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**A Problem-Based Lesson Plan ** **Lesson Title **: How can technology be used in the classroom? **Grade Level and Subject **: 8th grade English Language Arts
 * Should Technology Be Incorporated into Classroom Instruction? **

**Content Standards **: 8-6.1 Design inquiry projects including a central idea (thesis) by constructing questions, accessing resources, and organizing information. 8-6.4 Use a variety of reference materials including primary and secondary sources.

8-6.5 Use interviewing techniques to gather information from primary sources. 8-6.8 Create a works cited list crediting primary and secondary sources. **ISTE NETS-S **: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">2. Communication and collaboration <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">3. Research and information fluency <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">4. Critical thinking, problem solving, & decision making <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">5. Digital citizenship **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Instructional Objective **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Students will work collaboratively to find primary and secondary sources that identify the use of technology in classroom instruction. Students will interview teachers and students as their primary sources and use internet research methods to identify secondary sources that describe possible uses of technology in a classroom environment. Upon completing research on this topic, students must create a works cited page documenting both primary and secondary sources. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Action **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">:


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Instructional Activities ** ||  **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Materials and Resources **  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Pre-established background knowledge of primary and secondary resources and internet research methods. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">None ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">In a whole group setting, have students brainstorm ways that they have seen technology used in their classroom instruction. List these on white board in classroom. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">White board, marker ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">In collaborative groups, have students create a plan of action for their research of technology usage in classroom instruction. At this point students should identify possible interview candidates, questions that they will ask the teachers and students they interview, and ways they will use the internet to research their question. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">None ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">With a laptop provided to each group, students will collaboratively research possible uses for technology in the classroom using search engines and strategies for searching. Students will record information and create citations using the website sonofcitation.com. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Laptop with internet access for each group ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Each group will interview two students and two teachers to identify information from primary sources about the use of technology in classroom instruction. Students will also create citations for each primary source that is interviewed. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Laptop with internet access for each group. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Students will record their research findings in a slide presentation and create a final works cited page for their primary and secondary sources. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Laptop with internet access for each group, software for slide show (student choice of presentation method) ||

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Monitor **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">:


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Ongoing Assessment(s) || * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Observation of groups as they work collaboratively
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Team rubric—students will complete based on work of teammates
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ask probing questions while monitoring students at work
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Final product rubric ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Accommodations and Extensions || * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Provide guidance and help to struggling groups
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Group according to academic strengths ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Back-up Plan || * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Use of computer lab is available in the event that laptops are not ||

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Lesson Reflections and Notes: ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">tba **

TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION FOR MEANINGFUL CLASSROOM USE
= Daily Lesson GAME Plan Template =

Schoology Collaboration || Related Lessons: Problem Based Learning || English Language Arts || Unit: Technology in Education || GOALS ||
 * Lesson Title:
 * 8th Grade
 * Prior to this lesson, students worked collaboratively to identify both primary and secondary sources that addressed the use of technology in the classroom. Students then created a works cited page listing both their primary and secondary resources.

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Content Standards: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">8-4.1 Use pre-writing strategies such as asking questions, taking notes, making <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">lists, and using literary models. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">8-4.5 Use previously learned revision techniques to enhance meaning, clarity, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">tone**,** and progression of ideas. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">8-4.6 Use proofreading to edit for previously learned conventions <span style="color: fuchsia; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">8-4.8 Create documents using emerging technology.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">8-6.1 Design inquiry projects including a central idea (thesis) by constructing <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">questions, accessing resources, and organizing information. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">8-6.4 Use a variety of reference materials including primary and secondary <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">sources.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">8-6.5 Use interviewing techniques to gather information from primary sources. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">8-6.8 Create a works cited list crediting primary and secondary sources.

8-6.10 Use effective communication techniques for a specific audience or purpose in oral, written, or visual presentations.
 * ISTE NETS-S

þ Creativity and innovation þ Communication and collaboration þResearch and information fluency || þ Critical thinking, problem-solving, & decision-making þ Digital citizenship þ Technology operations and concepts ||

Instructional objective(s): The student will be able to communicate using the educational based social network schoology.com to create, edit, revise, and organize research findings on topic of technology usage in the classroom.


 * ACTION ||
 * Before-class preparation: ||






 * Prior to this activity, students will be familiarized with creating, editing, revising, and organizing findings from primary and secondary based sources in a research project. ||


 * During class ||
 * Time || Instructional Activities || Materials & Resources ||
 * 10 mins.
 * 10 mins.

50 mins. || Review previous work done on research project including primary and secondary sources, creating a works cited, and the format of the final project (to be completed during future lesson).

Allow students to work collaboratively to edit, revise, and organize findings from research of primary and secondary sources. Using schoology.com students will be able to work entirely in an electronic format. || Previous handouts and notes documented by collaborative groups.

Laptops, internet access ||

Notes: Student groupings, environmental modifications needed, etc. students grouped collaboratively in previous lesson; environment modified based on need of student groups and internet access—laptops acquired for this activity || MONITOR Ongoing assessment(s): Teacher will be able to access and review work completed through the use of schoology.com; circulate room to observe and assist as needed by collaborative groups. Accommodations and extensions: Students may work from home computers through the social networking site schoology.com in the event that additional time is necessary.|| ||

TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION FOR MEANINGFUL CLASSROOM USE
=  Daily Lesson GAME Plan Template   =

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Digital Storytelling <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(lesson will take place over the course of three hour long class periods) || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Related Lessons: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Problem Based Learning <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Schoology Collaboration || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">English Language Arts || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Unit: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Technology in Education <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> || ** GOALS ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Lesson Title:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">8th Grade
 * ** Prior to this lesson, students worked collaboratively to identify both primary and secondary sources that addressed the use of technology in the classroom. Students then created a works cited page listing both their primary and secondary resources. Students also created, revised, edited, and organized their research findings through online collaboration using the social networking site schoology.com. **

** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Content Standards: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">8-4.8 Create documents using emerging technology. <span style="color: fuchsia; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">8-6.10 Use effective communication techniques for a specific audience or purpose in oral, written, or visual presentations. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> þ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Creativity and innovation þ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Communication and collaboration þ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Research and information fluency  || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> þ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Critical thinking, problem-solving, & decision-making þ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Digital citizenship þ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Technology operations and concepts ||
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ISTE NETS-S **

** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Instructional objective(s): ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The student will compose a written script, identify video and still images, create a digital story, and share their product with their classmates. The digital story will be based on a series of student and teacher interviews, web-based research, and collaboration with group members on the topic of using technology in education. Students will be required to take a side on the topic in order to persuade their classmates whether or not incorporating technology into classroom education is a positive experience. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Before-class preparation: ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Prior to this activity, students have completed research and revisions on their findings in collaborative groups. Students have also reviewed both Photostory and Movie Maker, both of which are programs used throughout classes in our magnet program. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">170 mins. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Review previous work done on research project including primary and secondary sources, creating a works cited, and the format of the final project (to be completed during future lesson). <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Students will work collaboratively to create digital stories that will be used to persuade classmates based on pros and cons of technology integration in the classroom. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Previous handouts and notes documented by collaborative groups. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Laptops, internet access, Photostory or Movie Maker (based on group preference) ||
 * ** ACTION <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">  **  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">During class
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Time || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Instructional Activities  || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Materials & Resources  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">10 mins.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Notes: Student groupings, environmental modifications needed, etc. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">students grouped collaboratively in previous lesson; environment modified based on need of student groups and internet access—laptops acquired for this activity; all work done in class due to the collaborative nature of activity and in order to meet the needs of students who do not have access to computer or programs at home. ||  ** MONITOR ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Ongoing assessment(s): <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Teacher will act as facilitator and be available to assist students with technology problems. Circulate classroom in order to help collaborative groups and to keep students on task. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Accommodations and extensions: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">All work done in class in order to meet the needs of students with no technology access at home.


 * ** EVALUATE AND EXTEND **  ||

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Lesson reflections and notes: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The use of the PBL, social networking, and digital stories in combination is a way for students to have a well-rounded experience that will give them just a taste of what technology is available for them to use in their education. The collaboration of these three foundational tools also introduces students to the aspect of using multiple tools in order to create a final product. Often students are only required to learn one way and then submit what they have learned in a traditional poster or Power Point. This unit gives students multiple technology based ways to create more meaningful and memorable learning experiences for their future educational needs. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">