MICRO LEARNING PROJECT
Google Sheets
Google Sheets is a Google feature that allows a user to create and share spreadsheets.
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These spreadsheets are stored online within the user's account and can be shared as a link, embedded into a website or page, and Google offers templates and an intuitive, user-friendly platform.
GOOGLE SHEETS
Why did I choose Google Sheets?
I have only minimally used Google Sheets in the past and thought it could be a useful tool to understand and apply to this portfolio. Specifically, Wix does not have many options for embedding tables within their designed template site versions without coding experience.
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I find Google Sheets to be visually appealing and simple to create and share quickly, which are all important features for my life and future career.
Learning Theory Connection to Google Sheets
Using Google Sheets could be approached from several different learning theory perspectives. Whether learning how to use Google Sheets or utilizing the platform as a larger learning project, learning is occurring.
From a Behaviorist perspective, there is a memorization or positive reinforcement aspect to creating any spreadsheet. By knowing and using basic spreadsheet functions like filling a cell, or using a function like sum of a row of figures, a learner is rewarded or conditioned to know how to approach a spreadsheet platform. When a learner wants a spreadsheet to display specific data sets, he or she is rewarded for knowing which elements of the spreadsheet software to use in certain instances by producing an easy to understand and accurate table.
A Constructivist might use Google Sheets to develop his or her own learning goals or develop an evaluation tool for learning from this specific approach. For example, a Google Sheet is an excellent way to create a rubric for learning. This rubric could explain how a learner might reason, reflect, or question a learning topic. Google Sheets is also an excellent collaborative platform where multiple people can contribute to one shared data set.
A Cognitivist or Connectivist might use Google Sheets to help a learner maximize his or her Cognitive Load or develop the best framework for training. By evaluating a learning problem, this educator might chunk information into topics and sub-topics and use Google Sheets as an outline. The educator might keep track of learner’s current knowledge of a topic and determine what still needs to be presented or experienced within the cells or table in a Google Sheet.
An educator who teaches adults, from an Andragogy perspective, might use Google Sheets to help their learners get involved in their own instruction and determine relevance to their own lives by using the cells to organize goals and steps required to reach them. Google Sheets could also serve as an authentic assessment if a learning problem can be solved, in part, with visual representations of data.
Google Sheets was a great platform to choose for my microlearning project, and I’m sure I will use it again for my own learning objectives, but also as I develop solutions for other learners.