School scenario

Here is the plan:

• Read through with your group.

• Take notes wile reading this scenario.

• Discuss with your team mate by the end of unit one.

The Scenario:

Ms. Croft, the sixth grade science teacher at Unicorn Middle School has divided her class into teams. Each team is required to prepare a presentation for one of the units they are studying.

Team 3 (Mayra, Samy and Adam) should present soon for the Moon cycle unit.

In the first meeting the three members discussed their plan and commented on how boring were presentations by the first two teams. They decided they should use more interactive style for their unit.

The second meeting, Mayra found a website explaining in details Moon phases. She asked Grace and Adam to come up with other rich resources.

The third meeting, Grace a YouTube video she found interesting and argued that this will add visual appeal to the presentation. While Adam was looking for articles using Google that explore the topic further. Now they gathered everything they want to include in the presentation. Mayra and Adam should be putting the presentation together using PowerPoint.

Mayra, simply copied and pasted the website she found and Adam add the link for the YouTube video. Both of them read the articles and included pieces from different articles into the slides.

The day of the presentation Ms. Croft surprised them before class that the Superintendent (Mr. Vision) is visiting the school and will listen to their presentation. the students were so excited they did a great job putting a nice presentation.

Ms. Croft, the Superintendent and the school principle was so impressed by the presentation. Mr. Vision discussed with Ms. Croft her teaching style and getting kids involved and expressed his intention to comment on it during the district meeting.

In the district meeting Mr. Vision asked Ms. Croft to show the presentation as a model and he asked school principles to use this presentation to encourage teachers to follow the example. The idea was well liked by everyone and after few weeks several science and social study teachers were asking students to prepare presentations.

Mrs. Craig is a parent and a reporter for the Fox News. She was impressed by the idea of getting students involved and learning how to use technology. She decided she will make a report about the story. Mrs Craig was interviewing the Moon Cycle group about their presentation and when she asked them: Mrs Craig: Your Presentation is now a model in the district and teacher are using it to present this unit to their students. Mayra, Did you designed this page yourself?

Mayra: No, I just copied it. She answered

Mrs Craig: What do you mean "copy it"?

Mayra:I found the website and I only copied and pasted the page in my presentation.

Mrs. Craig: Ah, and then your cited it at the end?

Mayra: what do you mean by cite?

Mrs Craig: No one told you before about citing?

Mrs Craig: Does your teacher know where you copied this?

Mayra: No, she never asked me.

Mrs. Craig: Do you kids seek permission to use this video in you presentation?

Students: Permission!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At this point Mrs. Craig stopped her interviewing and asked to to meet with Ms. Croft, the school librarian and Principle.

What do you think this meeting will be about? What is so alarming in the kids and the rest of school community behavior?