Integrating Technologies in Instructional Environments Lauren Cifuentes

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Integrating Technologies in Instructional
EnvironmentsLauren Cifuentes
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table
to library
bookcase
desk
A possible floor-plan for a collaborative
instructional environment.
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Shakespeares Life and Times-- CD-Rom by
Intellimation Students Role

• orchestrate your own scene placing actors and
  props on virtual stage and directing characters
  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.
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Teachers Role

• design and or install multiple activities
• assure that all students are challenged, none
  lost
• provide content mentorship
• coach students (management)
• evaluate students.

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Restructuring

• Departures from conventional practice that
  fundamentally change the roles of teachers,
  administrators, students, and parents working
  with schools

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REFORM PREPARING STUDENTS IN SCHOOLS

a variety of
technology
Environments
where
effective
strategies
a variety of
are activated
methods
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Effective Strategies

• Time on task
• individualized pacing
• individualized feedback
• performance based instruction
• cooperative learning
• peer tutoring

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Technology

• The replicable means, forms or vehicles by
  which instruction is formatted, stored, and
  delivered to the learner.

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Methods

• Any way to shape information that activates,
  supplants or compensates for the cognitive
  processes necessary for achievement or motivation

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TEACHING METHODS SURVEY
Rank the methods below 1 most used, 2 second
most used, etc.
Student performance Self-directed
study Packaged Instruction Other please
describe
Lecture Demonstration Questioning/ tutorial Dis
cussion
Successful teachers use student performance as
their primary method.
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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

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Your Assignment is to Create a Classroom of
Workstations

• Work areas where students conduct activities
  independently or cooperatively.
• Remember learning centers?

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Rationale for Workstations

• Student-centered
• cooperative learning, full participation
• multi-delivery systems
• individual responsibility
• motivation of technology and interactivity.

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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

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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.
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Shakespeare the Varieties of Human Experience--
Audiotape lecture by Americas Superstar Teachers.
A third workstation in the Romeo and Juliet unit.
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Shakespeare for Students Critical
Interpretations for High Schoolers-- Book
A fourth workstation in the Romeo and Juliet unit.
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Shakespeare and the Globe--Videocassette by
Films for the Humanities and Sciences
A fifth workstation in the Romeo and Juliet unit.
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Student Made Video of Play--Video Camera
A sixth workstation in the Romeo and Juliet unit.
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Research Paper-- Internet
A seventh workstation in the Romeo and Juliet
unit.
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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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CD-Rom
Internet
Video disc in
library
Book
Audiotape
Video Cassette
bookcase
desk
Video Camera
The Romeo and Juliet unit.
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If you were to implement your unit you would
assess students using portfolio assessment
methods by keeping a folder to document each
students

• Processes
• Products

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STATION STUDENT
TEACHER GRADE

COMMENTS
COMMENTS
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Presentation monitor from ceiling
Internet DVC CD
Internet CD
Audiotape
Video disc and Internet access in library
Books, etc.
Video Cassette
desk
bookcase
Video Camera
bookcase
Another floor-plan.