By persisting on practicing shooting and layups, my shooting percentage stays constant above 50%, and my layup rates are also staying high, which is considered good for a non-professional basketball player. Here is my statistics for last week:
| 3-pointers | jump shots | layups | |
| Day 1 | 44/80 | 50/80 | 66/80 |
| Day 2 | 50/80 | 51/80 | 61/80 |
| Day 3 | 55/80 | 56/80 | 70/80 |
For next week, I’ll make my plan more challenging than this week. I will make myself shoot a hundred balls and performing a hundred layups for each practicing drills. This is slightly more intensive practicing which can help me improve towards the next level. Hopefully, I can gain a lot of useful experience while training myself with more intensive planning.
From this weekly learning in EDCI335, I learned that educational technology may not necessary be a good thing by learning an example of a “mind-reading robot tutor” named Knewton. However, I think this kind of learning and tutoring technology is not useless. The failure of Knewton doesn’t mean that kind of technology doesn’t work, it just could mean algorithms were not created decently and the computation ability were not fully activated. According to the Moore’s law, technology is growing exponentially fast. I believe in the future, mind-reading robot tutor can be popular, and can take over some kinds teaching jobs. In the article, the author also says that “this is not good because learning is more complicated than mere attention”. This is correct in the aspect that learning is not only about attention, it is a more complicated things that can also be related to IQ, social aspects, interactions, mood, etc. However, the software currently can only built to track students’ attention, which doesn’t mean it can’t do all the other things in the future. Computers would be much more powerful in the future which I believe can achieve the ability equivalent to thousands of Knewton adding together.
What week #4 readings also reminds me of learning basketball is the basketball shooting machine shown by figure 1.
This machine is used for training basketball players’s shooting ability. Simply speaking, when you shoot a ball, the machine will collect the ball you shoot, and then pass the ball back to you. If you want more information about the specific description on how this machine works, you can click this. This machine is also an example of educational technology. It has a timing device and works as an automatic rebounder. It creates the situation where players can develop their shooting skills off the move and with game like intensity. This is a good example of educational technology as you can practice shooting by yourself, which help players get up more shots in less time. If I can use this in my practice, My shooting skill would be enhanced a lot of time faster.
How Internet Affect my Learning in Basketball
Internet plays a crucially important role in my learning of basketball. This is because the teaching content is increasingly open and available freely on the Internet. I can search the basketball skills to design a course for myself based on my personal interests, creating my own online personal learning environments. Bates introduced 6 key building blocks for media. Those are face-to-face teaching, text, graphics, audio, video, and computing. When I was learning basketball skills, the main types of media I used were text, graphics, and video. I read text of description for a certain basketball skill and others’ comment about that skill. I saw graphics in terms of diagrams and photos. Basketball coaches like to attach those graphics in their tutorial blogs in order to better explain different skills. Also, I train myself according to my research on those skills by watching several Youtube videos. All my self-learning in basketball are happened on the Internet. Therefore, it is so true that the Internet is an extremely powerful medium as there are tons of information on the internet transferred by a combination of tools and different types of media.
References:
- https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/10/13/437265231/meet-the-mind-reading-robo-tutor-in-the-sky
- https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/knewton-gone-larger-threat-remains?utm_source=Academica+Top+Ten&utm_campaign=62fac2c01a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_05_07_04_40&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b4928536cf-62fac2c01a-51939269
- https://www.eastbayteamsales.com/product/model:298614/korney-boards-aides-6000-gun-standard-shoot-a-way
- https://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/part/chapter-8-understanding-technology/
- https://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/part/chapter-8-pedagogical-differences-between-media/
Erik Yu 
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