Online+Collaborative+Lesson

The instructional unit has to gain the student’s attention, introduce the topic, present new content, provide areas for team-work, provide students opportunities to practice new knowledge and skills, and area for them to design and create the new product/process, and assessment techniques. It is help in setting group goals if student self-assessment to help them identify what they know and can do. When students understand the instructional goals and how well their knowledge/skills align with the instructional goals, then they are able to identify and establish group goals and assign tasks. You must create an instructional unit for teachers, an instructional activity for students, assessment tools: formative/summative and self-assessment (i.e. the students assess themselves) strategy, collaborative tools for team-work, preferably in the Google Documents area. Information: Designing the Instructional Activity The term instruction is being used as a broad term for a unit or several days of lessons. Students should participate in the activity over a period of time. The activity does not require day-to-day lesson plans. Choose one of activities listed below to design an Instructional unit for Teachers and an Activity Unit for Students. The instruction/project must include these learner activities: researching an authentic problem • synthesizing ideas, • designing a creative activity, • critiquing original works, • developing and evaluating new products or processes • generating new ideas.
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 * Researching includes these components: identify and define authentic questions or problems, planning, managing, and using multiple processes and perspectives to discover, propose, and evaluate multiple solutions. The instruction/project must include this learner activity: addressing an authentic problem.

[|UNIT TOPIC] [|Week One Doc] [|Week Two Doc] [|Week Three Doc] [|Week Four Doc] [|Week Five Doc] [|Week Six Doc] [|Week Seven Doc] [|Week Eight Doc] [|Team A Spreadsheet] [|Team B Spreadsheet] [|Team C Spreadsheet] [|Self Assessment Spreadsheet] [|Student Score Sheet] [|Group Presentation Grading Sheet]

Since I have completed this online collaborative lesson assignment, I have truly seen what you can do in a classroom with technology. This assignment took some serious thought in the planning phase. I never realized how much control the students could have over a lesson. Here, for the first time, my students are running the main component of success. I am personally not use to that but am very excited to be stepping outside my comfort zone. It's exciting! I had to think about the levels of my students and their ability. I tried to come up with the simplest form of collaborative documents since this is new for me and the students. Even after the large amount of time put into the planning process, I am already coming up with more ideas of new lessons to use this concept for. I have learned that with online collaboration, you must be very clear with directions and the setup since you typically are not there to walk the students through the process every step of the way. I also have learned that my students know more and think more than I expected. I feel that this really peaked their interest in a rather basic research based project. On a personal note, I learned that the internet can be an instructional resource in the classroom not just an informational source. With that said, I have also learned that not everything works as well as it looks like it should on paper. In my situation specifically, my project was not available to the students because of the school's filter. I had to adjust my lesson and set it up a bit differently so I can use the same documents without breaking the rules. Flexibility comes with technology and this is a skill I am working on.This lesson has helped the process of making students more accountable for the DARE program activities. The students also we exposed to new technology in the classroom, whether they have seen it before or not, using it in the class was a new experience.To edit a document honorably and be accurate and accountable since other students are referencing it, also taught my students a new level of responsibility. I plan on exploring this lesson type much more with future topics, such as book reviews and open ended math questions.
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