Module 3-Group Activity

Signaling Principle Violation- S. Gudjonis

Mayer states, “People learn better when cues that highlight the organization of the essential material are added.” In the video a teacher raps the process to calculating perimeter. While the information may be accurate there is no evidence of the signaling principle. Four areas that are common features of signaling include outline, headings, vocal emphasis, and pointer words. This video is lacking in all four areas as there are no visual references for learners to attach meaning.

http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=157&title=Mrs__Burk_Perimeter_Rap

Signaling Principle Violation-H. Wilson

Reducing extraneous load continues to be an integral part of Mayer’s cognitive load theory. Providing learners with clear information, and creating multimedia that is clear and only includes pertinent information is important. Principles that are relative to this portion of Mayer’s theory are:

• Coherence principle:
• Redundancy principle:
• Signaling principle:
• Spatial contiguity principle:
• Temporal contiguity principle:

The signaling principle states “People learn better when the words include cues about the organization of the presentation” (Mayer, 2009). When creating presentations words and images need to be highlighted in a way that the learner will make a clear connection to what they are seeing.

http://www.kscience.co.uk/animations/anim_1.htm

This website includes several animations that are good, and can be used within a lesson as a collaborative or individual lesson. With that said, I feel that this site still violates Mayer’s signaling principle. His principle seems clear on using words as cues to guide learning. This site does not provide many text clues, and the text that it includes does not guide the learners process or point out what the main idea of the activity is.