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Week 7: Secondary Education
Many of today's secondary students have had computer experience for much of their time spent in school. State and federal grants have connected schools to the Internet, with its world-wide reach and communication capability. More and more homes are equipped with computers. Older teenage students often have more computer experience than their teachers do!
Secondary education sites, for middle and high school students, as expected, tend to be more sophisticated than those of earlier grades. Reading content is more extensive, print is usually smaller, and the bright colors and images of younger grades gives way to homework sites and information libraries. Interactivity is becoming more common, in which students make choices and input into sites, and the site responds to the student, through scoring quizzes, playing music written by the student, or sequencing a story in pictures according to the student's choices. A few high school teachers allow their students to post homework at internet sites. Many schools now have their own webpages, for the purpose of communicating with parents, including email addresses, calendars of events, and news items. Schools can collaborate with each other on project using email, called epals, and in sharing web resources.
Focus Questions:
1. What are some technology problems facing teachers at the secondary level?
2. What is the importance of teacher inservice in technology? Is the state of Idaho on the right track with its required technology competency assessment for teachers?
3. How might you use some of the following websites for use by students on Internet computers? Are all academic areas open to Internet learning, i.e., do some subjects lend themselves to Internet research or interactive websites better than others?Secondary School Links (Some of the following lists of links contain many sites for younger students)
There are many sites, so follow your interests!
Beat the Calculator! http://mathforum.org/k12/mathtips/beatcalc.htmll
Assignments:
Blackboard.tvcc.cc Assignment (or email if you are unable to access Blackboard)
Post your short reviews of a few websites you found useful and how you might use them in a classroom situation. Also post your answers to two of the focus questions.
Technology Lessons
Be working on your 3 technology-related lesson plans for our November 8 and November 29 class, using some sort of technology in a classroom setting. You can use a computer website, a software program such as word processing, email, spreadsheet, or graphics program, printer, digital camera, scanner, etc. Please bring a copy of your lesson plan to share with the other members of the class.
Include the following in the lesson plans:
- the objectives to be learned,
- strategies for teaching, for example, an attention-getter; how the material will be presented (demonstration by the teacher, software program, reading a textbook, listening to a tape, etc.),
- student learning activities (students following instructions in setting up recording equipment, students playing an instrument or singing,)
- evaluation -- did the students follow instructions and achieve the learning objective? How will you assess how they learned?
Educational Media and Technology
EOU Malheur County Center (541) 889-7468 or (541) 889-6222
