Sweet! I'm learning the ADDIE lingo!

Learning the Language of ADDIE

Lingo instruca, anyone?

One of the things that I just began to appreciate this weekend was the repetition of terms.  Perhaps I am just thick-headed or stubborn but many of these new terms associated with analysis & ADDIE felt irritatingly similar & sometimes redundant.

I think it's beginning to sink in, finally, & the true significance of subtle difference between things like goal statement & instructional need is starting to make sense to me.

It was easier for me to think of it all as an analysis problem for which their must be an app or at least some software (like MindMeister) for which I could simply plug in the characteristics of my idea - making teaching, learning & consuming information easier through VR - in over-simplistic terms & my potential target population.  Then, the app's algorithm would simply spit out the analyses & I could move forward from their to design & development (production) of the process for which I could apply my solution.

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In a very cool & real way, the continual introduction & repetition of these terms by different authors is like learning a new language.  Like learning Arabic, much of the first few weeks & chapters The Systematic Design of Instruction - Dick & Carey was so much incoherent psycho-babble to me.

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Now, & this is a little scary, it is starting to become more fluid in my mind & I feel a little like Neo - I'm starting to see the vocabulary & definitions of surrounding the real-world process like Neo sees the code precipitating in eerie green columns through the Matrix.  I'm believing & thinking & dreaming in ADDIE!

SWEET!!!

Guess I'd better not get cocky - I can hear Han Solo chiding me for nailing my first Imperial Tie Fighter & over-celebrating.

I'm not giving up that eventually there'll be strong AI that'll listen to my dictation of the problem & spit out the analyses based on the big data available to such an Eschelon/Eagle-Eye/Skynet supercomputer.



With that said, I am starting to become very interested in the analysis process.  So much so, that I am eager to get surrounded by teachers who are afraid of implementing tech in class & do a lot of interviews & surveys.

Guess I'll go make a Survey Monkey!