Merrill’s First Principles

Merrill shows five principle which promote learning

1 The learning should be relate to real world problems

2 Existing knowledge is activate as a foundation of new knowledge

3 Course must be demonstrate through both visually or storytelling

4 Allowing them to apply new information

5 New knowledge is applied to learner’s world.

When I took the Economic history class. We had a group project of presentations. I have experience with sharing real-world problems from an economic perspective. I searched cost of conflict, especially with Sudan. Sudan has experienced a civil war due to ethnic conflict. I demonstrated how much the actual damage and the average salary have dropped.

File:South Sudan 022.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
This photo took in 2012 in South Sudan

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GDP per capita in Sudan

The massive decline in GDP per capita showed when there is a huge conflict and massacre in 1991. This means the annual salary has been dropped from $1668 to $320. When there is War, there is the destruction of the firm and infrastructures.

  1. real-world problems

2. I applied into economic perspective with existing knowledge

3.There is a story behind the civil wars I showed them with presentations

I found this is more engaging and it is easier to stick to brains.

Reference

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_Sudan_022.jpg

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/SDN/sudan/gdp-per-capita#:~:text=Sudan%20gdp%20per%20capita%20for,a%2024.19%25%20increase%20from%202020.