Standard 2.1 Content Standards & Student Technology Standards
Candidates model and facilitate the design and implementation of technology-enhanced learning experiences aligned with student content standards and student technology standards. (PSC 2.1/ISTE 2a)
Artifact: Internet Lesson Plan
Reflection:
The artifact provided for this standard was designed and implemented with an advanced anatomy and physiology teacher, Ms. Hartley-Lewis at Marietta High School. The main goal was to take a lesson that we had created and implemented in the past that combined content standards with student technology standards and increase the learning outcome by creating a more authentic lesson. Students working in differentiated groups of 3-4, were to create/design a magazine or journal that is informative and creative with a focus on the cell, tissues and histology. There was to be a minimum of 5 major informative articles (2 or more pages) and 5 short stories (a page or less). It needed to have: Cover Page, Table of Content, Editorials (letters to and from the editor), Articles, Advertisements, and Graphics.
This artifact demonstrates mastery of modeling and facilitating the design and implementation of a technology enhanced learning experience that is aligned with student content standards and student technology standards. I modeled and facilitated the design and implementation of this project with Ms. Hartley-Lewis. We worked together to take the lesson from a basic research paper to a group collaborative journal that links the cell, tissue, and histology content standard with technology standards. This project was made up of four class lessons and was quite extensive. The student technology standards that were addressed in this lesson were standards 1 through 5 of the NETS-S. The students used technology for creativity, research, collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and digital citizenship.
Completing this lesson for the third time with these new enhancements I learned that using engaging technology and creating authentic lessons for students not only increases the work the students put into a product it also leads to better products in which the students display a more thorough understanding of the content. I feel like this lesson has grown and has become stronger but I also think we will take it one step further next year. Ms. Hartley-Lewis and I believe that the next step would be to add some input from the scientific community, maybe include an interview with a cell biologist. We would like to expand this beyond the classroom in order to allow the students to see the use of science outside of the classroom.
Creating this artifact improved student learning in this class on this standard. The students walked away with a solid understanding of the standards and they also walked away knowing how to create a document collaboratively online. The impact was assessed by the rubric created to grade this assignment.
The artifact provided for this standard was designed and implemented with an advanced anatomy and physiology teacher, Ms. Hartley-Lewis at Marietta High School. The main goal was to take a lesson that we had created and implemented in the past that combined content standards with student technology standards and increase the learning outcome by creating a more authentic lesson. Students working in differentiated groups of 3-4, were to create/design a magazine or journal that is informative and creative with a focus on the cell, tissues and histology. There was to be a minimum of 5 major informative articles (2 or more pages) and 5 short stories (a page or less). It needed to have: Cover Page, Table of Content, Editorials (letters to and from the editor), Articles, Advertisements, and Graphics.
This artifact demonstrates mastery of modeling and facilitating the design and implementation of a technology enhanced learning experience that is aligned with student content standards and student technology standards. I modeled and facilitated the design and implementation of this project with Ms. Hartley-Lewis. We worked together to take the lesson from a basic research paper to a group collaborative journal that links the cell, tissue, and histology content standard with technology standards. This project was made up of four class lessons and was quite extensive. The student technology standards that were addressed in this lesson were standards 1 through 5 of the NETS-S. The students used technology for creativity, research, collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and digital citizenship.
Completing this lesson for the third time with these new enhancements I learned that using engaging technology and creating authentic lessons for students not only increases the work the students put into a product it also leads to better products in which the students display a more thorough understanding of the content. I feel like this lesson has grown and has become stronger but I also think we will take it one step further next year. Ms. Hartley-Lewis and I believe that the next step would be to add some input from the scientific community, maybe include an interview with a cell biologist. We would like to expand this beyond the classroom in order to allow the students to see the use of science outside of the classroom.
Creating this artifact improved student learning in this class on this standard. The students walked away with a solid understanding of the standards and they also walked away knowing how to create a document collaboratively online. The impact was assessed by the rubric created to grade this assignment.