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Week 7: Secondary Education Using the World Wide Web
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. How might you use some of the following websites in instructional design for your classroom?
2. How might you use some of the following websites for use by students on Internet computers?Secondary School Links (Some of the following lists of links contain many sites for younger students)
Beat the Calculator! http://forum.swarthmore.edu/k12/mathtips/beatcalc.html
Assignments:
NiceNet Assignment
Post your short reviews of a few websites you found useful and how you might use them in a classroom situation.
In-depth Website or Software Review
Be working on your in-depth, 2- page review of a website or software program, using the criteria found in Week 6. (Accessibility, Navigation, Multimedia Components, Content, Target Audience.) You can submit it to me at our November 16 class or email to me as an attachment.
Technology Lesson
Be planning your lesson for our November 16 class, using some sort of technology in a classroom setting. You can use a computer website, a software program, printer, digital camera, scanner, etc. Please bring a copy of your lesson plan to share with the other members of the class.
Graduate Assignment
Be writing your 2-page lesson plans for three proposed technology lessons. Include
- 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
