CS-411: Content Analysis and Lesson Design

Hello!

I'm not sure what th difference is between Content Analysis and Lesson Design. as I had the impression that the Content Analysis would be abou analysig the content of the lesson we would give, and the Lesson Design is an outline of the Lesson. Thus, I do not understand why Content Analysis is before LEsson Design, nor why they are separated.

I suppose I thus have a wrongconception of what each of these are. Could you enlighten me?

Thanks in advance.

Re: Content Analysis and Lesson Design

by Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen - Tuesday, 23 October 2018, 10:06 AM

The content analysis is the knowledge decomposition that you did to understand what the different components of the topics and learning goals. For this, you will have a sequence or tree breaking down the concept or procedure in different parts.

The lesson design is then the breakdown of activities and operators (your drawn orchestration graph) of your lesson. This lesson design should be grounded in the content analysis since you need to think about what you want to teach and the best way to teach this. This means it should also be grounded in the concepts that have been presented in lecture. You should justify why you are choosing the activities that you are and the social plane that they are on given what you are trying to teach.