The various learning strategies presented to us this past week are all excellent approaches to creating content for students. The biggest principle to me was the dual coding. I think everyone has experienced teachers who only talk, or only have dense slide decks with too many words and no images. For most of us, this approach does not work at all. When we were discussing dual coding it immediately made me think about my free inquiry project. When following a recipe, I find it to be so important that there are step by step pictures of the process, as well as a description. I find with these pictures, I understand so much better what the dough should look and feel like, and how I should be handling it. I think this concept applies to all learning. Students learn best when there is more than one presentation of the information.

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