Ruth+Crawford+Activity+Week+6

TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION FOR MEANINGFUL CLASSROOM USE
=  =  Unit Title: Collaboration Tool || Related Lessons: Best Advice Project || Grade: 9th || Subject(s): Research || ** GOALS  ** || **Content Standards:** Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media. Students communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats. Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. Students evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks. Students select and use applications effectively and productively. Students transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies.
 * A Standards-Based Approach **

The students will learn how to use a collaboration tool to increase learning. The students will also use a digital reflection tool to monitor and assess their progress while they complete their project. They will post problems they are having with their project in hopes of finding an answer from the teacher or another student on the class wiki. This process will enable the student to lean on technology while they are completing their “Best Advice Project”. ** ACTION   ** || Date || Schedule of lessons || Materials & Resources needed || Day one Day two || Teach students how to access the wiki. Teach them how to use the wiki to both pose questions and reflect and evaluate their progress as they work on their project. Revisit wiki and remind students about the rubric page, the questions page and the reflection page. Address any questions currently on question page and discuss posts on the reflection page || The class wiki located at [|www.crawfordclass.wetpaint.com] 35 computers in the media center computer lab The class wiki located at [|www.crawfordclass.wetpaint.com] 35 computers in the media center computer lab || ** MONITOR  ** || Assessment(s): I will keep a close eye on how often the problem and reflection pages are visited. There is no assessment for this component of the project. I will create time at the end of the periods that my classes are in the media center working on their project to have them log on to the class wiki and post a reflection on the reflection page. When we are in the classroom, I will show the students the reflection page and the problem page so they are cognizant of the efficacy of using such pages. They will see how their questions are being answered by their peers and they will get to see how others may struggle with the same issues or be able to celebrate with their peers on the creative joy that comes with creating a project using digital tools. I believe the students will come away with a new appreciation of an online collaboration tool. Accommodations and extensions: Inherent in the use of online collaboration is the ability for those that struggle to seek help from their peers in a non-threatening environment. I will be able to come along side those that are having difficulty using the power point software and shore them up with skills they may be short on. The collaboration component to the class wiki will be helpful in determining who needs extra help.
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