Author: hgardner
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Interaction and Informative Insomnia Videos (post 4)
₊ ⊹ ☾ ⊹ ₊ According to the video, cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) is a standard and drug-free treatment for insomnia which offers long-term benefits without side effects. The video presents CBT-I as a preferable form of treatment to sleeping pills, THC, and alcohol, which is noted to make sleep quality worse (Walker…
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Pod 3’s Peer Review of Pod 2
University of Victoria Department of Curriculum and Instruction EDCI 335 – Learning Design for Technology Mediated Environments Assignment 2 – Peer Review Pod 3: Hannah Gardner, Isaac Best, Frankie Kerr, Steve Pura, Christian Chu The following feedback is based on the Interactive Learning Resource draft created by Learning Pod 2. Each member of Pod 3…
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Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Group Breakouts
A core component of our lesson plan is a group breakout activity wherein students can reflect on their lifestyle choices and sleeping habits in small groups. This activity was ideally designed to promote peer learning and give students a space to apply their personal experiences to the course content. However, applying the UDL lens to…
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Blog Post 2 – Inquiry-Based Learning
Inquiry-based learning is an approach to a learning environment where students actively learn by asking questions, exploring new topics (usually real-world problems), and drawing conclusions through self-driven investigation (MacKinnon and Archer-Kuhn 2023, 11). Teachers are the facilitators and students create and build their own understanding of the content. This means that inquiry based-learning cannot occur…
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*✩‧°｡ﾟIntro to Me*✩°･*
Hannah Gardner I’m a 4th year political science student at the University of Victoria. I’m excited to be taking EDCI 335 and be a part of this community. Why did I take this class? I chose this class as one of my three last electives I need to graduate with no expectations. I have been…
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Overcoming Objectivity
Prompt: Learning, Motivation, and Theory “Share a story about how you overcame a learning challenge. Why was it a challenge? What strategies did you use? Use the language you used in this unit” At the end of my first year of University, I made the decision to switch my degree from biology to political science.…