Technology Lesson Planning
Directions: This table is intended to help you explicitly evaluate your options for selecting the best mix of pedagogy and technology to teach content. List the activity types you want to include in the lesson and 2-3 technology options that could work. Then list the affordances and constraints of each technology/activity type combination.
Step 1:
Identify Content to be Taught Step 2:
Plan Activities to do During the Instruction Step 3:
Identify Technologies that Could be Used
Identify Technology Strengths
Identify Technology Weaknesses
Students will understand that the appearance of the moon changes in a predictable cycle as it orbits Earth and as Earth rotates on its axis.
- Design an investigation, construct a chart, and collect data depicting the phases of the moon. Activity 1: Look at the moon phases over the course of the month using stellarium.
Design an investigation. Stellarium.
Interesting view of the moon and its phases.
Kidspiration
Activity 2: Research the names of the moon phases.
Collect data. Send them to: http://www.enchantedlearning.com
/subjects/astronomy/moon
/Phases.shtml
Or
http://home.hiwaay.net/
~krcool/Astro/moon/moonphase
To learn about the phases. Visuals, interactive, straight-forwad information. Time consuming, boring, easily distracted.
Activity 3: Construct a month-long moon phase chart.
Construct a chart. Microsoft Word
Clear. Not interactive, difficult to put the pictures in.
Excell
Online game: Lunar cycle challenge. http://www.sciencelinks.com/intera
ctives/moon/moon_challenge/moon
_challenge.html Interactive, creates opportunity for the students to test what they have learned. Limited access to computers for each student.
Activity 4: Depict the phases.
Model moon phases with dough. Interactive, fun. Messy.
Model moon phases on poster. Easy to construct, visual. Time consuming.
Flip book of the moon phases. See the changes of the moon, active.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Week 9
What are some ways you can tell that you have successfully integrated technology into your lesson?
Students enjoy the technology and perform better and seem to learn more than when the technology is not integrated
What do you feel technology should accomplish in order to be a legitimate addition to your lesson?
Successful integration of technology motivates students to perform better and participate in the lesson. It is not a distraction from learning, but an addition to it.
What indicators can tell you whether or not you have chosen an appropriate technology for your lesson?
Student participation, reactions, and positive performance.
Students enjoy the technology and perform better and seem to learn more than when the technology is not integrated
What do you feel technology should accomplish in order to be a legitimate addition to your lesson?
Successful integration of technology motivates students to perform better and participate in the lesson. It is not a distraction from learning, but an addition to it.
What indicators can tell you whether or not you have chosen an appropriate technology for your lesson?
Student participation, reactions, and positive performance.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
TPCK
It can be hard to integrate technology appropriately for some teachers. They have to focus on the content.
The main idea of the article is that teachers learn about different technologies and how to use them appropriately in the best way possible.
Teachers need to be able to use technology to support their content. Technology should be used to support activities.
It gives good advice as to how to integrate technology into the curriculum, as well as how to learn about it.
The main idea of the article is that teachers learn about different technologies and how to use them appropriately in the best way possible.
Teachers need to be able to use technology to support their content. Technology should be used to support activities.
It gives good advice as to how to integrate technology into the curriculum, as well as how to learn about it.
Week 7
Technology can help create dynamic experiences for students in many ways. I have seen technology used to help students interact with whatever is going on in the classroom. It gets them engaged in what the class is doing, especially if it's technology they have no access to anywhere else. It can help students hear and see things that allow them to interact, at least partially, with cultures different than their own. Some technologies help students to focus on concepts. I have seen students get excited about the opportunity to use technology.
Technology can also detract from learning. While many great things are available through technology, a virtual field trip is no substitute for experiencing things first hand. A digital story, while it may be fun, is sometimes not as good as just hearing a story read. Technology can be a distraction from learning when students and teachers get too hung up on using it and feel they need to integrate it into everything. Technology should be a tool to aid learning, not a substitute for real, quality teaching.
I have seen smartboards used very effectively in 2 different classroom settings. In one class, the teacher uses the smartboard to take role, causing students to notice their peers, and to talk about the weather and the date. These things could be done without technology, but the use of technology makes ordinary activities much more exciting to students. In the other classroom, the teacher used the smartboard to have students spell words, teaching them letters and sounds. I have also seen fun voicechanging toys used to encourage severe special ed students to talk in a severe special ed classroom. These technologies and others are used very effectively in classrooms.
Technology can also detract from learning. While many great things are available through technology, a virtual field trip is no substitute for experiencing things first hand. A digital story, while it may be fun, is sometimes not as good as just hearing a story read. Technology can be a distraction from learning when students and teachers get too hung up on using it and feel they need to integrate it into everything. Technology should be a tool to aid learning, not a substitute for real, quality teaching.
I have seen smartboards used very effectively in 2 different classroom settings. In one class, the teacher uses the smartboard to take role, causing students to notice their peers, and to talk about the weather and the date. These things could be done without technology, but the use of technology makes ordinary activities much more exciting to students. In the other classroom, the teacher used the smartboard to have students spell words, teaching them letters and sounds. I have also seen fun voicechanging toys used to encourage severe special ed students to talk in a severe special ed classroom. These technologies and others are used very effectively in classrooms.
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