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Case Study 5
Overview
General Overview
You are a geography teacher at a school of 500 students.
Organizational Goals
The school wants students to acquire twenty-first century skills, including collaboration, problem solving, and authentic learning, by using ICT resources.
Learning and Teaching Environment
You have 40 students of mixed abilities in your class. The students are between the ages of 14 and 16.
The students are computer literate but have limited knowledge of how to use the Internet to communicate and to share ideas.
The school has one computer lab that contains 15 computers. The computers are networked and have access to the Internet. The computers support videoconferencing.
The computer lab has a student response system that includes 45 handsets.
Objectives
Learning Objectives
The students will be able to understand the cause and effects of acid rain.
Learning Activities
You plan a project with the students on the topic of acid rain. The students will use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) resources to complete the
project.
The project will require the students to:
Improve their research skills.
Collaborate with one another and with students in other schools.
Create a Web site to educate the public on how to minimize the impact of acid rain.
To introduce the project, you plan to show videos on the causes and consequences of acid rain.
You also plan to conduct a video-conference with a farmer who has suffered the effects of acid rain.
To develop project-based learning strategies, you plan to use the school’s limited ICT resources.
You are aware that many videos about acid rain are available on the Internet, but you do not know how to identify the relevant ones.
Professional Development Objectives
Your professional development objectives are to:
use ICT effectively for teaching and learning;
incorporate appropriate ICT activities into lesson plans so as to support students’ acquisition of school subject matter knowledge; and
integrate the use of ICT into the curriculum.
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One of your students has poor hearing.
You want to ensure that the student has the opportunity to interact with the farmer during the video-conference.
What should you do?
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A.
After the video-conference, have the other students explain the key points of the conference to the student.
B.
Before the video-conference, have the student submit questions in writing.
C.
Manipulate the seating arrangement.
D.
Record the audio portion of the video-conference for further listening.