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I feel that instructional design is very useful for educators to know how to do. In tomorrow's education, we are heading for an online learning community. I believe that down the road, high schools students will be taking their courses online at home instead of attending a campus. If this comes to past, we will need more educators to know how to implement online learning and design the courses that the students once took in their high school classrooms.

The course I designed is designed for teachers in a professional development setting. I will use this course in particular not as an online course but for teachers at China Elementary School. I have been asked to teach a professional development course through my internship there at China Elementary. With the knowledge I have learned through Instructional Design, I can now give teachers more sources to integrate technology in their classrooms.

I now know that when I do become hired someday, I will try to incorporate as much online learning as I possibly can. Using Schoology has taught me the unique ways of doing assessments online. This is a simple and a fast way you can check for students understanding of the information you have taught them. Although they may know the information, using assessments through online learning can give you the educator a better overview of your students understanding the information.

The tools that I learned to design a lesson by the "backward design" process is very unusual but makes since. You always need a goal in mind. You need to have and end in mind of where you want your students to be before you decide on the activities. So many educators today unfortunately still design lessons only to realize they left something out. I think with the "backward design" process you will be able to cover everything that you need to and know that your students will be able to comprehend what they are being taught. With these kind of lessons and with differentiated instruction, all students will have a fair chance at success.