lesson plan for tpack integration

Lesson Plan for TPACK integration

Application
Describe an instructional activity (e.g. part of a lesson plan) where you can incorporate this technology. Consider an activity that can be conducted in 15-20 minutes.

First, provide some details regarding:

• Learners: The learners will be a 3^rd grade math students.
• Learning outcomes: At the end of this activity students will know place value.
• Assessment: Students will receive a homework page for today, and be tested on it later on in the week.

Second, break down your activity into a timeline of planned events and procedures. Here you should describe what students and the teacher will be doing chronologically during the activity. Below is one of the good examples from previous reflections:

• As the teacher I will introduce place value by using the foam blocks. We will talk about each group of ones, tens, hundreds, thousands.
• Using pearsontexas.com, we will watch a short video called “Visual Learning”
• We will also go over the question of the day and have a student go to the smart board and answer the question.
• Using the same website we will go over the review for the lesson. Students will find the same page in their workbook and follow along while I ask questions and explain the answers.
• After the lesson is done, the teacher will assign homework for the students
• In the free time remaining the students will get into groups and word on the game that is provided at the end of the lesson on the website.

Reflection
Considering your learning activity described above, write two paragraphs or three for each section below addressing the questions. It may be helpful to keep in mind the followings when reflecting:

1. Technology is a huge support in the lesson because it offers visual learning that students may understand better than just hearing how it is done. Technology even offers the use of having a game at the end which will keep students on task, and willing to answer so that they will have enough time to play at the end.

2. The use of a smart board in this lesson will help students with hands on learning. Students will be able to see and get to write on the smart board to help them and the students around them learn the lesson. Also, having students go up to the front of the classroom will help them with their confidence and they will be encourage to want to go to the front.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

--Pedagogical-Content:

Your pedagogical content knowledge refers to your understanding of teaching strategies that are specific to a content area. That is the knowledge about choosing appropriate pedagogies for teaching a particular content

 

Now, forget about the technology for a while…..Just tells us about your teaching strategies that you employ in your activity (e.g., analogies, demonstrations, illustrations, examples, explanations, group work, drill-practice, simulations, role-play, lecturing, self-guided learning, inquiry-based learning, problem based learning or etc). Specifically:

• Some things that I will use in my teaching are the foam blocks that students will be able to touch and feel and get to play with. I think this will help students to be able to see what I am trying to teach more efficiently.
• I think the students will already have the background knowledge of ones, tens, and maybe even hundreds place value, but to be sure we will start with the smaller place value and work our way up. The motivation to learn this might be getting to play the game at the end.

--Technological-Pedagogical:

Your technological pedagogical knowledge refers to your understanding of technologies for particular learning tasks, your ability to choose technologies based on its fitness, your knowledge of pedagogical strategies, and your ability to apply those strategies for use of technologies

 

In the previous section, you talked about your instructional strategies. Keeping these strategies you stated in mind, now tell us how the technology is used in your activity.  Specifically:

• Some of the main instructional strategies would be the use of the worksheet and the students following along to what they are being taught and filling it out on their own worksheet.
• A management strategy would be the game at the end of the lesson, if we are on task and all working together we will get to play the game. But if we are distracted and not focused then the game will be taken away. Also getting up and going to the board will keep students wanting to participate.  

--Technological Pedagogical Content:

Your technological pedagogical content knowledge refers to your understanding of how teaching and learning from content may change when technology used and is our knowledge about selecting technologies that suits, support, and enhances teaching strategies and learning activities in your particular content area. It is your understanding of teaching strategies to effectively teach the particular content and help student conceptual difficulties in this content by meaningfully incorporating technologies.

 

Now, let’s focus on the content you’re teaching in your activity. Think about your decisions to incorporate this technology and the teaching strategies in relation to your particular content area. Tell us specifically about:

• I believe the use of demonstrations and explanations on the smart board will help students understand the lesson clearly. When we use the smart board to answer the question of the day the students will get to see firsthand how they are supposed to use the lesson to everyday life. 
• We will talk about how students will use this concept in everyday life and how it will be used beyond the classroom.

Reflections Over Article.

"The Net Generation as Preservice Teachers: Transferring Familiarity with New Technologies to Educational Environments" is the title of the article I got. The main idea of this article is talking about preservice (haven't started in a classroom yet) teachers and the importance of technology in the classroom. A interesting quote form the article says that "digital natives have been defined as people who are born after 1984 who have grown up with digital technologies, are at ease with new technologies, and expect the new technologies in their education."  I think this is very true for some people, for example my grandma was a teacher for many many years and when the school started using their emails for everything she had a harder time with it. This article was pretty much about how preservice teachers already have knowledge of different technological outlets and if they would use them in the classroom.

Refelctions on Articles

Amber Hall

Educational Technology

Mrs. Wu

August 25, 2015

Reflection on Articles

                First off, we looked at a picture of Albert Einstein with a quote from him saying, “I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots”. A few comments that I would like to make regrading that statement would be, if technology were to surpass human interaction then how did it get to that point. Well the answer might be because humans made it that way, humans have developed technology to be that way. Yes Mr. Einstein, it does seem easier to use technology like texting, emailing, or other forms of media to communicate with others, but that also allows us to communicate with many people from all over the country at once. If the world becomes a generation of idiots, then so be it. That just means that our generation has flourished when it comes to technology and the world will be filled with idiots because technology will never stop growing.

                Secondly, the article named “Summon the comfy chairs!” makes me think “Wow. People are awesome”. We live in a world today where people come up some crazy ideas and actually bring them to life. I have seen the robot vacuum cleaner before and it just makes life so much easier. I feel like we live in a world where we are always so busy and when we have things like this to make it just a little bit simpler then that sounds like a good day to me.

                Third, the article titled “Equivalency of Paper Versus Tablet Computer Data Survey Data” does not surprise me one bit. It is so much easier to reach many more people through the internet than it is through paper. It would also be a lot cheaper to send an email with 100 addresses on it, than to mail out 100 envelops with 100 stamps on them to people. You are also more likely to get responses from the internet than from people having to mail back the survey.

                Lastly, the “Teacher Technology Usage” article prepared by PBS is a very eye opening one. You do not realize how much technology is used in the classroom, but it is true. Teachers use overhead projectors, smart boards, computers, tablets, etc. every day as a helpful tool for students to learn. As students grow and go to school they are introduced to more and more technology. When they get into jr. high and high school they get more hands on with the technology and use it for learning. It is a great thing to learn about technology in school because it will never go away, and it is something that students will have to use for the rest of their lives. I believe that one day in the future, schools will get rid of text books completely and it will all be on the newest technology for students to use.