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Lesson Plan w/ Reflection

Technology Lesson Plan

Tierra Roberson

Fourth Grade

Education Technology

       I.            Overview and Background-

Students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of multiplication and division through technology.  The students have been practicing multiplication and division for the last two weeks.  The students will show their understanding by first doing a worksheet with various problems including multiplication and division.  The students should know the place value for long division and the times tables to complete long multiplication. This is important for the students to express what they know and use technology to help them showcase their knowledge. The students will log on to their ZapZap Math app and do the assessment assigned.

    II.            Objectives-

Students will be able to demonstrate multiplication and division.

Students will be able to implement their knowledge of division and multiplication on the ZapZap Math app.

 III.            Lesson Plan/Activities-

Students will review time tables and multiplication and long division.

They will complete a simple yet challenging worksheet that follows along with the Math app

Each student will be assigned a game to play on the app the showcase his/her full understanding of multiplication and division.

The students will show me the final results he/she made on the ZapZap Math app.



 IV.            Skills Learned-

·         Memory

·         Adding/subtracting/

·         Multiplying 3 digit place values/long division

V. Duration of Lesson- This activity should take about 30 minutes. The students will have 10 minutes to review. They will have the rest of the time to complete the app assignment.

VI. Reflection – The overall lesson was very productive. This method I chose to use to incorporate my curriculum with technology proved to be effective. My students were given the chance to showcase his/her understanding of adding and subtracting and how it is a key to solving long division. Since I know student love to use apps and games, the idea of using Zap Zap math was a great idea on my part. The students were excited to see what the website had in store for them. The only thing I would change about the lesson is the way it is presented.  I need to work on not rushing my students to come up with answer. I need to allow them to have time to process the new meaning and ideas and how they combine together. The pedagogical content was decent.  The students were able to show case their prior knowledge through the questions I asked them. The students were able to do hands-on learning. This strategy is useful when trying to keep the classroom engaged on the learning. The website/app helps me with instruction because the way the games break down math problems is how I break down math problems individually with my students. The technology is just extra practice the students can have fun doing. I gave the students worksheets to complete.  This is another form of extra practice with adding/subtracting and multiplication/long division.  This was solely to keep the minds working and remembering with repetition.

Integrating 3D Printing in Cirriculum

I believe adding 3D printing in the curriculum is a great idea for the learning environment. 3D printing fuels limitless creativity when students get to see, hold and test their ideas in real space. Bringing 3D printing into the classroom exposes learners to the same technologies they will encounter in their careers, giving them a jump-start on future challenges.

Our students have a lot to offer the world and their ideas should be made into reality.  There are plenty of websites that showcase work done by people using a 3D printer. One website includes Thingiverse.  On this site you can explore by grade level or subject area.  There are plenty of ideas students could choose from and make an original.  As I was exploring the website myself, I came across an idea that was practically beautiful.  It was a 3D model of a protractor except it shows the primary angles of degree in different colors.  The students are able to use their imagination beyond their own belief.

I had the opportunity to create an account with a website called Tinkercad. This website is slightly different than Thingiverse.  You can still see ideas and pictures on Tinkercad like you can on Thingivers, but you can also create your own ideas in a virtual space right there on the website.  It is convenient to those who want to express their ideas to the world.  It can be attached to 3D printer to print the final works of a student.  The website come equipped with shapes and a drawing pad to create one’s own idea of a shape.  You are able to import other pictures and 3D items to create an even bigger masterpiece.  The website is quite interesting to explore. 

I would love to have both the 3D printer and the Thinkercad access in my classroom.  I want my students to know that with creativity, determination, and hard work that anything is possible.  3D printing would give students the satisfaction that they actually came up with an idea created an original piece of art or work. Implementing 3D printing in curriculum would give students something to look forward to and make learning more enjoyable. 

TPACK Reflections

I had the opportunity to read and evaluate two different research papers concerning Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge.  The first paper describes what exactly TPACK is and the pieces that make up the system.  The second paper discusses preservice teachers compared to expert teachers and how TPACK affects the classroom environment. I was also privileged enough to watch a video on YouTube about Khan Academy. It is a technology system that helps aid in the educational success for all students.

The first paper entitled Teachers’ Technological Pedagogical Content and Learning Activity Types: Curriculum-based Technology Integration Reframed by Judith Harris and Punya Mishra and Matthew Koehler.  This paper breaks down what TPACK is and how teachers use it in the classroom. “TPACK emphasizes the connection among technologies, curriculum content, and specific pedagogical approaches, demonstrating how teachers’ understandings of technologies, pedagogy, and content can interact with one another to produce effective discipline-based teaching with educational technologies” (Harris 397). Teachers must apply TPACK to their classrooms in an effective way.  When doing activities, the teacher should incorporate TPACK. It encompasses understanding and communicating representations of concept using technologies, appropriate pedagogical techniques are required to teach content in different ways to students of different learning needs, knowledge of what makes lessons easy or difficult to learn all while incorporating technologies. I believe TPACK is an effective system to keep teachers on track of what they need in his or her curriculum.

The second research paper I read is entitled WebPack: Future Teachers’ Plans and Practices with Emerging Tools by Ugar Kale, Cheng-Hsien Wu, and Christopher Clausell.  In this research I discovered there are many useful Web tools out there to aid any teachers in teaching about a specific subject. There are websites where students can access and gain knowledge or there are apps and games where students can relearn, practice, or discover new ways of learning.  No child learns the same so to have options on how to teach with technology is a great aspect to preservice and veteran teachers. This review on TPACK goes into more depth about the technologies that cosine with grade level. Majority of elementary school teachers use Classroom Tools such as smart boards, clickers, and projectors.  These items are convenient for the teachers to display work or the activity for the day.

Speaking of convenience, the Web Tool YouTube is very helpful. I looked up a Khan Academy video on physics.  The tool uses many different ways of relaying a message.  The person is talking; giving step by step instructions but also giving visual in a multitude of color.  This video was effective in teaching me the unknowns of physics and how to use the equations.  The break downs and explanations opened my views on how physics can actually be worth learning.

Technology is a useful resource that students enjoy learning from and with.  I would allow my student to use all types of technologies to see what technology best fits his or her learning needs.   

Technology Reflection 1

I enjoyed reading the various articles.  The readings helped me better understand the challenges and advances of today's technology. There are many technological advances that range from personal to business like environments. While reading one of the articles, I felt uncomfortable. I am not sure how I feel about animal parts in humans. Overall the readings were intriguing.

In the article "25 inventions of 2016", I enjoyed the advances in solar panel energy.  The solar panels are incorporated into the building of the house.  I am a strong believer of saving the environment from human activity or at least limiting it. In this same article is speaks of Goodyear wanting to produce wheels that are spherical in shape.  I think this is a cool and very innovative idea.  I would love to see this one day because that leads to hover cars. Science fiction wouldn't be so fiction anymore. I found interest in reading about the artificial pancreas.  More and more of Americans suffer from diabetes.   Majority of the time the pancreas continues to fail.  An artificial one that reads your sugar levels for you every five minutes would help those in need. Yet, there are some downfalls to an artificial pancreas, like technology failure or the body pH balance changes. One last idea I enjoyed from this articles was the invention of barbie dolls that resemble realistic women of today. These dolls could help young ladies suffering from self-esteem issues or acceptance from peers cope with independence and self love.

In the article "I Future: Best Inventions of 2015", it discusses transparent trucks.  I believe this to be a great idea especially for those who travel often and far.  I travel 10 and half hours from here to Houston and there are plenty of 18 wheeler trucks on the road. I feel much safer if the truck driver could see me at all times on the road. Further in the article, I read about he baby monitor.  This would be an invention that would change the health system forever.   I fully support the technology to check the child's temperature and if the child is becoming sick. This is a helpful tool especially for first time mothers. My stepmother has recently discovered that she is allergic to gluten.  It's funny because she loves bread.  The invention of gluten free and healthier pasta  is amazing. I love Italian food and less carbs while enjoying my favorite food is a dream come true. I also like the invention of an ocean vacuum.  I want to save the environment one day and it seems that technology is already underway. The ocean shouldn't have trash in it in the first place but that's a different story.

Robots!  I am not to sure how I feel about robots with emotions and human-like thinking.  I believe robots should be invented as an assistance to humans.  In the article "Teaching Robots Right from Wrong", it establishes that the army has used robots to go into battle with machine guns yet they are still controlled by humans for commandment.  This inventions saves human lives thus decreases the death rate. Further into the reading it focuses on teaching robots scenarios and problem solving skills that humans use to encode the robots with. The number one emotion that inventors want the robots to have is guilt.  Guilt in humans is the subconscious telling us we do something that was not right.  If they could instill this in robots, I think I could accept the invention of human-like robots.

As for the Einstein's quote, I completely agree. The day technology causes human interaction to decrease, will be the day people no longer know how to survive without technology. As for becoming a teacher or being a teacher now, we must stay up-to-date with the new founding technology. We have to know what today's generation knows.