Week 2 Brainstorming Session
Guiding Questions
What process will you use as a learning team to solve the scenario-based problem?
Collaboration on Google Docs. using acquired knowledge from videos, readings, discussions, and lectures from week 1 and 2 (EDLD 5364).
Who should be a part of the learning team composition?
Team members listed above.
Who will be the team leader to get the project started and keep the team on track?
Michael Warren
What skills will your learning team need to possess to successfully solve this problem?
Tina - We will need to be organized, delegate duties to members of the team, and implement a successful plan that is in the best interest of all parties involved.
David? - Course content knowledge, educational experience, online collaboration
Susan-We will need to communicate regularly and set goals of what we want to accomplish.
Alexis - We will need to communicate with each member to make sure that everyone is in agreement with our plan. We will need to use prior knowledge and new information gained from this course in order to accomplish our goal.
Which team member has experience with special needs students?
I (David?) have experience with special needs students to the point of integration in my regular ed. classroom. I am familiar with modifications involved in learning and special needs students. I have attended several ARDs and other related meetings. I have successfully completed the Lamar courses (School Law) that have contained an abundant amount on info. on special needs students.
Tina - I have about the same level of experience as David with special needs students - I have attended ARDs, have accommodated for special needs students in my class. I teach senior high technology applications courses and tend to not have any profoundly special needs students in my class.
Susan- I work with college level students, as as academic advisor, and some of the students are students with disabilities. I am not certified for special education though. I am certified elementary,grades 1-8.
Alexis - I have had as much experience with special education students as Tina and David. As a team leader at my school, I do a lot of the modification on tests and quizzes for the different levels of special needs. I also attend ARDs for annual, move-ins, and behavior intervention plans.
What will be the roles of each team member in the development, implementation, and assessment of the program? All team members
Tina - technology research in finding videos to assist with training the instructor and providing effective resources for students. Assisting my other team members with resources I may have access to.
Mike - I can provide technical assistance regarding implementation of hardware and software ideas.
Alexis - I can help design the implementation plan once we put all of our ideas together along with help with any research that needs to be done.
Who will be responsible for ensuring the technology-based learning activities are research-based?
Tina - this is not my specialty. I will help whomever wants to take on this role.
What grade level and content area (s) will you address?
David? - I teach middle school, but can work with any grade level.
Tina - I am a senior high technology application teacher. I currently teach 11th and 12th graders Desktop Publishing, Multimedia and BCIS. I am certified in Technology Applications and General Business.
Mike - I am 9-12 technology applications (Web, Video, Multimedia, Animation)
Susan- I currently work with college students of many ages, but I will work with whatever grade that the group wants to work with.
Alexis - I have taught 7th grade math and I am currently teaching predominately 9th and 10th grade math. I think that we should focus on high school 11th and 12th graders.
What will the learning activities look like?
Tina - Group collaboration of an online activity
Mike - A web site or web based activity could be developed. I have developed some simple activities that are similar to the old "choose your own adventure books".
Alexis - I like Tina's idea of a online collaboration. We could use an activity similar to Mike's for the assignment.
How will you model examples for the teacher?
Tina - Scenario based modeling
Susan-We could do PowerPoint or video too.(?)
How will you assess the effectiveness of the learning activities?
Teacher surveys
Tina - I also think that a rubric would be an effective assessment tool.
Susan-Yes, I definitely think that we should incorporate a rubric. We have those in all of our classes here.
Alexis - I like the idea of a rubric. We could use one of the websites provided in the textbook to create one.
What technology tools will be included in the Google wiki/website format your team will use for the final delivery of your scenario solution?
Will it include video, documents, and other technology project samples?
Tina - I think we need a document in the form of a lesson plan for the teacher listing the order of activities with descriptions. Everything seems to point to a video output or we can compile a list of videos for them to use. We could also create a PowerPoint to assist the teacher in explaining the project.
Susan-Tina, good idea. I like the lesson plan. I think we should include the Technology TEKS too.
Alexis - I like the lesson plan idea as well. If we use the group collaboration, I think that we should some how create a wiki page or blog for the collaboration to take place.
Who will publish your work and to which free sites such as TeacherTube, Google Videos, Flickr, or others will be linked back to the Google team wiki/website?
Tina - I think we should use TeacherTube and we can determine who wants to post to it
Susan- I have not used that before, but I am all for it!
Alexis - I have not used that before either, but I have not used a lot of these resources that are required. Please use whatever everyone feels comfortable and I will tag along. I am enjoying learning about all these different sites!
Required Components
- Develop a plan of action
- Provide examples of student-centered learning activities with technology to meet the diversity of the students
- Include 21st Century learning trends
- Create sample technology projects
- Select the mediums your team will use to share your final group project with the world within the Google wiki/website
- Publish your scenario-based solution to the Google wiki/website and share with the world
Additional Brainstorming
Michael C. Warren - I think one of the key things to implement would be a television in the room. I would also say that computers be available, and training will be required. Group activities are critical as it will offer students from various levels to learn from each other.
Tina Cone - I think a group collaboration project would be good pairing the gifted and talented students with the students with special needs. I would think groups of 3 would be best, one gt, one spec, and one on level. I agree that training for the teacher in the form of modeling is best for implementing it effectively. Students could do a webquest, post to a discussion board and report their findings in an online wiki.
David Silar - Group collaboration sounds like the plan, I agree. I think we should create a several day student project that contains the following components; professional development, rubric, templates, survey, lesson plan, roles of student participants, software, hardware, publishing, and more...
From the text Using Technology
-The nine categories of instructional strategies that affect student achievement.
-Four Planning Questions.
- Pairing Technology and effective Instructional Strategies (5 genres)
- 7 Categories of Technology
All of this is combined is a matrix that could help guide the plan.
Also the rest of the text contains examples that are helpful and should be further explored (I plan on reading the entire text in the next few days).
Susan-I really like the group collaboration project. We could even assign different tasks or goals for each group to achieve and then they could present the information to the other students. That way they are peer tutoring inside the group and then from group to group.
Alexis - I like that idea as well, Susan. I definitely like group collaboration. Each student needs to have their own separate job to do (research, design, presentation, etc.) and they should be required to report back to each other everyday about what they have found and what still needs to be done. The teacher could make them put this information on a blog/wiki page everyday so that the teacher has a way of keeping track of their everyday activities.
At the beginning of the project, we need to make sure that students will be provided with a rubric, roles of each student, and a KWHL chart so that they can fill out what they know and what they hope to find throughout the project. As for the teacher, we can provide training through video or PowerPoint, and make sure that the teacher has all of the software and hardware that is required for the project.