Unit 5 - Culmination: Posting Lesson in a Shared Environment
Objectives
- The participants will be able to post lesson plans to a wikispace.
- The participants will be able to edit the lesson plan within the Wikispace based on peer feedback.
- The participants will be able to post in a discussion page within a Wikispace relating to lesson plans of classmates.
Introduction
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In this final unit you will take what you have learned in previous units and apply this information to three existing lesson plans that you have used. Here you will choose three of your lesson plans and alter them to include a mobile technology component. You might want to find a lesson in which students complete research and integrate a small group research activity using QR readers. Or perhaps you will want to use a vocabulary lesson using one of the flash card creator mobile apps, it’s up to you. Find a way to make an existing lesson plan more engaging and relevant to the students.
What is important to realize is that the lessons should not revolve around the mobile technology, which is why you will be augmenting existing lesson plans. This unit is designed to change the way you think about teaching and learning by affording the students more choices and allowing them to take repsonsibility for their learning. You should also be sure that your lesson plans provide for evaluation and assessment. Assessment should be ongoing and is formative in nature, while the evaluation would be a summative measure of student acheivement. It would be very interesting to see if the student outcomes differed between teaching the lessons with mobile technology and without mobile technology.
Learning Activities
Go to the Wikispace that has been created for the class, the link has been provided below.
By now you will have received and email invitation to join the Wikispace.
Accept the invitation and you will be able to edit the Wiki. Here is what we will do in this unit:
1. Each of you will have your own page within the Wiki. To access and edit your page click your name on the left navigation pane.
2. You will post your three lesson plans on your page. Be sure to title and number each lesson.
3. Each page will have a discussion page. You are to post feedback, using the guidelines used in Unit 4, to one of your classmates (for all three lessons) on the discussion page.
4. After you receive feedback, go into your lesson and edit the lesson considering the feedback if appropriate.
5. Respond to the person who reviewed your lessons. You must review the lessons of someone that has not been reviewed already.