The Final Project

The Plant Project: (click for full website) Plants as Food, Plants as Fuel.

Using the Internet for Instruction

I like Collaborative Problem Solving and have chosen the Webquest model by Bernie Dodge; Webquest.org, for this project. I have used this format for another lesson as part of Edtech 502 which you can view here.

Stem Cells is a good lesson for students to do research on, but the topic is huge. I want the students to focus their research on specific sites to save them time and point them at the content they need. The links I provide are still to many for one student to work through in the time allotted, the students need to work cooperatively and collaboratively to complete the task effectively.

Ethics 1.2 Shall protect the individual rights of access to materials of varying points of view. The concept of "Intellectual freedom" advocates the right of individuals to explore a wide range of information and opinions. Library, media, and technology professionals often have a major influence over access to materials and other information resources that are available to learners. It is essential that this access be guided by a policy that ensures availability to a broad range of information, ideas, and opinions.

Communication: Podcast for Professional Development

Podcasts for Professional Development

Podcasts are a convenient way to reach many people. As a leader, I can publish my views on technology with a human voice; emotion included. My listeners can subscribe to my podcasts and have the latest casts automatically downloaded onto their mobile devices. Personally, I like to listen to the podcasts I subscribe to as I drive to work; I can't read as I drive but I can still consume the latest goings on in the fields I am interested in. Podcasts allow listeners to come into contact with my ideas for using technology at a time that suits them and they can be doing something else as they listen! Teacher time is precious and finding a way to offer them PD without taking more time seems like an ideal use of technology.

Today's Customers

This artifact demonstrates an understanding of where users are and how to move them forward in their use of new technologies. Link to the published Piktochart here.

AECT Standards 2012: Content Pedagogy

AECT Standard 2 - Content Pedagogy:
Candidates develop as reflective practitioners able to demonstrate effective implementation of educational technologies and processes based on contemporary content and pedagogy.

Indicators:
 • Creating - Candidates apply content pedagogy to create appropriate applications of processes and technologies to improve learning and performance outcomes. (p. 1)
• Using - Candidates implement appropriate educational technologies and processes based on appropriate content pedagogy. (p. 141)
• Assessing/Evaluating - Candidates demonstrate an inquiry process that assesses the adequacy of learning and evaluates the instruction and implementation of educational technologies and processes (p. 116-117) grounded in reflective practice.
• Managing - Candidates manage appropriate technological processes and resources to provide supportive learning communities, create flexible and diverse learning environments, and develop and demonstrate appropriate content pedagogy. (p. 175-193)
• Ethics - Candidates design and select media, technology, and processes that emphasize the diversity of our society as a multicultural community. (p. 296)

NOTE: Parenthetical page references are to Educational Technology: A Definition with Commentary (2008, A. Januszewski & M. Molenda, Eds., Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.)