Redundancy+Discussion+Team

Moduel 3 Disscusion Teams: Marion Carter, Cynthia Harrison, and Melinda Duckett

Redundancy Principle  ﻿[]   ﻿Click on the Freight Train story once you get to the website   The story includes narriation, text, music, and animation. This is clearly a violation of the Redundancy Principle where the philosophy is "less is more." Narration and animation alone is enough for a video or presentation to prevent memory overload. Melinda Duckett

[|Schoolhouse Rock "Interjections"]
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==== **The video presents animation, music, narration and text. A long time educational video, it could be considered cognitive overload in its presentation. Some things to be considered are whether eliminating the redundant material is better for the message or whether it harms the learning process; and does it feed into the learning preferences hypothesis?** ====

Hi, Everyone!

As a firm Schoolhouse Rock student, I still remember some of those songs and their association with the different skills they teach. However, I am a very visual and kinesthetic person. I did notice that the YouTube video adds the text on the screen and the original movie just has the interjections as the text. That is limiting some of the text for the learning process and using only those words that help with mastering the skill. I am going to review everything and post more today. I apologize for not being here sooner. It has been a crazy weekend and beginning of the new week, so far. Let me see what I can come up with to go along with what you have already found.

Cynthia

P.S. Just an FYI for me as a visual learner. I find the Mayer video distracting because there is constant movement in the background while he is talking. Then you have the change to the text, but that background and those screens continually rotating really distract me from what he is saying, plus he has the onscreen text and the narration and the animation in the background going on. Okay...will hush about that now and move on....

One site that I found lacks the animation and the narration required by the redundancy principle is this link to funbrain.com. The link takes you to Diary of a Wimpy Kid which can be read online, but it has no animation or narration. It is just the text online with the illustrations. I found my students liked the book, but they did not particularly reading it on this site:

My example disappeared! Here it is again: [|Wimpy Reading?]

The next example that I have is a great site, but it gets a little too busy trying to look at the animation and follow the highlighted words of the text and listen to the narration. Please check it out and read How Mona Lisa Got Her Smile, when she is milking the cow, try to watch that and follow the text and listen all at the same time.

[|Mona Lisa Smile]

Those are my examples. Please let me know which ones you want to use. I am open to discuss it. Cynthia

Cynthia, I love Schoolhouse Rocks videos! However, I didn't notice until now how busy and distracting they can be. I especially took notice to the narration in the brackets stating exactly what the character was doing (wailing, coughing, woman singing). The music is kind of catchy, but it may turn the attention away from what the students should be learning from the video.

This is very true! I love them, but they may provide a good example of what not to do, especially the YouTube version. I am great with any of the examples we have on this page. I have a sinus infection and I am sort of resting today, but I will check in again later. I think we can post any of the two. It is your choice. We have some good examples and we are ready to go. Just let me know if you want me to post or if one of you will be posting.

I will talk to you later today.

Cynthia

I posted two of our examples. I added our names to the post. Please read over it and change what you think is necessary. I basically copied your description stated above and added one or two sentences. I hope that was okay. I hope that you feel better. My son is sick too with a very bad cold and has been running a high fever for about two days now. I hoping that he gets better soon so that I can get some rest.

Excellent posts everyone. I wonder if the redundancy principle on different cognitive levels are comparatively looked upon as negative stimulus versus positive influence?

Marion