Interactive Lesson Plan
5. Designer
Educators design authentic, learner-driven activities and environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability.
a. Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster independent learning and accommodate learner differences and needs.
b. Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning.
c. Explore and apply instructional design principles to create innovative digital learning environments that engage and support learning.
6. Facilitator
Educators facilitate learning with technology to support student achievement of the 2016 ISTE Standards for Students.
a. Foster a culture where students take ownership of their learning goals and outcomes in both independent and group settings.
b. Manage the use of technology and student learning strategies in digital platforms, virtual environments, hands-on makerspaces or in the field.
c. Create learning opportunities that challenge students to use a design process and computational thinking to innovate and solve problems
d. Model and nurture creativity and creative expression to communicate ideas, knowledge or connections.
Reflection
Creating a one-day lesson plan was more difficult than I originally anticipated. In working through this artifact, I've re-written my ideas on directions I wanted to take around five times - each time narrowing down my focus to something that could actually be accomplished within a single class period. To design this lesson, I went back to my time in high school English Literature and focused on two books that I feel weren't given enough time or exploration during my time. In reviewing the Idaho Standards, I found that a key focus is that "Students will demonstrate knowledge of early-twentieth-century foundational works of American literature, and other literary canons, including how two or more texts from the same period treat similar themes or topics".
This instantly brought to mind the dystopian focus of the late 1940s. This time period was influenced by the fallout from WWII and writers were envisioning a very bleak future for the world as a whole. Bringing two text together that exemplify this dystopian focus was the basis for my lesson plan. Incorporating resources such as YouTube allow me to broaden the conversation from "this is how the authors saw the future" to "how have modern day visionaries taken these texts and applied them to modern cinema". I believe this approach brings the dystopian ideas of a post war torn nation into something tangible to students who have, and hopefully never will, never experienced something on this scale.
This assignment helped me to better time manage activities in a classroom setting. The need to designate a set amount of time for activities is one aspect of lesson planning I had not thought much on in previous activities, but was a main focus for me during this project. In the future, when creating lesson plans for my classroom, I would like to use a program such as MyHistorio (http://www.myhistro.com/personal-business-education/#personal), or other timeline mapping software, to help keep track of the daily activities and track semester progress.
