South African History Online

The Constructivist teaching approach describes learning as a change in meaning constructed from experience. The constructivist perspective defines knowledge as a subjective interpretation of experience. Thus, knowledge construction is a process of thinking about and interpreting experience. Because each individual has a unique set of experiences, seen in their way, each individual has their own unique knowledge. Therefore learning is said to have occurred when our knowledge is changed in a way that allows us to interpret our experiences in a more complete or refined way, that is when we are able to see something we could not see before. For the South African foundation Phase learner in the context of South African History this means being able to change their knowledge and interoperate and experience South African History in a more complete way than before

The Constructivist teaching approach describes learning as a change in meaning constructed from experience. The constructivist perspective defines knowledge as a subjective interpretation of experience. Thus, knowledge construction is a process of thinking about and interpreting experience. Because each individual has a unique set of experiences, seen in their way, each individual has their own unique knowledge. Therefore learning is said to have occurred when our knowledge is changed in a way that allows us to interpret our experiences in a more complete or refined way, that is when we are able to see something we could not see before. For the South African foundation Phase learner in the context of South African History this means being able to change their knowledge and interoperate and experience South African History in a more complete way than before

The Constructivist teaching approach describes learning as a change in meaning constructed from experience. The constructivist perspective defines knowledge as a subjective interpretation of experience. Thus, knowledge construction is a process of thinking about and interpreting experience. Because each individual has a unique set of experiences, seen in their way, each individual has their own unique knowledge. Therefore learning is said to have occurred when our knowledge is changed in a way that allows us to interpret our experiences in a more complete or refined way, that is when we are able to see something we could not see before. For the South African foundation Phase learner in the context of South African History this means being able to change their knowledge and interoperate and experience South African History in a more complete way than before

Instruction Design is the systematic and reflective processes of translating principles of learning and instruction into plans of instructional materials, activities, information resources and evaluation. An organised way of developing instructional materials or programs is the ADDIE Model. The ADDIE model is a systematic instructional design model consisting of five phases: (1) Analysis (2) Design (3) Development (4) Implementation (5) Evaluation

In the analysis phase, the instructional problem is clarified, the instructional goals and objectives are established and the learning environment and learner's existing knowledge and skills are identified. Foundation phase learners In the context of South Africa ? South African History, the learners know about apartheid and Mandela but they dont know many details Use computer with guidance Limited typing and mouse skills Technology: computer and cell phone games Motivated to learn to use computers

The design phase deals with learning objectives, assessment instruments, exercises, content, subject matter analysis, lesson planning and media selection.

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The Department of Education has given me the task to develop and design and create an educational website simplifying the South African History for the Foundation Phase learner. Timeframe: 3 months Budget: R10 000 Using Microsoft word i have to research the information and write the texts which the web designer will use for the website Together with the web designer i will use the texts written in the text component phase and incorporate graphics, video, animation, hyperlinks, and navigation buttons. The web designer will assist in creating the graphics sound, and video.

Text Components

Authoring

Assembling of the pieces

All components created so far should be placed in the appropriate order References, contact details, help pages, guides Software like Macromedia Authotrware will be used by the programmer, however the choice of software will be left up to the programmers as they are the professionals Software like Dreamweaver and Microsoft Front Page will be used by the web developer, however the choice of software will be left up to the web developers as they are the professionals Software like Photoshop Corel Drawwill be used by the web developer, however the choice of software will be left up to the web developers as they are the professionals

Support Material

Programming Software

Web Authoring Software

Image-editing Software

These phases work together and are inter related The aim of these phases are to evaluate the effectiveness of all the pieces Alpha Testing: Alpha-testing is the in-house testing of the product. This means the website goes life and you test it together with your web development team Beta Testing: Beta-testing is the first real implementation of the website with real users / learners. The feedback from these learners is essential for the improvement of the website. The learners are interviewed to get their feedback. First learners are selected and the website is explained to them. The learners prior knowledge is also determined. Revision: The user / learner feedback is incorporated into the website

Testing