1. What is the TP knowledge for the solution?
When determining the educational need for my students, I immediately thought of my Integrated Geometry Strategies students. This is a support math class and many of my students lack the motivation to learn, which affects their behavior in class. Their current need is engagement in their lessons, which should increase their motivation. I chose to use the Student Response Devices as a way to engage my students in their lesson, to allow them to receive immediate feedback, which should in turn motivate them to get more correct answers the next time around, especially if I add the element of competition to the lesson. With the availability of immediate feedback, I will be able to address the educational needs of my students and/or alter my lessons and examples if necessary.
2. What is the TC knowledge for the solution?
The nature of the TC knowledge was more difficult to determine because I will be using my technology for a final exam review lesson, not necessarily to teach content. However, standardized testing is a major component to the Integrated Geometry curriculum. Something that should help my students achieve success on these assessments is the practice of answering multiple-choice questions along with the ability to quickly see their results. Because the Student Response Devices that students will use allows for only multiple-choice answering, this should help them better learn test-taking strategies for these types of questions. It will be interesting to see how students react and learn by not writing or bubbling in their answer, but by sending it to the computer system via their clicker.
3. What is the PC knowledge for the solution?
The teaching approaches that I will use during this review lesson that specifically address the Integrated Geometry Strategies course are focusing on students’ prior knowledge from previous lessons or courses, as well as other helpful out-of-classroom knowledge. Because this is mainly a review lesson, addressing misconceptions will be another pedagogical approach I can use. Also, since my students’ need falls under engagement and motivation, having multiple representation of questions, answers, and feedback will help cover a wide range of the learners that I have. Keeping the lesson moving with minimal distractions will also keep my students focused and engaged with the content.
eInstruction's CPS system is a terrific fit for your wicked problem. As I was reading through the post, a "work around" idea came to mind for short answer questions ~ Short Written "The Answer Is" type questions could be posted using the mc format. The students will have to do the work on paper, explaining the steps they had to take, before they can select the correct answer. They can turn they work into to you at the end of the review session. Or, if you are using the CPS Plus, text based answers are allowed. Something to think about for the TC section ~ Adding information to the effect that CPS results could help drive classroom instruction in days leading up to the final exam. Review lessons covering content students have misconceptions about will improve overall understanding of the curriculum How else might you and your students use the CPS data as a study guide? Looking forward to hearing comments about how much your students enjoyed this activity in your next post=8-)
ReplyDeleteI can't tell you how much I LOVE that your solution involves immediate feedback. Even with homework, students must wait until the next day to find out if their thought process is right. So not only does it help them, but it helps YOU with out you having to grade 50 bajillion things :-)
ReplyDeleteI like the above idea of having students turn in the long-hand to you at the end of the hour-this helps ease the problem that I listed earlier of students simply asking each other which button they should push. Even if they are copying the long-hand, at least they are going through the steps in some manner.
I can't remember if you said something about this earlier but, will/do your students receive a grade/points for participating? The cool/competitive factor should be enough, but I was just wondering....Can't wait to hear your results!
Sounds like you are well on your way here. I think the instat feedback is a great tool for students. I was also wondering if you were going to award points or not for their answers. The idea of turning in work at the end of the review session seems like a good idea too. I am looking forward to hearing your results.
ReplyDeleteI love your idea about using the response clickers. I use them all the time in my classroom and it's a great way to motivate and engage students. My first graders love it. I can also see how teenagers would really respond well to this technology. I remember feeling very "bored" with school at this age, and would have loved something like this to do as a student.
ReplyDeleteI also like that you took it a step further and used the students' misconceptions as lessons/reviews for following sessions.