Educate+Ideas

__**Goals for Technology in SCIED (1/16/09)**__

Experience the potential of different technologies

1) "Man on the Street" Private Universe Videos

Groups will use a flip video camera to capture live interviews of people trying to solve the batteries and bulbs challenge. Each group will have a battery, bulb and length of wire and ask people how they could attach the three so as to light the bulb. Use the data to understand common misconceptions about batteries and bulbs but also to investigate the role of misconceptions in their student's learning.

__Utilize a variety of visual representations__

1) Plant Photo Journal

Each day, take a picture of your plant and measure/record height also noting other changes eg: color, buds, leaves etc. Sequence pictures and caption them to display and explain the growth and development of plants. Also create a growth chart utilizing the height measurements and describe observed changes. As a group discuss the affordances of a photo journal vs graph what are the advantages and drawbacks of each, what does each medium allow a child to see/do which the other does not? How could these be utilized in other ways in a science classroom?

__Deepen thinking around readings__

1) Blog entries as responses to reading Big Three Summary Points from each reading Exemplary Quote Connection outside of the reading (own schooling, placement etc) Question/Concern on the reading 2) Students respond to others' blog entries via comments and/or trackbacks Pose comment prompts (probing, challenge, clarify, answer question etc) 3) Diversify responses to readings utilizing a variety of web based applications Video blog response (quick capture on YouTube) Photo response with captioning "Message Board" (asynchronous conversation) on/about specific prompt/quote

__**How can we address the core concepts of SCIED 458 using the 5Es and technology**__

__Laptop based technologies__

iPhoto, iMovie, Garage Band, StudioCode, Inspiration, Comic Life, ProScope

__Web 2.0 Technologies__

blogs, wikis, google docs, google reader, podcasts, flickr, twitter, youtube, social bookmarking (Diigo)

__What trainings do we need?__

__Software wish lists__

__What does the day in and day out of in class time look like with laptops?__

__Key Assignments for 458 and how could technology enhance them in some way?__


 * communicating around artifacts

Pendulums – google docs and real time data collection

Plants – affordances and drawbacks of graphs/charts vs photography (time lapse?) to capture plant life cycles

Magnets & Circuitry – podcasts (like private universe, interview people on street!), iMovie – (reason for misconception research) to dispel/teach about misconceptions

Teaching analysis – video analysis via Studiocode

Instead if welcome emails, do a welcome podcast (all instructors together, unity and cohesion)

Food webs – create a comic life

Wiki – lesson planning across content groups

Wisconsin Fast Plants, Corn Plants -- time lapse photography

Corn sprouting investigation: predicting sprouting needs, accumulating/grouping predictions, display as Venn diagram, using ???

Video blogging option using isight cameras and/or flip video

my history as a science learner via podcasts