ICE Workshop
FCA3108: Journey with Children
Friday, January 25
Session 1 - Room CC103
10:45-11:30 a.m.

FCA3108: Journey with Children

Technology is a powerful tool that can be much more than a skill and drill exercise during a 45-minute session in the lab. To be used effectively, technology should encourage higher order thinking, cooperative grouping, and project-based learning. Discover tips for classroom management, examples for using technology in the elementary curriculum, and tips for assessing student learning.

1. Explore Reading and Writing Online Resources
   1. Lesson Plan Template - tips for modifying your instruction for technology integration and aligning them to standards
   2. Identify Teacher Productivity Resources you can use.
   3. Identify Student productivity resources they can use.
   4. Identify assessment tools they can use.

Strengthening Curriculum Using the Internet

1. The "Why" and "When" to integrate:
   1. Addresses Information Literacy Standards
   2. Three tips for using the Internet:
      1. enables students to do something they couldn't do before
      2. allows students to do something they could do before, but now they can do it better
      3. helps me meet my teaching goals and objectives for student learning
   3. Developing Your Lesson
      1. Basic format for constructing your lesson: KWHLS
      2. Online form you can download
      3. Locate lessons online
      4. Progression of student ease for using the Internet
         1. awareness
         2. interest
         3. trial
         4. seamless integration
      5. Use the standards
         1. select an online activity
         2. identify which standards you are targeting
         3. Determine how you can include additional activities that meet the standards
         4. Select an assessment tool to measure how well your students achieved the standard
      6. Decide how you will assess student learning
      7. Link to Standards
2. What do my students need to know before we begin?
   1. Answer the following questions:
      1. Do they know what the Internet is?
      2. Do they know how to use the Internet responsibly?
      3. Do they know how to find information?
      4. Do they know how to critically evaluate the sources?
      5. Do they know how to cite the resources they find?
   2. Teach students how to use the Internet responsibly using these tips:
      1. Safe communication - visit this lesson plan on how to help your students create their own Internet safety rules.
      2. How to assess the information they find:
         1. visit this lesson plan on how to help your students cricially evaluate the information they find
         2. download this rubric for evaluating web resources
3. How do I integrate the Internet?
   1. Gathering information
      1. Searching Strategies - Searching is a CINCH!
      2. Treasure Hunts
      3. Web Quests
      4. Take your Class on a Virtual Field Trip
      5. Interactive Games
   2. Collaborating withpeople outside of yourclassroom walls
      1. Three kinds of collaborative projects
         1. Interpersonal Exchange
            1. Ask an Expert
            2. Electronic Appearances in the past
            3. Electronic Appearances today
            4. Key Pals
            5. Impersonations
         2. Information Collection and Analysis
            1. Pooled Data Analysis
            2. Information Exchange-corporate
            3. Information Exchange-classroom
            4. Online Expeditions
         3. Problem Solving
            1. Social Action Projects
            2. Parallel Problem Solving
            3. Information Searches
            4. Sequential Problem Solving
            5. Peer Feedback
      2. For communication tips and hallmarks of a good collaborative project, and how to create and join a collaborative project, visit Collaborative Projects
   3. Publishing
      1. When students publish information, they should consider the following:
         1. information published by students should be more than a show 'n tell
         2. information should engage the visitor
            1. offers relevant information
            2. offers interaction with the content
            3. collaborative work with fellow students
            4. encourages higher order thinking
         3. Consider what available software and hardware you have access to
         4. Guidelines for student publishing
      2. Visit Designing a School Web Site for more guidelines