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tags: cd
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# 20240220 MDF meeting

## updates

## activity goals:
* develop multimodal scaffolding activities that allow you to collect instances of students learning
* and assess that learn (i.e., do something with that documentation)
* consider ways to engage students in generative learning
* use databases to track scaffolding activities/things that students do

## activity steps:
* each group will choose one of the eight generative learning strategies outlined by Fiorella and Mayer
* summarizing
* self-testing
* mapping
* drawing
* imagining
* self-explaining
* teaching
* enacting
* each group will choose a multimodal form (explainer video, video essay, podcast, virtual gallery, graphical abstract, scientific poster)
* identify a KEY MOVE that this form makes
* each group will design a scaffolding activity that would promote generative learning in a course they're working with as an MDF
* and that integrates SOME multimodal move
* maybe using your phone to practice getting voiceover
* or having students illustrate something
* etc.
* and that gets students to undertake a meaningful act of making in a multimodal form (in a way that helps them take a step toward a final capstone project like a video essay or podcast)
* the LLUFs will test these!

## as you build
* [add to an airtable base](https://airtable.com/appmXdzuqpgCenqkw/tblxhKJiDlkkXIKfQ/viwJHRPc2pnulALUD?blocks=hide)
* moves (activities you'd have students do)
* generative learning strategies
* forms
* disciplines?
* courses?
* thinking of this as a menu for students to choose from
* the kind of thing you could share with them and they could use to guide their learning/experimentation/etc.

## reading/references:
* [LL scaffolding activity examples](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xYaWtZzoIFAsBVjFDp8EbJRABTgBX9JPseMeq3IbCxs/edit?usp=sharing)
* Eight Ways to Promote Generative Learning, Logan Fiorella and Richard E. Mayer