<div class="xblock xblock-public_view xblock-public_view-vertical" data-init="VerticalStudentView" data-request-token="e9728bb42fc311f1a0560affdc2c279f" data-runtime-class="LmsRuntime" data-block-type="vertical" data-course-id="course-v1:MITx+11.132x_3+1T2017" data-has-score="False" data-usage-id="block-v1:MITx+11.132x_3+1T2017+type@vertical+block@3b5c879288b8432eb5db2e16477fd038" data-runtime-version="1" data-graded="False"> <h2 class="hd hd-2 unit-title">Activity Break: Make a Mod</h2> <div class="vert-mod"> <div class="vert vert-0" data-id="block-v1:MITx+11.132x_3+1T2017+type@html+block@37062b6e597f48eaa283be60071a9834"> <div class="xblock xblock-public_view xblock-public_view-html xmodule_display xmodule_HtmlBlock" data-init="XBlockToXModuleShim" data-request-token="e9728bb42fc311f1a0560affdc2c279f" data-runtime-class="LmsRuntime" data-block-type="html" data-course-id="course-v1:MITx+11.132x_3+1T2017" data-has-score="False" data-usage-id="block-v1:MITx+11.132x_3+1T2017+type@html+block@37062b6e597f48eaa283be60071a9834" data-runtime-version="1" data-graded="False"> <script type="json/xblock-args" class="xblock-json-init-args"> {"xmodule-type": "HTMLModule"} </script> <p>For this unit's assignment, you'll start thinking about your approach for addressing your learning challenge. Before you start designing your own educational technology, you will modify an existing one!  This will serve as a stepping stone to help you look critically at the design of a learning experience.</p> <ol> <li><strong style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em;">Choose an existing learning intervention.</strong><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em;"> W</span><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em;">e are defining a “learning intervention” as an activity which engages learners with some particular content area. This could be an educational game, but it could also be a textbook, science lab, set of flash cards, etc. Even a driver’s manual or a learn-to-juggle video. Anything goes!</span></li> <li><strong style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em;">Tell us how you would modify (in other words, "Make a Mod")  that learning intervention to make it better. </strong><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em;">Identify weak points in the intervention as it exists, or opportunities to improve learning outcomes. These outcomes could be in the form of greater engagement or motivation, increased content knowledge, more authentic skill development, etc. Try to ground your changes in educational theory or other proven methods.</span></li> </ol> <p><strong>Be creative and record your thoughts and ideas in your digital course journal or blog. </strong><strong>Provide pictures, diagrams, or anything else </strong>that will help you explain your ideas to a peer or colleague. <strong>Share your ideas with a peer or colleague and take note of their constructive feedback in your digital course journal or blog. </strong></p> </div> </div> </div> </div>