Lesson plan:

How To Overcome Insomnia

Goal

Learners will be able to understand the definition of insomnia, the main causes of insomnia and the way to improve sleeping quality.

Learning Objectives

Learning objectives should be SMART: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-based.

By then end of the lesson, learners will be able to:

  1. Define the scientific term “insomnia”.
  2. Understand the cause of insomnia.
  3. Analyze the main symptoms of insomnia.
  4. Understand the way to improve sleeping quality.
  5. Create a detailed proposal that can overcome insomnia.

Prior Knowledge

  1. Learners will need to know how to use and create a PowerPoint Presentation.
  2. Learners will need to be familiar with how to use Screencasting, iMovie and other software to record screen and edit video.

Delivery

  1. Define the scientific term “insomnia”:
    1. Text instructions
  2. Understand the cause of insomnia:
    1. Text instructions
    2. Image
  1. Analyze the main symptoms of insomnia:
    1. Image
  1. Understand the way to improve sleeping quality: Text instructions
  2. Create a detailed proposal that can overcome insomnia:
  • PowerPoint Presentation
  • Screen capture
  • Video

Evaluation

  • Learners evaluation: learners need to submit their detailed proposal to overcome insomnia.

Here is our link of the video: 

https://sandracc.opened.ca/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=h5p_embed&id=3

Nowadays, more and more people are suffering from insomnia due to many factors such as stress, environment, and bad habit. Our group wants to make this lesson because we want to help people in this stage to improve their quality of sleep. As we know, sleep is the most important thing in our lives and can affect a lot if we do not get enough sleep. A night of good sleep can change the energy and attitude for the entire day.

We developed this lesson online by using the PowerPoint presentation and the video to make it more effective. In this lesson, we emphasized the main point based on the multimedia principle that we learned through this course. We tried to use as much as we can to help the audience engage and learn something by end of the lesson, such as multimedia principle, split-attention principle, modality principle, redundancy principle, signaling principle, coherence principle, segmenting principle, pre-training principle, self-explanation principle, feedback principle, personalization principle, and embodiment principle. We did go through all the principles that we had learned so far before we created this lesson so we tried to use all of the strategies that can help the lesson. We also used the two theories, which are cognitive load theory and dual coding theory to help the audience work on long-term memory by using both visual and verbal information to create a retrieval cue or image in their head.

Due to human individual differences and personal preference, we created some signals to enhance the important content by using big bold letters and changing letters into a different color. I always find this useful tool in helping me study because the different colors will immediately draw my attention and I will tend to look longer. People easily lose attention if the information was overloaded or too many words, so we use the coherence principle and the redundancy principle to reduce the distractions by using limited words combined with images and graphics. In this situation, the audience will not get bored by dry words. Furthermore, the combination of the segmenting principle with the modality principle will give the audience an opportunity to choose whether they like the voice or not. If they are not able to listen to the voice, then they still will get the basic understanding just by watching the page. However, we do prefer the audience learn with the voice on because it will increase the engagement using human voice based on the personalization principle.

Insomnia can be easily treated if people are aware of the cause and how to solve it. Sometimes we can help ourselves out by changing habits and managing our lives. If insomnia gave big trouble for our life we might need a family member to help us or seek therapy. Human behavior will only change if they want to; so I will suggest people who suffer this improve the self-regulation and self-awareness skill first then see what we can do. I really hope this lesson gave a taste of insomnia. We wish to help more people in general.