Reflective Journal 3
Reflective Journal 3
Topics Covered:
Reinforcement
Punishment
Overview / Summary of Topics:
Reinforcement can be either positive or negative. In terms of positive reinforcement, an individual is getting something good, and in negative reinforcement, they are avoiding something bad.
Punishment allows offenders less likely to participate in the behavior. The negative factor is that it teaches an individual what not to do, but it also doesn’t explain the expectations of what they should do.
Item of Interest:
Something that I found interesting was making connections for students using metaphors, examples, stories, comparisons, contrasts, etc. An instructor may also make connections by using audio, graphics, video, animation, and more. Teaching preschool, I have been trained to make connections with my students’ home lives, but I never really thought about the necessity of making connections with students of all ages.
Areas of Help or Clarification:
An area in which I would benefit from further clarification is the use of motivational messages. Motivational messages can be beneficial to support students and their progress in the course. To avoid sending large amounts of motivational messages, how does one determine the balance between wanting to motivate and becoming too much of a distraction?
I also try to make connections for older students using analogies to their world like sports, music or movies...even situations at PE time! In regards to motivational messages, if you are able to send something digitally, say within an LMS course, I would say every few weeks would not be overwhelmingly distracting. If you wanted to send something on an individual basis, 5 a week to different students might accomplish the goal of each student getting a message of some sort every 6 weeks.
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