In order to get students' minds ready, a teacher must start with identifying students' prior knowledge. A teacher should shake up students' ideas to generate interest and promote inquiry. One could do role-playing or discrepant events to create curiosity.
It is very crucial for teachers to teach fundamentals first. They need to set the stage for independent inquiry. That involves possibly a KWL activity to determine what students know, wonder, and want to learn. Teachers should also provide the assessment rubric that was created for the project to use as a roadmap toward great achievements.
There are multiple ways and steps to prepare yourself and students for technology. First, a teacher needs to plan efficient ways to get students ready to use technology for their learning. You can consider a way to set up opportunities for students to learn by and among themselves. Encourage students to teach each other by setting up computer stations, each with one tool that will be used in the project, and then let them teach!
To promote inquiry and deep learning a teacher must guide students as they develop questions, plan investigations, and begin to put their plans to action.There are multiple primary outcomes that all students should understand. They are:
- There is a relationship between need and opportunity, and between scarcity and abundance.
- Money, bartering, and other means of exchange have existed throughout history and across civilizations, and they continue to change.
- Modern money has symbolic worth as an exchange medium
- Economics, health, and well-being are related.
- Money means different things to different people.
- Humans are interdependent
Currently, my group is determining ways to get students' minds ready, as well as, the communities for our super fun kickball tournament, Kicks are for Kids. We also must use information from this chapter to determine how we will begin by teaching the fundamentals and use technology tools in the project. We also will determine ways to teach and prepare our class to use technology for this project, especially since they will be using ePals to talk with students from South Korea.
I like how you mentioned that students can teach each other how to use the technology. I feel like that is how a lot of technology is learned today. You see someone else using it and you want to use it too. You have that friend who already knows how to use it show you how. Sometimes kids learn best when they can be taught by their friends.
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ReplyDeleteI like how you emphasize the importance of giving the students the basic knowledge that they will need to succeed in the project before they dive into it. It is great to touch base with what the students know, don't know, what they need to learn and how to reach these goals successfully.