https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpfgaMc51QQ
Prompt 2. The video provides lots of information about long and short term debt cycles, including the pushing factors of these cycles like debt. Since the video is information packed the best way to take in the most information while watching the video is by taking notes. Considering it’s the best way to take in information on the video I feel it is the most likely way learners will respond to watching the video.
Prompt 3. An activity I would suggest after the students finish watching the video would be to draw out the short and long term debt cycles as well as the productivity growth line. After they have accomplished that task they will have to label key points in the graph and explain the forces that cause these movements. This will help reinforce the foundation to later theories developed around the model. This foundation will also help increase the students over all knowledge on economic booms and recessions. The technology used for this activity would be YouTube and simply pen and paper or note taking applications on a tablet or computer.
Prompt 4. Students can take a picture of the work they have done and submit it in an online drop box. If the students used a note taking application, they can save the file as a pdf and hand that into the drop box (E.g. course space drop box). The grader can view the work they have done and leave notes on what they need to improve. The technology students will need is a laptop or a computer.
Prompt 5. The work this activity would cause will be very reasonable. Creating the assignment its self and rubric would be fairly straight forwards considering the linearity of the information. Grading the assignment would take some time varying on the size of the class. For a class of thirty students grading would be very manageable. For a class of one hundred you’d need some help grading the assignments in a timely fashion.
Prompt 6. Some of the video design seemed to try and sell you on Economics, glorifying aspects with funny examples. The video was running a line of an entertainment purpose video other than educational. If the video was slowed down and they put more emphasis on key points it would have been easier to comprehend, also making it easier to take notes and engage with the ideas the video portrays.