integrating technologies in instructional environments lauren cifuentes

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

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