Friday, January 16, 2009
Reflection Journal #1
Recently, I have been struggling with how to incorporate technology into my science cirriculum. The cirriculum for my district is constructivist. The children work with materials that they will or have encountered, then they work with partners to figure out how parts work together. I read parts of the article written above in my first resource log and a part resonated with me. Technology with lesson has to fit the pedagogy. That idea echoed what a trainer an colluege of mine were talking about with this particular science cirriculum. Maybe it does not need techonology. Maybe technology is not what it needs to be effective. However, also because of this article, I realized I was able to incorporate it successfully. The unit is about electricity and it is for fourth grade students. I assigned by children a famous person who contributed to the study of electricity, and gave them a web site to research this person. They are creating powerpoint presentations with a partner that will showcase the infomation they have found. I believe the most valuable part of this lesson is they are leaning to use power point effectively and meaningfully. They will need to learn this technology for furture use. I look forward to reading more articles to give myself more insight into effective instruction.
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Another great use of technology in science is to find sites that give demonstrations of things that you could not possibly do in the classroom. I used one of the NASA sites for my 5th graders to show them an actual rocket launch when we were learning about space. For kids who live in Missouri, this is about the only time they will ever see a rocket launching. It helped them to see a visualization of something that they were learning about.
ReplyDeleteAnother great thing is a webquest.
I'm actually working on integrating a webquest into a unit I'm teaching on electricity.
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