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Science and Technology

• Victoria Brown, Ed. D.
• Florida Atlantic University

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Taxonomy of Technology Use

• Learning about how to utilize technology
• Using a word processor, planning and
  organizational software, and communication tools
• Presenting of knowledge by using PowerPoint, web
  pages, multimedia, picture, video, and audio
• Manipulation of data through spreadsheets, data
  bases, and analysis software
• Social interaction Blogging, Twitter, MySpace,
  YouTube, Second Life

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Learning from Technology

• Drill and practice practicing materials learned
  through other curriculum sources followed by
  reward activities and remediation
• Tutorial programs delivers both instruction and
  practice
• Demonstration software demonstration of
  scientific principals
• Online teacher resources for science

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Learning with Technology

• Simulations programs which involves the student
  in making decisions by interacting with a
  simulated real-world situations
• Frog dissections
• BrainPop
• Sim games (SimZoo, SimPlanet, SimPets)

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Science Simulations

• eduMedia
• Net Frog This website provides a Virtual Frog
  Dissection
• Human Anatomy Online Take tours of different
  body systems.
• MEDtropolis an animated tour of different body
  parts.

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Science Simulations

• Discovery School Check out the discovery school
  offered by National Geographic. They even have
  online expeditions with real live explorers!
• Brain Pop Brain Pop is a great website. You can
  use on of their animated clips per day without
  charge. The license is not too expensive which
  gives you unlimited access. They offer many ways
  to enhance your lessons for all content areas.
  They even allow you to create online tests which
  can download to a gradebook.

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Learning with Technology

• Gaming
• Uses complex thinking
• Uses problem solving
• Motivational for students
• Funschool Science Games
• Ask.com Science Games
• Iknowthat Science Games
• Edheads
• Exploratorium Online activities

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Games Continue

• Nobelprize.org
• Kids Science
• SoftSchool

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Learning Thinking Skills with Technology

• Technology supports the development of cognition,
  meta-cognition, and problem solving skills
• Using video anchors to pose problems and puzzles
  for students
• Using technology to solve problems
• Using technology to conduct research
• Using technology to gather and analysis data
• Using technology to present what you have learned

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Problem Solving

• Problem solving is a goal directed sequence of
  cognitive actions starting from instructions to
  desired answers (Chi et al., 1982)
• Problem solving involves finding a solution path
  from the initial problem state (information in
  the problem plus knowledge) to the final goal
  state (answer) (Newell Simon, 1972)

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Problem Solving

• Initial State Solution Path Goal State
  Problem Space
• Differences in strategies and processes employed
  in the problem space are vital and differ between
  expert and novice problem solvers.

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Problem Solving
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Problem Solving Lesson Plan

• Teacher create a problem for students to solve
• Students define the problem
• Students decide what the already know
• Students decide what they need to know more about
  the solve the problem
• Students begin to research
• Students brainstorm solutions

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Problem Based Lesson Plan

• Students decide if they need more information and
  research for that information
• Students develop solution
• Students test the solution
• Students analysis the data about the solution
• Students evaluate the success of the solution
• Students present the process and solution to
  class, members of the community.

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Resource Selection Guidelines for Integration

• The context must be readily available on
  videotape, videodisc, CB, virtual reality, or the
  internet
• The context must be suitable for student viewing
  at the elementary levels
• The context must contain information needed to
  gain student interest and attention

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Resource Selection Guidelines for Integration

• The information in the context must be in a
  language of communication familiar to students
• The science and language arts illustrated in the
  context must fall within a topic of instruction
  in the school curricula

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Resource Selection Guidelines for Integration

• The teacher should be able to explicitly identify
  the science concepts and the language skills
  embedded in the context
• The topic represented in the macro-context must
  be appropriate to the grade level

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Video Anchors

• Anchored Video Instruction
• A macro-context based instructional framework for
  engaging students in realistic complex problem
  solving, reflection, transfer, and critical
  thinking
• The anchors are stories or episodes developed
  around believable situation providing complex
  problem solving opportunities
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (Learning with Science
  replacing gold statue with sand.)

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Video Anchors

• Custom developed video episodes that begin the
  discussion about science
• The Golden Statuette
• Border Blues

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Video Anchors

• Science Counterintuitive Events interactive
  video of selected counterintuitive (or
  discrepant) event-based problems in science
• HyperScience
• Perform additional investigations
• Collect data
• Read various materials
• Use clues to seek additional information
• Utilize gathered information and prior science
  knowledge to offer an explanation for the
  observed phenomenon.

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Video Simulations

• Videos are imbedded within the simulations to
  create interest and provide clues to solve the
  problems in the simulations
• The River of Life simulation
• The River City Project

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Evaluating Commerce Video for Science

• Must be readily available in form
• Must be suitable for student viewing
• The topic represented must be appropriate for
  grade level
• Must contain real-world problem situation to gain
  student attention and promote interest in science
• Must be in a language familiar to students
• Must be able to identify the science concept and
  skills required
• The problem can be solved with the knowledge
  students have developed through class instruction

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• Volcanoes video