Do/Don’t Cards

It provides a comparative display where the learner can find the correct and incorrect ways to do something or conceive a particular idea in a joint visual context.

It displays as follows:

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To use it in Moodle, click on the Components for Learning button In the Atto editor and select the item Do/Don’t Cards:

Use cases

In a practical context (most often), to clarify the right/wrong way to do something. It anticipates a potential problem and provides a solution.
In a theoretical context, to help the learner appreciate the differences between a good and a wrong approach to a particular concept or idea. The component highlights a specific matter that could be prone to be misunderstood by the learner, then shows the correct way to address it.

Is discouraged…

To use the Do card alone. While the opposite approach -using the Don’t card only- could work as a warning based on the usual errors and misconceptions, displaying the Do card alone wouldn’t have much sense since an explained concept or procedure is expected to be correct per se.

Examples

Confusion arises because the British system is different, and the American system may automatically look wrong to you, but it is simply one of the frequently broken rules of written English in America: The period and comma go inside the quotation marks.

The people of the pine barrens are often called “pineys.”

The people of the pine barrens are often called “pineys”.

Style for Students Online by Joe Schall, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University – Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike