I love the topic of your lesson. I did not even know there are standards for teachers...oops. I think it is a relevant lesson and your enduring understandings and essential questions are spot on.
One question I have is, in your knowledge and skills section, perhaps "how to record...", "how to make..." and "how to upload..." should be in the skills section? From my own experience, those are skills that I would need to first learn.
And, one suggestion, this goes beyond the scope of the assignment, but if this was a real lesson it would be cool for teachers to find additional ways to use podcast outside of their small reading groups.
Sarah, I guess my thoughts on the "how to record" was knowledge because it was using recording using a new program? Does that make sense or should it still be in the skills sections. I'm still confused about it all. The "how to upload" once again was program specific, granted if you know how to upload one thing you can pretty much upload anything. I agree that it would be cool to have teachers use podcasting outside of reading groups too, it was just the current "problem" being faced in the school.
First off, your essential questions are great, they guide the learning exactly where you need it to go to. Secondly, the only question I would have for you is, like Sarah's question, how are your knowledge and skills different (as they both seem to be applications of an understanding). Lastly, your UbD document is great but, to make it even better, I would suggest removing the first enduring understanding, as your skills and knowledge do not seem to lead one to understand that "technology is always evolving..."
First off, I like the idea of using podcasts for teachers and parents. A great way to have parental involvement, even if they can not physically come into the classroom, but are still aware of what is happening. So my question is, what if some parents do not have the technology background, or just a basic understanding of using technology? Will they be able to keep up in the seminar, or will you provide a more thorough step by step? I think just to clarify some a things a little bit, you may want to put the definition of the term "audacity" in parenthesis just so that the reader already has a slight idea of what is to be expected. Overall, this sounds like an awesome lesson plan!
Tim,
ReplyDeleteI love the topic of your lesson. I did not even know there are standards for teachers...oops. I think it is a relevant lesson and your enduring understandings and essential questions are spot on.
One question I have is, in your knowledge and skills section, perhaps "how to record...", "how to make..." and "how to upload..." should be in the skills section? From my own experience, those are skills that I would need to first learn.
And, one suggestion, this goes beyond the scope of the assignment, but if this was a real lesson it would be cool for teachers to find additional ways to use podcast outside of their small reading groups.
Sarah,
ReplyDeleteI guess my thoughts on the "how to record" was knowledge because it was using recording using a new program? Does that make sense or should it still be in the skills sections. I'm still confused about it all. The "how to upload" once again was program specific, granted if you know how to upload one thing you can pretty much upload anything.
I agree that it would be cool to have teachers use podcasting outside of reading groups too, it was just the current "problem" being faced in the school.
Tim,
ReplyDeleteFirst off, your essential questions are great, they guide the learning exactly where you need it to go to. Secondly, the only question I would have for you is, like Sarah's question, how are your knowledge and skills different (as they both seem to be applications of an understanding). Lastly, your UbD document is great but, to make it even better, I would suggest removing the first enduring understanding, as your skills and knowledge do not seem to lead one to understand that "technology is always evolving..."
~Tim
ReplyDeleteFirst off, I like the idea of using podcasts for teachers and parents. A great way to have parental involvement, even if they can not physically come into the classroom, but are still aware of what is happening. So my question is, what if some parents do not have the technology background, or just a basic understanding of using technology? Will they be able to keep up in the seminar, or will you provide a more thorough step by step? I think just to clarify some a things a little bit, you may want to put the definition of the term "audacity" in parenthesis just so that the reader already has a slight idea of what is to be expected.
Overall, this sounds like an awesome lesson plan!
~Katie