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Indiana academic standards

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Hands-on activityIndiana Academic Standards

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Hands-on Activity: Indiana Academic Standards (15 Minutes)

• ULA Demo for locating Standards & Resources• Subject Area Group Work & Individual Submission

• Visit the Indiana State Standards website or Learning Connection.

• Find a standard that is relevant to your future teaching preferably with resources with your group members

• Discuss the questions on the Google Form with your group

• Answer the questions on the Google Form and submit it individually

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Shift #1: “Digital Natives”

From this … … to this?

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When Shifts Collide

• Standards and accountability• We talked about students (so-called “digital

natives”)• Now, let’s talk about administrators,

authorities, etc.• You are in the middle.

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No Child Left Behind (NCLB)

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Key elements of NCLB

• States must develop their own accountability systems (largely standardized tests).

• Schools must make “adequate yearly progress” in standardized test scores. (Those that don’t are put on a published list of “failing schools,” and parents can transfer their students to another school.)

• All teachers must be “highly qualified” (by 2005).• Schools must use “scientifically based” practices

and methods.• Students must be “technology-literate” by eighth

grade.

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NCLB & Academic Standards

• Main reasons for academic standards …• To make sure students are learning what they’re

supposed to learn at a particular level • To clearly measure student outcomes

o “The standards-based education reform, setting high standards and establishing measurable goals will improve students’ outcomes”

o “Whatever each state decides students will learn, each school must prove that students are learning it.”

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Thus… Technology in Standards-Based Education

• Administrators, parents and students have expectations about technology use in the classroom.

• Your students need to meet state standards.• It is important for you to know how to

integrate technology into your classroom based on the standards.

• And that’s what w200 is all about!

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Solutions…

• But what about individualized learning and customized learning? How can you meet the standards and your students’ needs?

• Webquests are one solution.

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Inquiry Oriented Lessons: Webquest

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What is a Webquest?

• A video created by one of former W200 students on Webquest:

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What is a Webquest?

• In short… Webquest is “an inquiry-oriented lesson for individual learning in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. ”

o Teachers will give a task to students to work on either individually or as a group.

o Teachers will provide information and appropriate resources needed to accomplish that task.

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What a WebQuest is composed of…

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Why Webquests?

• Webquests allow:• students to learn at their own pace and on their

own (but all students learn the same content),• teachers to be free from the role of presenter, • teachers to give individual assistance to those in

need.

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How do you make a WebQuest?

Technology tools

• Templateso Quest Gardeno Zunal.com

• Website building tools o Google Siteso Weeblyo Yola

• Otherso Google Docs

Pedagogical Knowledge

• Devising a task through which students will meet the learning goals.

• Providing appropriate guidelines and resources

• Providing self-assessment tools Knowledge of the topic