Embedding Interactive Technologies into your Teaching & Learning

Abstract:This interactive session takes you through ways in which a Schoolpad or an Interactive Whiteboard can be used in a number of secondary curriculum areas.

We look at how interactive technologies can be used to managelearning; increase engagement; encourage higher order thinkingand appeal to a range of learning styles.

Jenny BarrettBreathe Technology

IWB and Schoolpad? Voting clickers?

An example integrating an IWB into an English Unit

In a realistic amount of time!

PART

Yr 9-10 example of a simple research and report activity

http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/units/shakespeare/home.htmlUnit developed by Jenny Wilson for English Online (Unitec)

Brainstorm what you know about Shakespearian / Elizabethan England Stratford

Spin to see which aspect your group is going to be researching...

How can we ensure that the students gets the most out of this activity? Where does the activity as it stands currently sit?

Spin to see which aspect your group is going to be researching...

What verb are we using?

How can we up the anti?

Handout worksheets as required for scaffolding - or just link to website - save time, paper and power...

Insert link...0.5 mins

Help to get you started for each topic available here!

can merge all files- pdf- make available for outof school use

Into the lab...

Prepare and deliver a three minute mini-seminar (option to use interactive whiteboard software)

True - was a man who repaired clothes / now refers to the thing in need of repair - the botched job

Facts collated from their presentations (assuming their higher order task was to compare life then and now) - use R/F clickers true or false

Example

A botcher is...

a Shakespearian word thatstill has meaning today

Ambiguous question tostimulate discussion...neck ruffs vs suits of armour!

Men's fashion was more "feminine" than today

True or false

Total time = 8 mins plus how long you want to spend on the quiz

What higher order thinking skills did we hit?

What did the use of the IWB add?

PART

A Year 13 example ofreading/analysing atext

Unit developed by Ann Hamer for English Online (Unitec) http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/units/merchant/home.html

Use the RF clickers nowand throughout the topic to revisit the key themes

http://us.penguingroup.com/static/pdf/teachersguides/MerchantOfVenice.pdf

Pre-reading...key themes

10 minutes to set up quiz

In pairs student discuss these words and what connections they have. Focus is on their modern meanings. Class discussion to follow which expands on the ideas.

Pre-reading continued...

Google

Or - google earth Venice and Belmont and as a whole class identify the key events/places as they occur

Whilst reading...map of events

Whilst reading...chart of key ideas

Whilst reading...a student keeps a blog for each character which is reviewed, annotated over each class

Whilst reading...video

Watch the video...

or...

Compare and contrast two performances of Shylock's monologue. Post your comments onto You Tube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Autc0-wK_7E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa1IZ7ewdOw&NR=1

Post reading - key themes

AgreeStrongly

Neutral

DisagreeStrongly

Write two paragraphs about how two statements link to the play and make sure you use supporting quotations as evidence.

Where are we on the scale?

Scan in student's work and peer edit using record and playback

Post reading - character analysis

Highlight the adjectives below which match the appropriate quote - use matching colours!

Make similar interactive activities on the other characters for your classmates to complete in the computer lab

Post reading - text analysis

Let's produce a modern version...

What does this speech tell you about Shylock'scharacter?

What do we learn about money and money lending?

What do we learn about anti-Semitism?

And don't forget fun!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/merchant/words.html

Will's words

http://www.purposegames.com/game/shakespeares-merchant-of-venice-comedy-quiz

Merchant of Venice Quiz

Total time = 34 mins plus how long you want to spend on the quiz

What higher order thinking skills did we hit?

What did the use of the IWB add?

Social Sciences

http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml

Copyright free resources

http://www.flickr.com/

Creative commons resources

A few words on copyright

Your task

With a partner, take a unit of work and create a lesson plan demonstrating:a) how you would integrate the IWBb) how you have ensured quality learning

Present it to the group.

[Respecting copyright at all times]