Digital Badge:
Chapter 4
After reading chapter four of
Transforming Learning with New Technologies. The most important concepts I
found interesting were:
Academic Content
(What to Teach)
As teachers and
future teachers we are going to be making choices about our academic
concept. What is academic concept? Academic concept are the facts, skills and
understandings we as teachers are going to share with our students. It
important that the school systems guidelines, the state and national curriculum
frameworks define and in some cases orders what will be educated. As teachers, it important that our lesson development connects to local curriculum
frameworks , which are aligned to state and national standards. Meanwhile, since there no local curriculum spells out teachers decide what they will be teaching everyday. Technology plays
an essential role in assisting teachers, such as answering them "What to
teach" question. There digital content available on the internet it
includes a vast connection of curriculum resources and information. Using
internet search engines, online encyclopedia, blogs, wikis and other technology
tools both the student and teacher can gain access to powerful new ways to
explore and regain information.
Teaching Goals, Method ,Procedures (How to Teach)
Teacher don't just decide on the academic concept. But
they also decide the teaching goals, methods, and procedures they will use with
their classroom/classes. What are goals? Goals are the reason why a
lesson is being taught. The Student learns new information that he or she would
implied in their lives or can use in the future. Methods are the instructional
strategies teachers used to convey academic concepts to student (large groups
or small group discussions) case study, creative writing, reflection journals
and learning games. Procedures are the scheduling and grouping of
students by teachers doing a lesson and the decision of how much time to
spend on each activity. Everyday teachers are combining their
classroom goals, methods and procedures. However, academic content, goals,
methods and procedures equally support each other in a dynamic process of
lesson development. Another support of lesson development is technology.
Technology supports in a variety of ways such as the following
presentation Software: wikis, teacher developing websites, blogs and Web Quest.The video above demonstrates a teacher creating a lesson plan in which show what he or she wants their student to learn.
Learning
Assessments (Knowing What Students Have Learned)
Resources:
Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.
The Revised 5 Minute Lesson Plan. (2013, May 23). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV4jo9f9ZWU
Teachers have many obligations .One of them is the
Learning assessments . Learning assessments occur before, during and after the
teaching lessons. The learning lesson enable the teachers to evaluate student
in what they had learned at the end of the lesson, what's
the student reaction as the class lesson unfolds and diagnostics what students
already knows. Teacher include multiple-choice ,short answer essays , oral
discussions class participation, portfolios and performances, all of which
provide evidence of what students have learned and are able to do as a result
of the teaching. Technology also support
the learning assessment by the teacher providing their students with electronic
tests , quizzes , grade keeping software, and online surveys, ect.
Resources:
Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.
The Revised 5 Minute Lesson Plan. (2013, May 23). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV4jo9f9ZWU
Great summary on the lesson plan components as provided in the chapter reading - remember, though, that the focus of the blog postings are to engage in the material in a reflective manner. That means you need to personalize the writing to think about how you would use it in your future classroom or how you have seen it used in your observations or past experience. You can also reflect on the material by asking questions about it and perhaps finding the answer by asking others or researching, etc. In other words, it is much deeper than summarizing what you read.
ReplyDeleteYour video also enhanced the content nicely (love that animated software!) - looking for your own created digital web 2.0 tool for those extra points!