Day 02 - The (Real) World Is Not Enough

[mjennings]

TL;DR - Art & Culture app, create authentic assessments

[The (Real) World Is Not Enough: Virtual Field Trips & Authentic Assessment in Canvas]

shannondunn, Senior Instructional Designer, University of Florida
 @ahaskell , University of Florida

[NEED-TO-KNOW]

The major takeaways from this session were:

[ADDITIONAL INTEL]

 How do we get the authentic experiences when you can't actually go there?

Course available in Canvas Commons

Basics:

Authentic assessments - complex & representative challenges, depth > breadth

What are you assessing? Goals & objectives

Virtual field trips:

• Simulated visits = interactive & non linear 
• Video tours = linear & not interactive
• How & when? Give practice, caution from use it for content delivery, 
• Advantages = cost, can go places that are hard to get to or access.
• Obstacles = accessibility 
• great option for field work to prepare students for what they will encounter

Accessibility:

• Very visual & some have audio.
• Does it have keyboard navigation.
• Try to design with universal design in mind. 

Lessons Learned:

• Practice!
• Scaffold
• Plan for tech difficulties
• Universal Design & accomodation

Part 1 - Discussion

Part 2 - Explore with quieted questions.

Make sure you give good instructions so students know where to go & what to do.

Part 3 - Analysis

Now go & create your own!!!

[mjennings]

The video from the session can be found here -