SAFE:

a survival planning educational

technology
Assignments 6.1 & 6.2:
The research plan & the final product pitch
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Design and development of educational technology
Eugenio Jacobo Hernndez Valdelamar
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Content

Product presentation

What is it about?

Intervention & learning goals

Learning principles (why is it good?)

SAFE = process + simulation + products

Assessment design

Research plan

Project risks

Project impacts

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SAFE presentation

Have you heard the news about natural disasters around the
world? People are not prepared to face something like that.
SAFE is an educational technology that let people (teens &
adults) make their own survival planning to learn to be
prepared, react and prevail in case of an emergency or a
disaster.
Do you know what to do in case of a disaster? Are you
prepared?
Well, with this product people will play the role of a risk analyst,
and in the process they will learn how to be prepared.
After all, climate changes are a serious threat around the world.

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Intervention: survival planning

SAFE is an educational technology that seeks to:

contribute on developing a risk prevention culture

provide the educational community with an innovative and
interactive tool for preparedness, response and recovery in
case of a disaster
Allow community members to have a vision of how to face
threads

Target users:

Students, teachers, parents, workers, everybody!

Recomended age: 12+

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Learning goals

SAFE pretends that participants can get some skills related to

real disaster risk analysts.
After using SAFE, participants will be able to:

Identify threats and community's vulnerabilities.

Identify and evaluate disaster risks

Develop a risk map

Elaborate safety/prevention plans (family, school, work)

Elaborate reaction plans (family, school, work)

Elaborate recovery plans (family, school, work)

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Recognize the importance of preparedness to face potential

disasters
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SAFE = process + simulations +

products
SAFE products

SAFE tasks & simulations

SAFE process

SAFE is a process that lets you make basic risk management and provides a
framework that allows the participants plan to face a disaster.
SAFE is a set of learning tasks and simulations that allow participants to interact
and share knowledge.
SAFE let the participants generate their own risk maps, plans and other artifacts.
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SAFE products
Risk IAE
(identification, analysis
and evaluation)

Risk map

Prevention, reaction
& recovery plans

These products are generated by participants during sessions. In order to help

participant to improve their products, an exemplary response must be
commented after the participants products presentation.

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Assessment design

Assessment categories to apply:

Meaningful context

Performance assessment (formative)

Participants own community characteristics and risks

Performance tasks

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Participants will perform actual risk management activities,

where they will generate some products.
Participants will practice skills like: taking notes, each task
requires working with other participants, analyzing data,
developing hypothesis, giving an oral presentation of their
results.
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Task structure (generic)

Activity goals are explained, base concepts presented.

As a group, participants must discuss and share their context
knowledge about the activity inputs (for example, for a set of
threats, they must have information about effects)

Each student must take notes about activity inputs.

Activity product is presented.

In small groups, participants develop the activity product.

Each group develops an oral presentation

Each participant makes adjustments to the activity product

As a group, products are reviewed and and compared to an

exemplary response.

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Research plan

Research questions:

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How much attendees know about how to prepare

and respond to a disaster ?
Is there a change in attitude among attendees in
relation to disasters?
How do they applied their prior knowledge to the
proposed process?

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Research strategy

Qualitative research

Qualitative data include: observations, conducting

interviews, conducting document analysis, and analyzing
participant products

Observe and participate in regular activities.

Data are collected via words or pictures

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Care about participants' perceptions; question participants in

depth about their beliefs, attitudes, and thought processes.
May use case study

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Project risks

Process definition: SAFE process needs to be

based on standards, but this may lead to
bureaucratic formats
Training: too formal methods and products
require serious training for facilitators;
complexity may be handled using a game like
approach.

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Project impacts

Improve the culture of risk prevention

Create social awareness of the importance of
being prepared for a disaster
Having people with knowledge and skills to
respond to a disaster

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