integrating technologies in instructional environments lauren cifuentes
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Integrating Technologies in Instructional Environments
Lauren Cifuentes
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Shakespeares’ Life and Times-- CD-Rom by Intellimation: Student’s Role
orchestrate your own scene placing actors and props on virtual stage and directing character’s movements;
write essay describing influences of personal/historical events on W.S.’s writing;
create multimedia presentation describing defining characteristics of Elizabethan lit., art, architecture, & music.
One workstation in a unit on Romeo and Juliet might include the above packaged instruction with instructions to choose from one of the activities described.
Teacher’s Role
design and or install multiple activities;
assure that all students are challenged, none lost;
provide content mentorship; coach students (management); evaluate students.
Restructuring
Departures from conventional practice that fundamentally change the roles of teachers, administrators, students, and parents working with schools
REFORM: PREPARING STUDENTS IN SCHOOLS
Environments where effective strategies are activated
a variety of methods
a variety oftechnology
Effective Strategies
Time on task individualized pacing individualized feedback performance based instruction cooperative learning peer tutoring
TechnologyThe replicable ‘means’, forms or
vehicles by which instruction is formatted, stored, and delivered to the learner.
MethodsAny way to shape information that
activates, supplants or compensates for the cognitive processes necessary for achievement or motivation
TEACHING METHODS SURVEYRank the methods below: 1= most used, 2= second most used, etc.
Lecture
Demonstration
Questioning/tutorial
Discussion
Student performance
Self-directed study
PackagedInstruction
Other; please describe
Successful teachers use student performance as their primary method.
Technology Frees Teachers to-- motivate students to spend more time on
task interacting with content; implement student centered,
individualized activities; spend more time with students one-on-
one and in small groups; support performance based instruction,
cooperative learning, and peer tutoring
Your Assignment is to Create a Classroom of Workstations
Work areas where students conduct activities independently or cooperatively.
Remember learning centers?
Rationale for Workstations
Student-centered; cooperative learning, full
participation; multi-delivery systems; individual responsibility; motivation of technology and
interactivity.
During Design Phase Describe Each Workstation --
Desired outcomes Technology resources Processes students will go through
(methods) Guidance you will provide Product(s) required Evaluation procedures
Romeo and Juliet/West Side Story--Videodisc by Sunburst
Remember the unit on Romeo and Juliet? A second workstation in that unit might include a videodisc. During creation of your media resource list find resources to support your instructional environment.
Shakespeare & the Varieties of Human Experience-- Audiotape lecture by America’s Superstar Teachers.
A third workstation in the Romeo and Juliet unit.
Shakespeare for Students: Critical Interpretations for High Schoolers-- Book
A fourth workstation in the Romeo and Juliet unit.
Shakespeare and the Globe--Videocassette by Films for the Humanities and Sciences
A fifth workstation in the Romeo and Juliet unit.
Student Made Video of Play--Video Camera
A sixth workstation in the Romeo and Juliet unit.
Research Paper-- Internet
A seventh workstation in the Romeo and Juliet unit.
Classroom Management
No one workstation can have another workstation as its prerequisite; students need to be able to rotate through the workstations in any sequence.
Each workstation should require students to work the same amount of time.
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The Romeo and Juliet unit.
If you were to implement your unit you would assess students using portfolio assessment methods by keeping a folder to document each student’s
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Presentation monitor from ceiling
Another floor-plan.