Module Three: Lesson Analysis 1

Module Three: Lesson Analysis

Kennesaw State University

ECE 7514 Pedagogy for 21st Century P-5 Classrooms

June 21, 2017

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Module Three: Lesson Analysis

The K-4 Fossil Frenzy Lesson Plan provided by Nell Bang-Jensen from Microsoft

Education encourages students to use higher-order thinking to solve questions related to

fossils, and more specifically the Megladon. Teachers facilitate student learning by

discussing the findings from research completed through image searches, web searches,

and news searches. Students can complete this assignment individually or in groups to

foster collaboration with peers. Teachers are able to go beyond the four walls of the

classroom by utilizing the Virtual Field Trip platform found on the Microsoft Education

page and discuss dinosaurs more in depth with the experts themselves at the North

Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.

This lesson has characteristics of tier two on the “Tiers of Technology Integration

into the Classroom” scale. Tier two states, “this tier involves teacher facilitation of large

group learning activities and student productivity use of technology.” This lesson is a

whole group lesson and where the teacher leads students in brainstorming and sharing

ideas as well as facilitates group discussions and lessons. Teachers also lead the

interactive communication between the museum experts and students.

On the Level of Teaching Innovation Framework (LoTi), this lesson is a level

five, expansion. On the LoTi Framework scale, expansion states, “student collaborations

extending beyond the classroom are employed for authentic problem-solving and issues

resolution. Emphasis is placed on learner-centered strategies that promote personal goal

setting and self-monitoring, student action, and collaborations with other groups (e.g.,

another school, different cultures, business establishments, and governmental agencies).”

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In this lesson, students are collaborating beyond the classroom with specialists in the field

of study. Students are also collaborating with peers during class discussion.

In order to make this lesson stronger in regards to the matrices, lessons should be

more student-centered during the learning process. While the teacher could create the

higher-order thinking questions, students could generate answers and blog about their

findings through tools such as weblogs. Students could also create products based on

their findings. A good example of products to use would be the tools offered through

Office365. Students have access to creating and Office Mix, SWAYs, Excel Surveys, etc.

and they are able to direct their own technology use. Students are also able to collaborate

on these products by sharing these through their cloud. Projects can be published to

websites through embed codes and referred back to for later use. By creating these

projects, students become engaged in inquiry-based projects driven by essential questions

from the lesson.

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References

Bang-Jensen, N. (2015, October 12). K-4 Fossil Frenzy Lesson Plan. Retrieved from,

https://education.microsoft.com/Story/Lesson?token=Wj5I2.

Level of Teaching Innovation (LoTi) Framework. (2015). Retrieved from

https://loticonnection.cachefly.net/global_documents/LoTi_Framework_Sniff_Test.pdf.

Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction - Tech Literacy - Educational Technology.

(2016, March 16). Educational Technology. Retrieved from,

http://www.k12.wa.us/edtech/techliteracy/techinttiers.aspx.