Transforming Learning by Robert W. Maloy, Ruth-Ellen Verck-O’Loughlin, Sharon A. Edwards and Beverly Park Woolf with new technologies

Chapter 3 Developing Lessons with Technology

Lesson Development

• Academic Content- What to Teach

• Teaching Methods- How to Teach

• Learning Assessments - What Students have Learned

There are 3 interrelated elements

involved in lesson planning

What to Teach:Using technology opens up a wide range of

resources for teachers as they make choices about academic content. Some examples include: Internet

search engines, electronic databases, online encyclopedias, blogs, and wikis.

Using Technology in Lesson Development

How to Teach

Teachers must decide what methods and procedures the are going to use when teaching. Technology can

support this process in a variety of ways:

- Presentation software-Visual thinking software

- Web-based diagram-Teacher-developed websites

-threaded discussions and email-Podcasts, blogs and wikis

- Interactive software- WebQuests

-Intelligent tutoring systems- Digital cameral and movie making software

-Assistive technologies

Knowing What Students Have

LearnedBefore, during and after teaching a lesson teachers need to be able to assess student learning. There are many technology related tools that

make this job easier such as electronic tests and quizzes, digital

portfolios, personal response systems, online surveys, and online

evaluation rubrics.

Approaches to Lesson Planning

Student Learning Objectives: What will the students be able to do after the lesson is taught?

Objectives1. tell who

2.is going to do what3.when

4.how much or how often and 5.how it will be measured or evaluated.

• Stage 1: Identify desired results (enduring understandings and essential questions

• Stage 2: Determine acceptable evidence (assessment strategies)

• Stage 3: Plan learning experiences and instruction (objectives and methods)

Understanding by Design:

Using Technology in lesson Planning

- Many organizations provide downloadable lesson planning or

“UBD” templates.- TrackStar: a portal for teachers to

upload lesson plans

Meeting Educational Standards

National curriculum frameworks guide teachers’ decisions

about “what to teach” but leave room for

teachers to decide “how to teach”.

Assessing and Evaluating Students

• There are 3 factors that influence teachers as they think about assessment: their personal experiences, standardized testing, and teacher tests.

• Assessment happens throughout a unit or lesson while evaluation usually comes at the end of a unit.

• Performance assessments give students a variety of different ways to present what they have learned. Students are then assessed using performance rubrics.

• Tests assessments: norm reference tests compare students to other students while criterion referenced tests compare students’ performance to set standards.

• Standards based assessments are a new variation of standardized tests where there are specific guidelines of what students should know and be able to do at each grade level.

Using Technology for Assessment

Technology Tools Assessments - Word Processing and Power Point - Papers and presentations by students

- Digital portfolios - Examples of work completed by students

- Videos or Podcasts - Performances by students