve our own capabilities.
In the previous study, PPT may meet most of our needs, and we will use PPT to help us integrate and understand. But in fact, the template and layout of PPT sometimes seem crowded and messy, which may lead to confusion of thinking and lack of interest in learning, So Canva is a better choice.
In fact, this was my first encounter with Canva, and it was a new experience for me. Canva was previously ranked 13th in the world’s Top 100 Tools for Learning, just behind word documents, which we often use. Compared with traditional PPT, canva’s page is more concise and easy to understand, and more suitable for understanding and propaganda. I also look forward to experiencing more and more fun of learning Canva in the future.
As the saying goes, it is never too late to learn, and learning is what we have been studying since we were born. From when we were born to learn to talk and walk, to the age of the growing school to learn knowledge and culture, learning can be said to be everywhere.
Through today’s reading and learning, I have learned that learning can be divided into 8 principles, which are independent but closely related to each other. If I had used any methods in my first 20 years of study and life, I believed they were readiness, exercise and recency. In fact, the overall education model in China is relatively rigid, which I think is due to the fact that China has a large population and limited opportunities, so there is a lot of competition. Therefore, I had been exposed to more exam-oriented education since I was a child.
To be specific, I have been taught to study for exams since childhood. When I was in primary school, my mother would enroll me in various interest classes, which took up a lot of my spare time. Not only do I need to finish my homework in class, but I also need to finish a lot of extra homework. As much as I hate to do it, I hate to be inferior to others. What I didn’t know was that this was actually bad for my study habits and I didn’t feel the pleasure of learning.
After I came to foreign countries, I found that the education mode here is more flexible. Accordingly, I also need to spend more time on self-restraint and planning in private.
In fact, I was not used to such a learning mode at the beginning. Suddenly, I broke away from the supervision and discipline of the teacher, which made me lack of self-discipline in the beginning of my study and life, and also delayed some lessons. But I gradually found my own way of learning, and it felt even better than when someone was watching me. At the beginning, I did not know the reason for this, but after learning this course, I realized that many education modes and concepts in my country did not follow the basic learning principles, which led to my unhappy study.
Principles of study
The diagram above illustrates several important core about learning ideas in the simplest possible terms, which is exactly what I want to express. All the supervision and urging of the outside world are inferior to someone’s own love and desire for knowledge, and the correct learning method is the best teacher to stimulate the passion of learning. This is more useful than any other power.
The principle of learning
Of course, although I have explored the road of learning for so long, I still have many shortcomings. For example, due to too many tasks, I forget that I am most willing to learn when I feel pleasant and satisfying, which indirectly leads to my low learning efficiency and the effect is just the opposite. And I am also trying to connect learning with things I am interested in to help me understand and apply them more deeply. To put it into a nutshell, learning is everyone’s lifelong lesson, only find the right way will get the most benefit from it.
Reference
GrggU. [GrggU]. (2019, October 6). General Principles of Learning. [Video]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnd_di_cqGQ&t=158s
With the development of the modern electronic information technology, more and more people are working on education would like to use multimedia, which convenient and improve the learning efficiency to a certain extent. I still remember when I was a primary student, that was the first time I learned about it. Because up until then, the teaching method had been written on a blackboard. In order to renovate the whole teaching system, the school had also changed the structure of the classroom, installed large screens for each class. So that teachers could write on it, show slides, and even search relevant videos online to explain a difficult point. To some extent, the change of education mode had a positive impact on me, which was embodied in my willingness to spend more time on study. Multimedia teaching is indeed an important change in the history of education, vivid and interesting pictures can motivate students more than monotonous words, and the integration of all the information helps students to grasp the key points unconsciously (Mayer, R. E, 2020).
When I was in junior high school, a knowledge point in physics class was very confusing to me, because the explanation in books was very difficult to understand. Therefore, the teacher used the newly installed multimedia teaching materials to find a video, in which the principle and process of the results were easily explained by experiments. From then on, I used to search for relevant information on the Internet when I did not understand anything.
The popularization of multimedia
Through today’s study and my personal experience, I think multimedia teaching is a way that needs to be popularized. Not only in learning, digital information is closely related to our life, mobile phone is a good example. No matter I was in primary school, or now I am in university, it seems that more and more students around me are using iPad to record. In fact, it is also a kind of information sharing. After all, the Internet itself has turned the whole earth into a small global village. Various pictures and videos have enhanced the interaction between us and knowledge and encouraged students’ passion for learning to a great extent.
Reference
Mayer, R. E.(2020), Introduction to Multimedia Learning. University of California, Santa Barbara. https://bright.uvic.ca/content/enforced/56526202101EDCI337A01(21097)CO/Introduction_to_Multimedia_Learning_edited.pdf&d2lSessionVal=YJmC3BgYIOiShB2jujDewcRoa&&d2lSessionVal=YPsrQCbsXCEZfwNIFuFqVc28m
Mike Tyler. [Mike Tyler]. (2020, April 4). Introduction | The 12 Multimedia Instructional Principles. [Video]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6yUsUkePVI
Actually, this is the first time I become a blogger, and I feel so excited.Blogging is also a great way to document my life. Before choosing this course, I noticed that it mainly explained how to interact with others and express my opinions on social media. I always think that learning every skill is not a waste of time, and today’s society is connected to the Internet. People use it everywhere, from a school that needs its own website to a country that has its own Internet system. The Internet has become the main channel for people to get the latest news, and it has a promising development trend as a new industry. Nowadays, the rapid rise of not only microblog but also short video industry is driving the rapid development of the entire Internet industry. Therefore, it is very necessary for us to learn knowledge in this area. Especially in the current international epidemic environment, the Internet is even more important. Not only can it be used for classes, but also people can only learn outside information and real-time changes of the epidemic situation through the Internet when there is no way to go abroad or even at home. It is hard to imagine how serious the impact on the international economy would have been had the outbreak occurred in the past, when the Internet was not developed. In the next two months, I will learn this course seriously and apply it to my future life and work.
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