Unit Planning with Technology

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Unit Planning with Technology
CPSL Reflective Seminar on Educational Technology

• April 20, 2002
• Moanalua High School

http//www.mohs.k12.hi.us
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Unit Planning with Technology
CPSL Reflective Seminar on Educational Technology

• Context for Unit Planning
• Unit Planning
• Standards Cluster
• Define Culminating Task
• Backward Map
• Applying the Knowledge

http//www.mohs.k12.hi.us
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Context for Unit Planning

• Based on School Data and School Plan
• Provide the Context for Use of Technology
• Ongoing School Needs Survey, School Profile
• Research-Based Resources
• Provide current best and promising practices
• Understanding by Design Exchange, State License
• ETEC Connections, Hawaiis Best Practices
• Tales from the Electronic Frontier, A Classic
  Thought Provoking
• Includes Tech as a Catalyst to Create Dynamic
  Learning Opportunities

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Clustering ClarifyingStandards

• Standards-Based Framework Grids
• Cross-reference standards, sample units,
  resources
• HCPS Web Alignment with Marco Polo Resources
• Hawaii Learning Interchange, A Gateway to
  resources related to HCPS
• District of Philadelphia Curriculum Framework,
  An Interactive Grid
• Standards Alliance Sample Units, Model Units

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Culminating Task

• Interactive, Inquiry-Based, Global
• Information gathering - polls, surveys
• Content processing mapping, organizers
• Provide opportunities for user/audience to
  participate in and enrich the product 
• Angel Island, TRIO ThinkQuest
• Through Our Eyes, Hearts and Minds--WWII Past,
  Present and Future, L, Sueoka, D. Galera,
  C.Kikuta ThinkQuest Jr.

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Culminating Task

• Extend Communication and Collaboration
• Forums, collaborative Inquiry
• Provide opportunities for global collaboration
  with authentic audiences
• Decisions, Decisions, Decisions, Cultural Debates
• Tom Snyder Productions

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Culminating Task

• Dynamic vs Static
• Publications / Productions
• Student Culminating Products
• The Cuban Experience, ThinkQuest Competition
• Survival of the Fittest, MoHS Summer School
  Product
• Teacher Culminating Products
• MoHS 2001-2002 Conference
• MoHS 2001-2002 Professional Development
  Documentation 

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Backward Map

• Resources Interactivity Communication
• Collaboration Publication and Production
• Building the Background
• Common Understandings
• Deepening the Understanding
• Process, Dig Deeper into Core of Ideas
• Explore Genre of Tech Possibilities 
• Judi Harris' Virtual Architecture

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Communication-Collaboration

• Create a Culture of Learning
• Forum/ListservForums beyond the classroom
• Support and nurture reflective thinking and peer
  
• collaboration
• Student Forums
• ESL Language Arts, Mac Beth Syndrome
• ITF Research, Developing Common Understandings
• Teacher Forum, Reflections on standards-based
  learning

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ResourcesBuilding the Background

• Internet Resources
• Provide resource collection, initially by
  teachers and eventually by all learners
• Build common understanding
• Student Resources
• Lucky You Live Hawaii, C. Morita, MoHS
  2001Summer Session
• Teacher Resources
• A workshop for effective use of and development
  of an online web page
• Teacher PD Modules, MoHS Professional Development

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ResourcesDeepening the Understanding

• Tele-Field / Online Fieldtrips
• Provide primary resources and opportunities to
  work with scientists or experts in the field
• University of Miami Tropical Storm Update,
  Tracks storm information
• A Virtual Tour of the National Museum of the
  American Indian Exhibitions A collaborative
  project by students from Four Directions Schools
  in Santa Clara, New Mexico, South Dakota

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ResourcesDeepening the Understanding

• Electronic Hosts Online Experts
• Provide opportunities to inquire, organize
  information from an author and other experts
• Provide feedback and representative perspectives
  from others
• Ask An Expert Sources, Open Learning Agency's
  Collection  
• Educational Links, Center for Improved
  Engineering and Science Education

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ResourcesDeepening the Understanding

• Human Resources
• Extend data gathering into a global context,
  Involve collaborative problem solving, Develop
  skills to use primary data
• Collaborative Projects
• Build human infrastructures that are powerful
  catalysts for ongoing communication reflective
  learning
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•  Collaborative Projects from CIESE 
• Tales of the Electronic Frontier, WESTED
•  Virtual Power, Pacific Southwest Regional
  Technology in Education
• Kidlink, Kidlink Org
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InteractivityBuilding the Background

• Simulations
• Engage students
• Assess Understanding
• Provide opportunities to initiate discussions on
  issues, ideas
• Decisions, Decisions, Decisions, Cultural
  Debates, Tom Snyder Productions

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InteractivityDeepening the Understanding

• Simulations / Games Construction Kits
• Provide tools to manipulate variables to better
  understand concepts-critically
• Provide immediate feedback of responses
• Is interactive
• Evolutionary Replicators, Natural Selection
  Simulator, ThinkQuest Competition
• Web Cytology, A simulation on unicellular
  biology, ThinkQuest
• Gallery of Interactive Geometry, University of
  Minnesota Science and Technology Center

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InteractivityDeepening the Understanding

• Development of Processes / Skills
• Build tech skills integrated with content
  development
• Polls and surveys
• Develop skills in designing questions, gathering
  data, analyzing and interpreting data and drawing
  conclusions
• Forums
• Develop reflective learning
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•  Poll Makers
• Dream Tools, Free message boards/forums
•  Forums
• Discus Forum, Free Version
•  Nicenet, An integrated online learning space

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Backward MapPD Plan

• PD Back ward Mapping PD Workshops, Support
  Workshops

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Applying the Learning

• The Demonstration
• Samples of Tech Products / Portfolio
• Professional Development Conference, MoHS
  2001-2002
• Individual Culminating Products (May 2002)
• Sample Portfolio,
  L. Sueoka (May 2002)
• ECELL 2001
  Portfolios
• ECELL 2001
  Student Culminating Tasks

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Next Steps

• Differentiated Learning / Learning Styles
• Formative / Summative Assessments
• What is the role of the classroom
  in this emerging era of information
  technology?
• HERN 1994-97