Podcast - Philosophy of Teaching

Technology-integration Lesson Design

Subject, grade level, and lesson topic

10^th grade Mathematics – Geometry

Learning goals

Students will able to write equations of linear functions in standard form and slope-intercept form.

Technology/rationale

Promethean ActivBoard Interactive Whiteboard technology*

Promethean ActivInspire software*

Promethean ActiVote Learner Response System technology*

CompassLearning Odyssey*

Blogger.com

Wikispaces.com

* this technology is presently available in my classroom

Scenario and assessment

IWB technology will be used to present the lesson. I will interact with the presentation so that the lesson is more dynamic than a simple PowerPoint presentation; this will help keep students engaged. ActiVote devices will be used for a quiz to assess students’ understanding.

Students that fail the quiz must complete a lesson module on CompassLearning Odyssey for remediation. The grade they receive will replace their failing quiz grade.

Students will post a blog entry answering the essential question of the lesson “How do I write a linear equation passing through a given point?” I will read each student’s blog to determine their level of conceptual understanding.

Students will use a wiki to work in groups and solve a single problem. I will check each group’s wiki to assess the group’s conceptual and procedural understanding writing linear equations and to see how much each student participated in the problem solving process.

Students will then post another blog sharing their solution to the problem and an explanation of how they found the solution. I will again read each blog post to determine if each student’s explanation demonstrates individual understanding.

Coming Soon

High School Geometry Technology-integration lesson design.

My hope for the technology-integration lesson design project is to create a lesson that I will use in the classroom. In fact, I hope to be able to evaluate the lesson and discuss what worked and areas of improvement. 

I have already determined to use Promethean IWB (Interactive White Board) and Activote technology, as they are presently available in my classroom. My challenge will be to integrate the Web 2.0 tools learned this semester (i.e. blogs, wikis, Google docs, etc.) into the lesson so that all students will have equitable access.

TPACK (Technoligical, Pedagogical, and Content Knowledge)

What is TPACK?

This video/enhanced podcast describes TPACK--a useful conceptual model for understanding the complex interplay of professional knowledge domains during a teacher's integration of technology with classroom practice.

*for more information visit http://www.tpack.org

Personal TPACK assessment

As people, we must consider knowledge and the acquisition of knowledge to be a never ending journey of discovery. In other words, our knowledge will never be complete but it will become more complete with experience and as we continue to grow.

As educators, TPACK offers us a framework for organizing our knowledge and a tool for assessing our knowledge and identifying areas of improvement.  Personally, my greatest area of growth is needed in technological, pedagogical knowledge (TPK). That is not to say that I have no need for growth in the other areas of the TPACK framework but my understanding of integrating technology and pedagogy is the least developed, simply because I am lacking in experience in this area.

Online Surveys

Below is a sample survey created using Google Docs
      
This sample survey is a questionnaire to collect background information from students