NSS Chemistry Learning

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NSS ChemistryLearning Teaching
StrategySearching Presenting Information for
Learning Chemistry

• Raymond FONG
• raymondfong_at_emb.gov.hk

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Outcomes expected in this session?

• Develop some information searching skills
• Design a web-based information searching
  assignment for NSS Chemistry Students (or S4-5
  Chemistry Curriculum)
• Discuss on how to helping students
• make use of the information from the web in an
  appropriate manner
• evaluate information from the web

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Global Changes

• IAYF
• (Information At Your Fingertips)
• Students are digital natives and teachers are
  digital immigrants
• Internet is a rich repertoire of information,
  but students need skills to deal with the
  information available. Students cannot handle
  the information available on the web
• (Can you drink water from a fire hose?)
• Students are comfortable with the web, but do not
  have the skills

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Infrastructure
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• Computers
• More than 200 computers in secondary schools
• Information highway
• Broadband connections deeply penetrated
• IT competency of chemistry teachers
• BIT, IIT, UIT and AIT

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Why Searching Presenting Information

• Develop students generic skills required for
  life-long learning
• Helping students become active participants of
  learning
• Helping students to learn chemistry

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Web-searching Skills

• Demonstration with Google
• Plan what you want to search
• To locate information related to chile saltpetre
  and noble prize
• Search statements
• Chile Saltp
• Chile Saltpetre
• Chile and Saltpetre
• Chile or Saltpetre
• Chile Saltpetre
• Chile Saltpetre siteemb.gov.hk
• Chile Saltpetre sitewikipedia.org
• Chile Saltpetre sitenobelprize.org

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Designing Web-search Exercise(Teacher directed
students IT-based exercise)

• Study the worksheet provided individually
• Work in pairs, design a searching and presenting
  information exercise for your own students
• Target S4 or S5 students
• Topic Any topic in NSS Chemistry
• Pedagogical arrangement Facilitate students
  learn from each other Time required ___ hours
  (all included)
• Products required Flexible
• Presentation files, Web-pages, Computer
  Animations, Short Essays, Oral Reports,
  Critiques, etc.

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Pedagogical Design

• Reading time 2 minutes
• Group discussion 10 minutes
• Fill in worksheet 5 minutes

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How can students learn from each other after a
web-searching exercise?

• Pedagogical arrangement
• Individual / Group presentation
• Peer discussion for strengths and weaknesses
• Jigsaw method
• Peer critique through email / forum
• Poster booth and voting for the best
• Posting on intranet / Internet / billboard, and
  voting for the best

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CU Plagiarism Identification Engine?????? ???

• Example
• http//cupide.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/cupide/example/
• Demonstration
• http//cupide.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/portal/media/demo.sw
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