I chose the CPI standards, 8.1.8.A.1-5 within the Educational Technology standard 8.1 which states that all students will use digital tools to access, manage, evaluate, and synthesize information in order to solve problems individually and collaboratively and to create and communicate knowledge. I chose the 8th grade curriculum within Strand A (Technology Operations and Concepts) because I am currently teaching 4th through 8th grade mathematics. According to this strand, the students should be able to to do a multitude of tasks including professional documents on word, create a database, create a multimedia presentation, generate a spreadsheet and use appropriate tools to accomplish tasks and/or to solve problems.
My concept for incorporating all of these skills would be to have the students break into groups of 3-4 and present a whole lesson using power-point (I could even have be a weekly occurrence). The presentations would have to include a handout to their classmates of a detailed lesson plan ("crib-notes") as well as use excel to create a spreadsheet chart of the material that is going to be taught. As a math teacher, one example of a lesson that I would use would be the introduction of functions. The students would be required to use excel to create an input and output scenario for a function of their choice. Another lesson could be linear graphing and using excel graphs to show how different points can create different slopes. All of these tools can easily be incorporated into a power-point presentation that could be used to promote my student's knowledge of the technology available to them. There are many other possible concepts, but I feel that the idea of using a power-point presentation to teach a lesson, which is something I plan on using personally, would be a great asset for my students to learn as well. SCHAMA SIGNING OFF.
Great ideas but you can go one step further. Have students create tutorials. It is a future tech lab but check this link out. This is a fifth grader and she is teaching other math.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.screencast.com/users/MarcosMath/folders/Percents/media/2b8951b0-c227-4824-9695-506ceb4aa711
As a high school teacher, I am curious to know how much scaffolding you as a teacher do when you implement these different resources like excel, word, etc. in the lower grade levels. My lesson involved breaking students into collaborative groups as well. Technology integration and collaborative learning activities seem to go hand in hand.
ReplyDeleteI thought your idea of breaking the students out and having them teach a whole lessen themselves was a great idea. I was talking with a colleague of mine the other day and said he had a whole class in college that was similar to this style of teaching. Although he said it was frustrating, he learned the most out of any class he ever took.
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