Subject: RE: [IFETS-Discuss] Digest for ifets-discuss@topica.com, issue 31
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Date: Thu 29 Jun 2000 - 01:54:18 MEST
From: mahaley@mail.duke.edu Subject: RE: [IFETS-Discuss] Digest for ifets-discuss@topica.com, issue 31 Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:54:18 -0700
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Hello Nancy -
I'm not sure if this will be of much use for the audience you need to reach, but, while a public school teacher in the
local district (CH, NC), I used web resources for instruction with elementary level students. Specifically, I designed a
few "treasure hunt" activities using existing web sites, based on the themes/content of the grade-level curricula.
Typically, this involved a fair amount of front-end work on my part (the teacher's) to do web searches and bookmark sites,
and then to develop a series of questions that would guide the students through an initial fact-finding stage to an
information synthesis stage in which they would produce some report, project, etc.
You can use the exisiting taxonomies for question development (hmmm, dusting off the shelf here..) and start simple and
go creative at the end. It was a very interesting time, with great results when the students worked together to read
through the online materials, view the quicktimes, etc., and then apply what they found to some hypothetical situation.
Steve
Nancy Fire wrote:
I fully agree with you. Multimedia is not what we need to engage learners although it helps a little with
motivation. and we don't need to do what CBT already has done. I'm looking for ways people in my field
(Early
Childhood Special Education) can teach difficult concepts via Web-based training and engage learners.
These faculty
who are teaching workshops to child care workers, administrators, early interventionists, preschool teachers
are not
going to have the funds to utilize high end multimedia. Theyare going to have to tap their utmost
creativity and
teach with real world situations using all we know about learning. Let's keep talking. I think this is a
very
important concept. I think one key skill for them will be the art of questioning. The other will be
creating
engaging stories or cases (Spiro's) work. Other ideas...references...??? Thanks
P.S. I'm a doctoral student working with Web-based instructional design so this is doubly fascinating. I'm
currently
writing an 18 hour Web-based workshop to help others develop their own Web-based training.
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