Lesson Plan

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Lesson Plan CEP 800

Choice of Technology Think of a technology and say how it would help you achieve your goals. I’ve decided to use my existing WebQuest on Banning Boxing for four reasons:    

To improve students’ reading and writing skills. To improve students’ analysis and synthesis skills. To improve students’ communication skills. Too engage students in a challenging learning experience using the social constructivist approach.

What particular skills does this technology address? This experience aims to improve students’ reading and writing skills. They will need to read articles about boxing, analyze the information from each article and then synthesize it into a persuasive letter. Students will have different conceptions (explicit assumptions) and values (implicit assumptions) of boxing.

What are the affordances and constraints of this technology? Affordances:

Students will avail of a wealth of articles that would otherwise be impossible to access from any single work station. No special computer skills are required and it’s possible for group members to work both together and independently.

Constraints:

A lab has to be available and equipped with as many computers as there are students. A fast Internet connection is also needed to view and download pictures and listen to audio material.

What are the different learning theories involved? Basically, the social constructivist theory prevails, although there are traces of the behaviorist and cognitive theories as well. Students start constructing knowledge by reading the articles and building on what they already know, thus altering their existing schemata to allow new information to fit in (change of cognition). As they react to the content of these articles, they’ll realize that approving of certain articles would mean behaving in a certain way. That is, if they side with an article admonishing boxing, they’ll have to support their case using examples from that article. Their behavior will be dictated by their reaction to the articles. Created by: Jean-Claude Aura

Date: May 2009

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