In my Integrating Technology in the Classroom class, the big project for the semester requires that we create a unit plan on a subject of our choice. Being that I will be kindergarten teacher, I chose the alphabet. The collection of 26 letters needed for basic vocal communication, literacy, and writing for the most part. The title of my unit plan is "Do Not Forget Your Alphabet".
This week we had to create a lesson plan that goes along with our unit plan. I decided to do an introduction to the alphabet. The lesson had to include online collaborative inquiry to get technology in the classroom. This lesson is best for the first week of school to get an understanding where each student in the classroom stands. My goal for this lesson is to make sure my students are able to recite the alphabet, write it (capital and lowercase), know the sounds each letter makes, and be able to identify a person, place, thing, or idea associated with the letters. Online collaborative inquiry is important to have in the classroom so students learn how to safely use the internet and have a presentable online identity. In any classroom, especially a kindergarten classroom, it is key to use a censored search engine that only exposes children to appropriate online content. In my lesson, I introduced students to a children's search engine that blocks them from unsafe internet content. Even though this is my first time creating a unit or lesson plan, I am proud of the lesson plan I have created. Yes, it may need work but it is my first one. My hope is that after some peer editing and revisions, I am able to use it in my future classroom as the first lesson of the week!
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The third part of the Orms module caters to online reading comprehension in the classroom. Integrating this component into the classroom gives students a different medium to learn information. It also forces them to use their problem solving skills. In my lesson for this module, I require students to go online and find words that start with the letters A, B, and C.
The first day of the lesson focuses on the letter A. Students are to go online one at a time and find a new vocabulary word that starts with the letter A and the definition. Once they find their word the teacher has to approve it. After students get the green light for their word, it goes on the white board/ smart board for the entire class to see. Putting the words found on the board prevents students from using the same word. Each student must introduce the class to a new word that starts with the letter A that they find online. With this lesson, students not only use online reading comprehension but also problem solving skills. If they cannot find a word that starts with the letter A (that no one else has already found) they are forced to keep looking until they find a word that the teacher approves. This activity encourages students read and gather information from off the internet. Module Three Online Reading Comprehension Lesson Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jAnW65O_3j7Ip3OIYrTSH6TDxHcdyYIDTlx7N0PIiVA/edit?usp=sharing Going into this "Living in the City" case study, I already had some questions come to mind. When I say questions, I mean an entire list of at least ten questions I thought would be good for research (Questions can be found in my last post). Once I did my first interview and got some feed back from my Language Development teacher, I realized that I truly only need three good research questions for my case study.
My first face-to-face interview was way too long. I could tell how the length of my interview made the interviewee tired. I myself felt that I had to many questions to ask. After a while I realized that the majority of the questions I had could be used for a survey instead of an interview. Then when my teacher explained to me that I only need a few good questions, I knew had to come back to the drawing board. After much thought and help from my fellow classmates, I have chosen a couple of research questions out of my list that I think are worthy of asking. Even after much editing, I still feel they can use more work. I have had prior experience with learning how to write a driving question, from another class I take, but still formatting a question to make it decent takes time. The questions I have chosen are:
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To collect my data I plan on doing face-to-face interviews using the questions above. I also want to make short surveys so I can get more perspectives from students without doing a ton of time consuming interviews. I am going to schedule my interviews with people that I do not know whenever we are both free. I am going to do interviews with people that I do know during lunch, while spending time together, over facetime, and even through text messages. Surveys will be given out randomly to random people. I am going to use paper and pencil to record my answers and I want to use a voice recorder with permission from the interviewee to collect data. In my Foundations of Language and Literacy course the big assignment of the semester is a case study inspired by Stevie Wonder's song "Living In The City". The purpose of the assignment is to study a person, place, thing, or group using ethnographic methods so that at the end of the year the class can see what I find out about what I want to study. For this project, I am going to study the minority experience at the College of Charleston. More specifically, what it is like to be a African American person attending a predominantly white institution (PWI).
My topic of choice is inspired by me being a minority, recognizing the college's false advertisement of diversity, and the events going on in America dealing with race currently. I am of mixed race but identify as African American on paper. Why? Well, when my ethnicity is broken is down, I am more African American than I am of any other ethnic group. So being that I am a minority, have experience with being judged because of my ethnicity, have family and friends that know what it is like to be Black in America, and fight for social equity and equality, it only makes since that I study the African American Experience at the college. I spend 90% of my life on the college's campus so I am always surrounded by the school's demographics. I see and experience first hand what it is like to be a minority at a school where one is lucky if he/she is not the only person like them in the classroom. In the end, I honestly could not imagine studying anything that I would feel more passionate about than the African American experience at the College of Charleston. I think my case study research will affect my perception of the Sapir- Whorf Hypothesis by giving me diverse and hopefully unique answers to my questions. Being that I am interviewing College of Charleston students, their answers should reflect their level of education though they may come from different socioeconomic backgrounds. Maybe students that speak using Standard American English will say their experience at the college has not been that bad due to the fact that they speak "normal". Then there are those that have an accent/dialect so it is possible they have had a more difficult time trying to acclimate to the white social standings on campus. The following on research questions that I am going to ask:
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