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Direct Instruction and Cooperative Learning are perhaps the two most commonly encountered learning methods at Uvic, and they can also be effectively utilized in our topic.

The main idea of Direct Instruction is for a lecturer to lead the explanation, demonstration, and clarification of students’ confusion. This passive learning is sometimes not the most high-quality way of learning, as students do not receive knowledge out of interest, but rather learn information provided by others. But students can clearly know what they should do when receiving guidance and learn useful content in a short period of time. In our topic, teaching students how to accurately search for keywords can quickly help them understand how to achieve high-precision AI conversations.

Cooperative Learning, on the other hand, allows students to explore and share experiences together to make up for their shortcomings in a certain topic, thus achieving comprehensive learning. This mutual assistance experience can increase students’ impression of the knowledge they have learned. In our learning, let students explore together the learning outcomes that different search methods can achieve, and finally summarize the most suitable and efficient learning method about AI for themselves.

In summary, both Direct Instruction and Cooperative Learning are suitable learning methods for our topic. By combining Direct Instruction and Cooperative Learning, we can learn how to efficiently ask AI for the information we need while finding a suitable way for ourselves.

In Therese Taruc’s article, I really enjoyed the understanding of Direct Instruction and its application. I think using Direct Instruction is definitely the most suitable way to learn about Alzheimer’s disease, a disease that is so difficult to understand its principles so far. Because only by summarizing the experience of predecessors can new and useful conclusions be attempted.

In Melody Hung’s article, I also found that the encouraging nature of Cooperative Learning, along with the use of communication and critical thinking, can have the same positive impact on our different learning topics. I think we can also combine Direct Instruction with their topics to gain a more comprehensive understanding.