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Preparing Candidates to use Technologies

• Presenters
• UNCW Middle/Secondary Students
• Dr. Angelia Reid-Griffin
• Dr. Dennis S. Kubasko, JR.
• Dr. Richard Huber

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UNCW Student PresentersChelsea Coleman and Katie
Bradshaw motion detectorRichie Brown and
Corbin Clay pH probeDiane Abrams and Bo
Harrison Conductivity probeDave Vallett
Temperature probeJohn Gardner ProScope

• North Carolina Science Teachers Associations
  38th Annual Professional Development Institute
• November, 2006

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Agenda for presentation

• Background with technology integration
• 15 minutes
• Introductions of stations with laboratory
  activities
• 15 minutes
• Participant interactions with stations
• 30 minutes

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Background / context

• First and foremost, we wanted to explicitly link
  the pre-service teacher education program with
  the in-service needs of the secondary science
  education community.
• Second, we wished to integrate appropriate
  technology instruction in the secondary science
  methods course.
• Third, we wanted to further establish
  partnerships/networks throughout the education
  community using comprehensive training for
  everyone vested.

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Research

• Traditional age college seniors (who were student
  teachers this past spring) have never known a
  time when there were not personal computers.
• Linn, Songer, Lewis Sterm (1991) and Mokros and
  Tinker (1987) note technologies such as probeware
  have aided students construction of scientific
  concepts.
• Krajcik Layman (2004) states the tools are
  powerful and help to improve students abilities
  in graphing and conducting experiments.

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Mentoring

• Student interns
• Understandings of learning to teach typically
  involve the placement of a mentee or novice
  teacher with a more experienced mentor whose role
  is to supervise and guide the mentee.
• However, with regard to emerging technologies,
  many mentees are more knowledgeable and skilled
  in the use of such technologies than their
  mentors (Dexter Reidel, 2003 Smith Kubasko,
  2005).
• The NETS-T standards call for all interns to
  guide collaborative learning activities in which
  students use technology resources to solve
  authentic problems in the subject area (ISTE,
  2006)
• http//www.iste.org/inhouse/nets/cnets/teachers/t_
  profile-stu.html

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Guiding Principals

• The standards guiding the development and
  integration of curricula are the proposed
  guidelines for using technology in the
  preparation of science teachers (Flick Bell,
  2000) and are as follows
• Technology should be introduced in the context of
  science content.
• Technology should address worthwhile science with
  appropriate pedagogy.
• Technology instruction in science should take
  advantage of the unique features of technology.
• Technology should make scientific views more
  accessible.
• Technology instruction should develop students'
  understanding of the relationship between
  technology and science.

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Obstacles to integrating technology

• All content area interns and partnership teachers
  were asked to respond to a number of items that
  have been identified as barriers to integrating
  technology.
• Teachers viewed these barriers to be
  statistically significantly from their interns
  views
• Lack or limited access to computers,
• availability of software,
• too much material to cover,
• lack of mentoring, and
• technology integrated lessons require too much
  preparation.

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Pre-service Teacher Education

• Middle/Secondary students are trained in their
  science methods courses to use of data collection
  devices and other technologies to teach science
  concepts during field experiences internships.
• Lateral entry students are encouraged to used
  tools in their current science classes)

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Professional Development

• Middle/Secondary
• SMEC (Science, Mathematics Education Center)
• Resources
• Introduction to CMC (Curriculum Materials Center)
  
• University support
• Informal Science Settings
• Cape Fear Museum

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Vertical teaming
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Horizontal teaming
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Connect the training

• Methods training
• Internship semester
• First-year teacher
• Partnership teacher

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Probeware Emerging Technologies

• Laboratory Experience - Probe ware sensors,
  ProScopes (laptop, Palm, TI calculators)
• Lesson Planning - Taskstream web site (lesson
  building, discussions, portfolio)
• Instructional Design - Concept mapping software
  (Inspiration Kidspiration) web based resources
• Inquiry Concepts - Data Visualization Tools
  (River Run) Explore science

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Overview of Presentation

• An opportunity to interact with current UNCW
  students and see how they use advanced
  technologies (probe ware) to teach science
  content during internship experience
• The presenters will demonstrate the activities
  and may ask you to also participate in the
  demonstrations

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Materials

• Dell Laptop computer
• PALM Handheld computer
• Texas Instrument Graphing Calculator
• The ProScope Scalar USB microscope
• Various Vernier Probeware sensors

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Probeware Stations

• Chelsea Coleman and Katie Bradshaw motion
  detector
• Richie Brown and Corbin Clay pH probe
• Diane Abrams and Bo Harrison Conductivity probe
• Dave Vallett Temperature probe
• John Gardner ProScope

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