Link to UDL Guidelines Worksheet
Friday, May 27, 2011
UDL Guidelines
My lesson on Touch Football is a unit designed for 10th graders in physical education. I felt very good about the lesson as I went through the UDL guidelines checklist. I do not have a perfect lesson, but I am fairly happy with the results. I believe the lesson provides the students with learning opportunities in multiple ways (lecture, demonstration, notebooks, Moodle, collaboration, feedback, practice, and assessment). The students get to work together after learning the skills and also evaluate another team and provide them feedback. During the process, I discovered items that need to be added or improved upon. All of the text items need to be decoded for the students and currently there are no assistive technologies to help the students with the technology parts. The assessment piece could also be bulked up some. I need to create a end of the unit rubric for performance and team play. Also, a self assessment rubric for the students regarding their social behavior during the lesson would also need to be added. Overall, I believe it is a strong lesson that will become stronger with the new changes based on the UDL guidelines.
Link to UDL Guidelines Worksheet
Link to UDL Guidelines Worksheet
Saturday, May 14, 2011
CEP 811 Evaluation of Learning Material
A review of Understanding the Nutrition Facts Label.
This resource is a interactive lesson on how to read a nutrition facts label. The lesson presents information on how to read a food label. The students move their cursor over different parts of the screen for more information. Then, the students take a quiz. It is a valuable tool for the students to learn after they have learned about the different nutrients that food has to offer. Nutrition is one of the topics I am always looking for something new to use as it is such a vast topic and hard to get the students to understand the importance of. I can see the use of this site as an assignment on a Moodle page for the students to complete at home as a reinforcement of the information taught in class.
Quality of Content
This resource is a interactive lesson on how to read a nutrition facts label. The lesson presents information on how to read a food label. The students move their cursor over different parts of the screen for more information. Then, the students take a quiz. It is a valuable tool for the students to learn after they have learned about the different nutrients that food has to offer. Nutrition is one of the topics I am always looking for something new to use as it is such a vast topic and hard to get the students to understand the importance of. I can see the use of this site as an assignment on a Moodle page for the students to complete at home as a reinforcement of the information taught in class.
Quality of Content
- The site does present valid concepts about how to read a food label. Students in high school have seen the labels before, but need to learn how to read and decipher the information for their own diet needs. It is a simple concept that carries a lot of importance.
- This site offers educationally significant concepts for educators teaching about nutrition. After students have learned about what the nutrients do for the body, they need to know how to find the foods with the right nutrients. Or, they will be able to tell if a food is helping or hurting their body.
- The information of reading food labels would fall in the explanation and demonstration stages of learning. After viewing the presentation and taking the quiz, the students should be able to read a food label and determine what nutrients they are eating in a particular food. This lesson is aimed at middle and high school students learning about nutrition in health class. The interactive portion of the presentation will engage the students into the topic of reading food labels as the presentation is full of information and the quiz looming keeps the students mind on the information. This presentation can easily be integrated into a curriculum as a in class quiz or as an assignment on Moodle, depending on technology available. This type of presentation can be utilized in a variety of different topics in all subject areas. The presentation type allows for the uses to interact with the information and it tests their knowledge after the presentation. Good learning assignments can be developed easily with this type of application and it would just take the time to transfer lecture material to the presentation.
- The layout of the site works well for this type of assignment. The buttons are easy to find and select, but it was a little hard at first to figure out which label was which and the text on the labels can be a little hard to read even with the magnifier. The material is very easy to follow and the students should not get lost unless they do not put the cursor over each part of the food label. The presentation tells the users when they have gotten a question right or wrong and it gives them the chance to correct their answers. The presentation is easy to use and does not require much technical support to use. The material is presented in a way that is familiar, clear and allows them to control the pace of the lesson. The presentation is visually appealing to students and presents the information in a way that is more stimulating that the usual lecture.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Personal Learning Reflection
Looking back on the past two months, I have learned a lot. I came into this experierence having heard of some of the Web 2.0 terms, but had no idea what they were. I can now speak on what Web 2.0 means and how it can be used. Before I took this course, my integration of technology into teaching was to have the students use word processing and had just started to use Moodle. The technology I integrate into my classes needs to educationally appropriate and useful to the students.
The way I was educated and learned to educate was with the lecture learn method. The teacher stood in front of the class and lectured, students took notes, read the textbook, and took a test at the end of the unit. This class has shown me a new way to teach and keep the students engaged. While there is still a place for the teacher lecture, some students learn that way, different techniques need to be imployed to improve learning for all students. The TPACK system we learned about has the teacher use their pedegogy, content knowledge and technology together to help the students learn and advance in a technically advanced socitey. Also, the integration of different technologies will allow different learning styles to be accomendated. Teaching one way only restricts the learning enviornment. Allowing the students to do research, create different types of projects like Prezis, Glogsters, Podcasts and Screencasts, will give the students a sense of ownership in the class and material and allow them to do some of the teaching in class.
The Internet has become a very powerful tool in education. I have used it in my class for research purposes and not much else. I know the students probably have a wider range of knowledge of the type of tools and games available on the Internet. My knowledge of what is available on the Internet has increased with this class and has helped to ease some of the fears I had about it's use in the classroom. Using the Internet in the classroom requires the use of expensive machines, and I believe that the more I use them, the more at ease I will feel letting the students use them. Technology and the Internet are here to stay and I am planning ways to integrate both into my teaching and making sure the students are being productive in a safe environment. One of the main advantages and disadvantages of the Internet is the available information for research. It is very plentiful, but provides opportunities for people to steal materials and use them as their own. The digital citizenship is a very important aspect to teach to the students.
In my personal growth plan and my technology plan, I want to learn how to use the new technologies available to me, along with some that are not currently available to me due to funding. In the course of this class, I have become familiar with cloud computing, social bookmarking, digital citizenship, blogging, and wikis. I feel confident in my abilities to use these technologies and to integrate them into my teaching. I do not know everything yet, but I am going to keep learning. The SIG group project help me to see how a collaborative assignment can work and allowed me to explore how to make physical education and health more relevant and engaging for the students. I was able to explore the topics of active gaming and heart rate monitors that will play a huge role in physical education in the future. This type of group project is what I envision for possibly both physical education and health.
My goals will remain the same as outlined in the personal growth plan and technology plan. I want to keep exploring ways to integrate technology into my classes, which means I have to keep using them to learn their capabilities. Also, my personal learning network has grown with the advent of the social networks and RSS feeds. What a great resource for learning and sharing ideas. The main goal I want to add is to become better at teaching digital citizenship. It is too easy for students to take someone else's work and claim it for their own. I plan on teaching that topic at the beginning of classes to help solve this problem.
I want to keep learning and evolving as a teacher. This will involve me learning and integrating technologies, following my PLN, and finding ways to fund new programs for technology. This course has enlightened me to the future of education and I just want to keep learning.
The way I was educated and learned to educate was with the lecture learn method. The teacher stood in front of the class and lectured, students took notes, read the textbook, and took a test at the end of the unit. This class has shown me a new way to teach and keep the students engaged. While there is still a place for the teacher lecture, some students learn that way, different techniques need to be imployed to improve learning for all students. The TPACK system we learned about has the teacher use their pedegogy, content knowledge and technology together to help the students learn and advance in a technically advanced socitey. Also, the integration of different technologies will allow different learning styles to be accomendated. Teaching one way only restricts the learning enviornment. Allowing the students to do research, create different types of projects like Prezis, Glogsters, Podcasts and Screencasts, will give the students a sense of ownership in the class and material and allow them to do some of the teaching in class.
The Internet has become a very powerful tool in education. I have used it in my class for research purposes and not much else. I know the students probably have a wider range of knowledge of the type of tools and games available on the Internet. My knowledge of what is available on the Internet has increased with this class and has helped to ease some of the fears I had about it's use in the classroom. Using the Internet in the classroom requires the use of expensive machines, and I believe that the more I use them, the more at ease I will feel letting the students use them. Technology and the Internet are here to stay and I am planning ways to integrate both into my teaching and making sure the students are being productive in a safe environment. One of the main advantages and disadvantages of the Internet is the available information for research. It is very plentiful, but provides opportunities for people to steal materials and use them as their own. The digital citizenship is a very important aspect to teach to the students.
In my personal growth plan and my technology plan, I want to learn how to use the new technologies available to me, along with some that are not currently available to me due to funding. In the course of this class, I have become familiar with cloud computing, social bookmarking, digital citizenship, blogging, and wikis. I feel confident in my abilities to use these technologies and to integrate them into my teaching. I do not know everything yet, but I am going to keep learning. The SIG group project help me to see how a collaborative assignment can work and allowed me to explore how to make physical education and health more relevant and engaging for the students. I was able to explore the topics of active gaming and heart rate monitors that will play a huge role in physical education in the future. This type of group project is what I envision for possibly both physical education and health.
My goals will remain the same as outlined in the personal growth plan and technology plan. I want to keep exploring ways to integrate technology into my classes, which means I have to keep using them to learn their capabilities. Also, my personal learning network has grown with the advent of the social networks and RSS feeds. What a great resource for learning and sharing ideas. The main goal I want to add is to become better at teaching digital citizenship. It is too easy for students to take someone else's work and claim it for their own. I plan on teaching that topic at the beginning of classes to help solve this problem.
I want to keep learning and evolving as a teacher. This will involve me learning and integrating technologies, following my PLN, and finding ways to fund new programs for technology. This course has enlightened me to the future of education and I just want to keep learning.
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