Teaching Global Studies with Technology

Justin ReichTom Daccord

EdTechTeacher.org2/26/10

Saturday Goals

• Ask “Why Teach with Technology?”

• Review Backwards Planning

• Review Shneiderman’s Collect-Create-Relate-Donate Framework

• Examine exemplar wikis

• Learn to create a wiki

• Begin the process of designing a wiki!

Why Teach with Technology?

Why Teach with Technology?

1. Whoever is doing most of the talking, or most of the typing, is doing most of the learning (and the more people listening the better)

2. The more ways we put ideas in our head, the more likely they are to stay there

3. Learners need to be both independent and effective collaborators- technology can scaffold both

4. All of the sources that helped us fall in love with the discipline are accessible online

Two Helpful Theories• For designing courses, unit plans and

projects: Backwards Design

• For designing technology-based lessons: Collect-Relate-Create-Donate

Backwards Planning

See Wiggins and McTighe, Understanding by Design

Develop lesson activitiesHow will you prepare students to master the goals and succeed on the

assessment task?

Design assessment tasksHow will students demonstrate their developing mastery of those goals?

Select learning goalsWhat do you want students to learn by the end of the lesson or unit?

Collect-Relate-Create-Donate

Students Should…• Collect the information needed for the

performance of understanding

• Relate to one-another in collaborative learning groups

• Create meaningful, authentic performances of understanding

• Donate their work to a broader audience

Exemplar Wikis• Great Debate of 2008

• Flat Classroom Project

• AP World History Exam Review

• US History

• Global History Lessons

Why Wikis?• Wikis are flexible environments that can serve

multiple purposes. They are “blank slates”

• Wikis provide an easy mechanism for students and teachers to collaborate and communicate

• Wikis can be used to communicate with text, hyperlinks, images, audio files, embedded video, polls, and more…

Teaching Web 2.0 tools through “Challenges”

• Divide you into groups of ~3• Present you with a list of challenges of increasing

difficulty• Let you explore and practice at your own pace• Require you to turn to your groupmates for primary

support• Ask me anytime you get stuck• If enough folks are stuck in the same place, we’ll have a

mini-lesson

Wiki Challenges• http://harvard-tgswt-wiki.wikispaces.com/

Backwards Planning

See Wiggins and McTighe, Understanding by Design

Develop lesson activitiesHow will you prepare students to master the goals and succeed on the

assessment task?

Design assessment tasksHow will students demonstrate their developing mastery of those goals?

Select learning goalsWhat do you want students to learn by the end of the lesson or unit?

Collect-Relate-Create-Donate

Students Should…• Collect the information needed for the

performance of understanding

• Relate to one-another in collaborative learning groups

• Create meaningful, authentic performances of understanding

• Donate their work to a broader audience