Transcript Technology & Secondary Science

Presenter: Julia Hengstler, Educational Technologist
VIU Faculty of Education
Contact Info: [email protected]
Building 356-223
(250)753-3245 ext 2630
Overview of Workshop
• You will have a worksheet guide to assist you in
competing the workshop available here
• http://www.viu.ca/education/ed_tech/course_sessions/s
ci/edpb507_worksheet.doc
Key Topics
• General overview of technology & good pedagogy
• Using a publisher’s electronic resources
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structure and useful resources(teachers/students)
• Incorporating electronic resources into a micro-lesson
• You exploring & completing worksheet @ your level & pace—
• About using technology (pros and cons)
• Feedback sheet (improve the workshop)
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Vancouver Island University
Your needs?
• complete workshop with support- become
more familiar with science teaching support
materials/tools/strategies
• incorporate a technology element into your
micro- teaching lesson
• technology element required for e-portfolio
• technology skills required as professional
• makes job easier and more interesting
•desire to learn/do new things
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Technological Context
“Today’s young people in their teens and 20s,
who have been dubbed “digital natives,” have
never known a world without computers, 24hour TV news, Internet, & cell-phones—with
their video, music, cameras & text messaging.”
(Small & Vorgan, 2008)
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Just How Wired are Your Students?
(Findings of the Canadian Internet Project, 2008)
Data from 2007: “Internet use is almost universal among
Canada’s youth”
More from Canadian Internet
Project, 2008
 97% of BC youth 12-17 are online
 Average online time of 12-17 hr/week
 ~46% have been online for about 6+ years
 ~56% of 11 yr & younger are online
 Average online time of 3.5hr/week
Teacher Network Model v 1.0
Teacher
Network
Model
v 2.0
Technology can effectively
support optimal teaching &
learning when you pick the right
tool & use it appropriately.
VS
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Yet we also need to
stay open to
creative &
innovative uses of
technology.
Remember the Internet
started as a military scientific
research network in the US
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Using Technology
* Technology knowledge & skills
“stick” when you need to use them
(internal or external motivation)
*Technology knowledge & skills stay
with you when you use them
repeatedly
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The Big Picture:
Good Instructional Practice &
Technology
7 Principles of Good Education
(Chickering & Gamson, 1987; adapted)
 Good practice in education:
 encourages contact between students, families &
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teachers
develops reciprocity & cooperation among students
encourages active learning
gives prompt feedback
emphasizes time on task
communicates high expectations
respects diverse talents & ways of learning.
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Common Uses of Technology in Teaching
 Websearching (content, lesson ideas)
 Virtual Tours
 Making overheads/Master Sheets
 Assessment/evaluation, gradebook systems
 Using publisher materials
 Online games
 Ask an Expert
 WebQuests
 Tools and resources
The Smaller Picture:
Electronic Resources from Publishers
Publishers & E-Content
 Virtually all major publishers provide some form of
electronic supplements to print materials
 Market driven
 Increasingly electronic displacing print materials
 Publishers with “good” electronic practices
 Make user-friendly materials
Consistent interface , layout, variety of resources for “online”
 Provide quality materials that help you do a better jobincrease
student learning
 Modify or add to existing materials to make them better
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 Desire to have you purchase their line
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Main Publishers (Junior Secondary Science)
Science Probe- Nelson
BC Science – McGraw Hill
Illustrative Example of Technological Support
for students & teachers
McGraw-Hill’s BC Science 9
• access provided by publisher
• Students- bc9user with password ______________
• (grade 8-10 access- change grade level number)
• Teachers – bc9*_____________
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Need to insert the U drive piece
•You will need to download materials.
Please use your U: drive because it is
accessible from anywhere on campus
as well as from work or home via
Internet. If you don’t know what a U
drive is, please follow the next few
slides
Using the U: drive is not mandatory, but STRONGLY encouraged to preserve
your peace of mind.
In either your U: drive or a memory stick, please create the following folders:
“Sci Methods”
Open the Sci Methods folder & create a new folder inside called “Tech Workshop”
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Exploring a Text Series: BC Science
In browser ( or )
www.canadascience.com/bc
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Look @ Links to Subsites
Links to sites for each available text
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StudyBuzz a Provincial Exam
preparation service of LearnNowBC
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In site, click on BC Science 9
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BC Science 9 Home Page:
•Navigation links on left
•Main Window
•Welcome message
•News
•New material
•Featured content
•Take a min. to follow a
link—then return to the
home page
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Key Icons & Formats
BC Science Icons :
File Formats Lingo:
•pdf : “portable document file”; requires
a PDF reader like “Adobe”; preserves
fonts, graphics, layout of finished
product regardless of app. used to
generate; generally take up less memory
than “docs”
•doc: “document file”; native proprietary
file format from Microsoft Word; can be
imported into other programs (eg.
OpenOffice) and other programs can
export in compatible format
•zip: a compressed file format to make
large files or groups of files more easily
transferred or stored; uses an app like
WinZip or WinRAR to unpack
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Unit Resources:
•Grouped by thematic unitschaptersspecific
pages of the text in linear order
•Include content of eVersion of text + other
material
•pdfs, Word docs, audio, video, graphics, links etc.
•Fairly dense listing—but correlated by text page
•“Chapter” links are actually to locations in one
page with all chapters’ information
•Click on “Unit 1 Chemistry”
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Chapter 1 Example Resources:
•Graphics pkg: correspond to chapter; download & edit
•Click on the Ch. 1 Pkg
•See what happens
•Can you open an image
file?
•Save the image to your
edpb507_workshop folder
•Additional Internet links
•Open the “Laboratory
Explosion” video
•How might this be used in
class?
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BC 9 Home Version:
Never hear, “I left my text book at X…” again :
Online Adobe PDF text version
1. Click on the BC 9 Home Version button
2. At bottom right of that page, click on "Click Here
to Access the Home Version eBook”
3. When prompted enter the following:
Username: provided by presenter
Password: provided by presenter
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BC 9 Home Version:
6 categories of available resources organized
by chapter & sub-topics
• Reading Support
• Black line Masters
• Internet Links
• Multimedia
• Activities & Puzzles
• Assessment
• Note: More material in “Teacher’s Corner”
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Reading Supports: Textbook
•Helps with productive text reading by proficient & challenged
readers
•You should be in Home Version
•Click on Section 1.3 Atomic Theory
•Under Reading Support, click
on Section 1.3 (textbook)
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Reading Supports: Textbook
•Textbook section opens in Adobe Reader
•Double click on the word “protons” to select it.
•Right click on highlighted
word.
•Select “Look up ‘protons’”
•Close that page
•Click on the Save icon above the pdf
•Save Section 1.3 to your U drive’s
edpb507_workshop folder.
•Go “Back” in the browser to BC
Science 9, Home Version, Sect. 1.3
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Download & Listen
•Requires Adobe Reader & proper formatting Adobe recognizes
•not the most exciting reader—but if students would rather be read to,
this is a free option
•Minimize the browser
•Open the Section 1.3 text file you saved
•My ComputerU driveedpb507_workshop folderDouble click on
the Section 1.3 pdf
•Sect. 1.3 should open in Adobe Reader
• Have Adobe Read Your Document
1. Click on the "View" menu @ top of Adobe Reader
2. Click on “Activate Read Out Loud" - ( last choice in the menu).
3. Go back to ViewRead Out LoudRead This Page Only
4. Return to ViewRead Out LoudPause (or Stop) as necessary
Hints: If another PDF is open in your browser at same time—the Reader gets
confused and starts reading the browser document. Just have one pdf open—
and that one in the Reader. Remember to turn off the Read Out Loud option in
“View”
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Blackline Masters:
•Implies “being run-off” as hard copy—but available as PDF
or Word doc (use Microsoft Word or OpenOffice for students
to edit)
•Use in hard copy, or provide electronic copies to students via
a website, LMS, etc.
•Study Note Template: structured note taking template
•Pre-Reading Activity: vocabulary & prediction of content
•Also available in other sections
•Worksheets: section relevant activities
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Blackline Masters:
•Click on the Study Note
template in Word format
for Section 1.3 (NOT the
pdf)
•Allow Word to open it
•Type something
anywhere in document
•Save to your U drive
•Close Word
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Internet Links
•Specific links keyed to specified section/text pages
•Not provided in text—don’t want broken links
•Provided in the HomeVersion area
•Caution: always check viability before using!
•Click on “Atoms, Molecules & States of Matter” (Home version Section 1.3)
•Take a quick look at the content of the linked page
•Close the New Window or go “Back” to BCScience 9, Home Version, Section
1.2 Investigating Matter
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Multimedia
•Section-supporting multi-media resources
•Not provided in text—don’t want broken links
•Provided in the Home Version area
•Links out to other sites—embedded in site
page
•Sometimes better to go directly to
YouTube, etc. & watch there
•Scroll down to Multimedia
•Click on “Supercooled Water” (there is
no sound—don’t worry)
•Watch the video
•Go “Back” to BCScience9Section 1.2
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Activities & Puzzles
•Keyed to specified section/text pages
•May be : online or static print off
•Scroll down to “Activities & Puzzles” &
click on “Changes of State”
•Try to do the online crossword-hints/check in upper left
• note--other cases: static(document or paper)
may also be available to print
•If pdf only, may need to use OpenOffice Draw or
Impress –with PDF import extension--to edit
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Assessment
(available to students; more in Teacher’s Corner of site)
•May be Check Your Understanding (print or
doc) or Online Quiz
• In Sect 1.2
•Scroll down to Assessment
•Click the “Interactive Quiz”—try it
•You must eventually answer all correctly to get mark; though will
tell you when you get it wrong/right; marks not archived/tracked)
•Click on the “Word Format” for “Check Your Understanding”
•PDF—challenging to edit without proper software—DOC editable
with Office, OpenOffice, Pages (on import)
•Answer 1 question on the document & save it to your computer
•Close Word
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Reading Supports: Workbook
•Close the Sect. 1.2 textbook pdf & Adobe Reader
•Browser should still be @ BC Science 9 site (www.bcscience9.com) in the
Home Version area Section 1.2 Investigating Matter
•Open the Sect. 1.2 workbook (pdf)
•Can also be “read aloud” when
downloaded & open with Adobe
Reader
•Can print out or work “ON” the pdf
•Open Word 07, then open the PDF in AdobeCtrl+A (selects all)Ctrl+C (copies)in
Word doc, Ctrl+V (pastes into Word 07)
•Alternative if no Office 07--write “on” a pdf
•$$$ Adobe Acrobat full version—NOT “Reader”
•$0—OpenOffice 3 +Sun PDF Extension–import the PDF into “Draw” or “Impress”
•OpenOffice download: http://download.openoffice.org/index.html
•PDF Import Extension:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport
•Save Section 1.2 workbook pdf to your U drive folder
•Go “Back” to BC Science 9, Home Version Section 1.2 page
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Example How Resource Availability Varies by Text Section
Reading Blackline
Internet Multimedia Activities Assessment
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Teacher’s Corner Home Page
In the BC Science 9 site
(http://www.bcscience.com/bc9/index.html )
1. Click on Teacher Corner in the left side bar
• “Teacher Site”
• Access to teacher-only resources
• Listed professional development events
• Curriculum information
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Teacher’s Corner Access
In the Teacher’s Corner
1.Select the link "Click Here to Access the Teacher's
Corner”
2.When prompted add the following:
Username: provided by presenter
Password: provided by presenter
NOTE: This area is TEACHER-ONLY materials—which has been shared
with you as a pre-service teacher. Tests, keys, etc. are NOT to be shared
with students as other teachers are using these materials and their
integrity must be preserved.
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Teacher’s Corner
You should see this:
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Sections of Teacher’s Corner
(Scrolling down)
•Teacher’s Resource Download
•Analogous to “teacher binder” for text
•Using BC Science 9 Resource
•Video workshops on textbook series & curriculum
•Varying sizes from full-screen to podcast
•Under development so currently thin on material
•Professional Development
•Documents & presentations
•Under development so currently thin on material
•Unit Specific Resources
•Downloadable PPTs keyed to text chapters & sections
•You can customize the content
•Curriculum Updates
•General Resources
•Materials purchasing (lab supplies)
•Other
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Vancouver Island University
Teacher’s Resource Downloads
•Material analogous to a “teacher’s resource binder”
•3 “Divisions” of Resources
1. General Files & Blackline
Masters (BLMs)
2. Assessment Blackline Masters
3. Unit Support Blackline Masters
•Files provided as pdf, doc, or zip (zip files must be expanded before use)
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Division Overview:
What’s in each division
1. General Files & BLMs
• Table of Contents & Teacher Notes for All Units
• Provides support for planning units/lessons,
preparations, evaluation, assessment, etc.
• How to Use Foldables (pdf)
• Handy Ideas for instructional/learning support materials
• Science Skills (pdf)
• Teaching strategies/activities for teaching science skills &
supporting different needs
• Student Workbook Answers
• Generic Blackline Masters
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Scavenger Hunt, Safety Contract, WHMIS Symbols, Developing
an Hypothesis, Variables, Making Decisions, Reading and
Interpreting Graphs, Constructing Line Graphs, Assessing
Scientific Drawings, Estimating, Microscope Parts, Reading an
Analogue Meter, Metric Conversions
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2. Assessment BLMs
• Assessment Checklist (forms)
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Variety of activities
Criteria given separate from scale/rubric
Space for self & teacher assessments
Some could be co-opted for other subject areas.
• Concept map
• Asking questions
• Project Group Assessment
• Assessment Rubrics
• Follows “Performance Standards” structure
• Concepts, Presentations, Communications, Using Tools,
Equipment & Materials, Notebooks, etc.
• Process Skills Rubrics
• Follows “Performance Standards” structure
• Developing Models, Measuring & Reporting, Hypothesizing, etc.
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3. Unit Support Packages
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Unit by chapter Summary of key concepts
Unit vocab lists by chapter
Activity/worksheets
Assessments
Chapter quizzes
Unit Tests
Answer Keys to all BLMs, quizzes & tests
Available as pdf or zip files
• zips contain both doc & pdf formats
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Accessing Teacher Downloads
• Look at the download grid in the Teacher’s
Corner (i.e. General Files & BLMs, Assessment BLMs
& Unit Support BLMs)
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Open 1 single document & save
to your computer
• Eg. Science Skills
• click on the link, save file
to your U: drive or memory
stick
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Vancouver Island University
Accessing Teacher Downloads
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Open 1 archive & save to your
computer
• Eg. Unit 1 BLMs
• click on the link, save file
to your U: drive or memory
stick
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Vancouver Island University
Unit Specific Resources
• PPT files directly correlated to chapter & subsections
• Download & edit at will (some fixes might be required)
or to customize for you/your class
• Useful—something for every section
• Scroll down
on Teacher
Corner home
page Save the
edited PPT to
your U drive.
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Unit Specific Resources
• Locate Sect. 1.2 Atomic Theory PPT
• Open it.
• Novice users: save “as is” to your U drive (or memory
stick). For a slight challenge, go to slide 5—it’s very wordy.
Edit it to cut down on some of the words & then save it.
• Mid/Advanced activity: edit down words & find a picture
of Ernest Rutherford, include it on slide with photo credit
& link to source
• Save the edited PPT to your U drive (or memory stick).
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Reflecting on Incorporating
These Text Resources
• Now you have seen what electronic resources are
available in relation to BC Science 9.
• At the end of the session, you will be required to
identify at least 3 Teacher Corner or Home
Version resources and describe how you would
use it.
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Considerations when Incorporating
Technology
• Benefits?
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Many students want to use technology
Good content available
Access to experts
Flexibility of material presentation/assessment
Data used can be most current science
Keeps teachers/students/homes in closer contact
Helps with collaboration among students—and
teachers re. Pro-D
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Challenges of Working with Technology
• Some challenges—what do you think?
• Equipment availability/reliability—
• Student access outside of school
• Ensure equipment availability sometime during school day
whether in class, lunch, etc.
• Software –cost, availability & installations, reviews,
pilots, implementations
• Sufficient Pro-D & teacher “practice” time
• Privacy of student/personal data
• Shallow research—1st 10 Goggle hits
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As you think about incorporating
technology, remember:
Everything you have students do should be
educationally purposeful.
Technology is an instructional tool: pick it to do a
particular job—don’t throw it in as an extraneous
add-on or gimmick.
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Worksheet
• Complete the worksheet provided by the professor
• Hardcopy (paper ) or download to U drive to edit with answers:
http://www.viu.ca/education/ed_tech/course_sessions/sci/edp
b507_worksheet.doc
• Use the remaining workshop time to complete this worksheet
• Ask for support as you need it
• Submit paper or document to professor
• For electronic—email to Bernie: [email protected]
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Activity: Technology Incorporation into
Micro Lesson
• Levels of incorporation:
• Novice: leveraging materials that parallel
“traditional” teaching modes
• Eg. downloading BLMs, PPTs “as is” or with minimal
customization
• Mid-Range: leveraging resources that extend
traditional teaching modes & allow some interaction
• Eg. online assessments, multimedia, PPTs with some
modifications
• Advanced: leveraging resources for traditional & nontraditional teaching modes
• modifying e-content to make it your own, developing own
e-content, tools, etc.
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Vancouver Island University
Thank you
• This was a LONG session. Your attention & active
participation is appreciated.
• Should you have any additional questions about
educational technology, what’s out there, how to
get it or use it, please contact me:
• Julia Hengstler
• Office: 356-221 (M/W/Th 8:30-2:30 or by appt.)
• [email protected]
• (250) 753-3245 Ext. 2630
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Faculty of Education
Vancouver Island University