ImagiLearning and Tranceformational Learning

For this week's assignment, I utilized the tranceformational learning principles and tried to weave them into my ImagiLearning environment.  The different principles are:

As you can see, each of these tranceformational principles (Authentic, Attention, Together, Emotion, Objectives, Immersion and Learning) are essential to the implementation of 21st century learning.  I feel that these principles are important to ensure that every student has a full grasp of what is trying to be taught in a virtual environment, and I believe that immersion is key to the overall learning experience.

Authentic
I think that each lesson should be as authentic as possible so that students will be able to believe what they are trying to learn.  

Attention
Attention is a two way street for both students and instructors as the students must pay attention to learn and the instructor has to pay special attention to the lesson that they are trying to teach so that it is understood by students.  

Together
Together is also for instructors and students so that everyone understands what is being taught and is on the same page. 

Emotion
There must be some amount of emotion involved with both teaching a lesson and receiving a lesson by the students.  I think that everyone must care about what they are trying to teach and students should care about what they learn.

Objectives
There must be an objective to both what is being taught and what is being learned.  If there is no objective in mind then it will not be beneficial to instructors or students.

Immersion
I believe that it is essential for both students and instructors to be immersed in what they are trying to learn in a traditional and virtual environment.

Learning
Learning is key in the overall success of what is being taught and what is being learned.  

My bird sanctuary
For this weeks assignment, I decided to create an environment where students could be immersed in the same environment that they are trying to learn about.  I utilized the grass template in the Holodeck system and then built the walls, bought plants, uploaded pictures of state birds and built stumps for a class to sit on and discuss what they had learned after each student has had a chance to step on the ImagiLearning platform.  I decided to create questions by giving the name of the state birds and then asking for students to pick the appropriate state that it represents.  

I created several notecards for the good and bad answers and put them into the ImagiLearning system.  Although I have made several attempts, I have been unsuccessful in getting the ImagiLearning system to work as it should.  I will make a few more attempts to see if I can get it working correctly.

Here are some pictures of my bird sanctuary and its contents:

I think that the ImagiLearning environment could be very useful to use in a virtual environment as the possibilities are endless as to how a lesson can be taught.