Use in
the Classroom or Educational Setting
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IDEA- During their fourth-grade year the
students have an Energy Unit. This unit covers what energy is, the different
forms of energy, energy transfer, conservation of energy, and energy and force.
I will use this as an introduction to the unit.
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The students will be able to get the main ideas
of the unit before beginning the unit. Once we do get into the unit they will
be able to reflect on what they discovered on the Padlet.
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Copyright- My fourth graders are getting to the
point in their education where they are researching and beginning to write
papers/reports. By incorporating a mini copyright lesson in with the pre-cursor
of the unit, the students will be able to compare the copyrights, and how I found
and placed them with the work, with how to cite their findings in their own
work. I will explain that what they are looking at on the Padlet is somebody
else’s work and they deserve the credit for it. I will also explain that they
need to take this into consideration as they begin to write research papers.
Application
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The design principles for multimedia instruction
align with my lesson because I am having my students look and go through many
sources before I teach the lesson and unit to the students. They will have some
background knowledge and a basic understanding of the vocabulary words and what
energy is by the time they compete the Padlet. The principles align with the
Padlet technology because it allows the students to see printed words but the
students could also watch videos or manipulate and idea online (with how I used
PhET). Students will be more successful when they have options and different
ways of learning rather than the same way of the information begin presented to
them the same way.
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When my students are using the Padlet they will
be applying Segmenting Principle and the Pre-Training Principle. The first,
Segmenting, because they can go at their own pace. If they want to re-read
something or re-watch something they can without slowing anyone else down. The
Pre-Training Principle explains that the student will learn better when they
know the key words and materials before discussing it as a class. We could have
a more in-depth conversation and lesson when all my students are on the same
page.
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When designing my Padlet I intentionally used
the Pre-Training Principle. I wanted to make sure my students knew what energy
was and the several types of energy. I wanted the students to explore energy
and what changes they would need to make to create a type of energy (PhET).
Reflection
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Before this week I would pick a video or show
something to my students without thinking of copyrights. After this week and attempting
to find resources, I have discovered that some of the sources I use during the
day at school may have some copyrights on them that are specific. I will make
sure that I am paying attention to these copyrights more than what I have in
the past.
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This week, the fact that there are different
type of copyrights and they are very specific as to what you can do with them,
stood out to me. I thought a copyright is a copyright, you can’t do anything
with it but in fact you do have options with certain copyrights such as the
share-alike attribution.
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The one tension that I noticed was how some
students learn better when having a conversation, the Personalization Principle.
With my Padlet, the students would not be able to accomplish this. If a student
learns best from having a conversation, they would have to wait until the
lesson/unit is being taught which may put them a little behind those students
who can learn by segmenting and pre-training.
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I enjoyed practicing and creating another
resource for my students. This is something that I didn’t know was out there
but it is something simple that the students can use and even create on their
own.
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My skill and understanding of copyright laws
has grown from knowing very little to knowing the necessary basics. I was able
to apply what I discovered to create a Padlet. I am able to now decipher what
it means to be a typical copyright that seems to be more to common to a
copyright that allows you to make adjustments but not reproduce.
Hello Rachel it is nice to meet you! I enjoyed looking over your padlet. You have several useful resources for students to use; phet is always a great resource.
ReplyDeleteI was drawn to the information that was in your padlet finding it it very interesting and found the need to share some information with you if you are interested. What I found interesting is the idea of teaching students about energy forms. I am a 7th/8th grade science teacher and taught my 8th graders about energy forms until recently. Last school year, I started working with Michigan State University on a new way of teaching students about energy. We actually don't teach our students different forms of energy anymore because students in general seem to struggle with knowing all the different kinds of energy that exist and how they get transformed from one form to another. Now, I have the privilege to teach my students a way that focuses on systems and energy transfers between systems. We actually don't teach our students about forms anymore and talk about energy as just being 1 kind... energy and focus on how energy behaves. I am curious to see when this shift in thinking about energy will be spread to other schools and states as well and possibly even your own... I imagine it will be at least 10 years or so before we truly start seeing a difference ;)