The high school ELA teacher in this video (via The Teaching Channel) shares how she is using Google Hangouts to help her students extend learning by connecting with other students across the U.S.. They are able to share ideas, cultural experiences, and most importantly practice speaking to an audience. She hopes that by these informal conversations, students will become more confident with speaking to people they do not know and may be different from themselves. In addition, she uses Google Hangouts to hold informal and optional video meet ups with her in the evenings and on weekends. This allows students to ask questions and get more personalized feedback on their class work and learning objectives. In addition, it allows the students another opportunity to work on their speaking skills.
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In this lesson (via the TIMS website), middle school students studying animal habitats and behaviors were able to extend their learning by selecting the appropriate technology to document different animals in their natural habitat.
Engagement: Students co-use the technology tools. They are purposely selecting tools that help them meet their end goal (focus on the time-on-task). Enhancement: The tools allow the students to collect the data, as well as scaffold their understanding of the data (putting it into easy to read charts/graphs). Extension: The technology tools allow students to document the animals in their natural habitat and study them, using the authentic data that they collect. In this lesson (via the TIMS website), high school students are interested in learning more about puppy mills and how to help stop them. They decide to put together a PSA on puppy mills. In order to do so, they use a variety of technology to meet their end goals. First, they research puppy mills on Google. Second, they use technology to interview an expert. Next, they map out and write their script. Then, they create their PSA podcast with Garageband and finally they share it out to the world. This is a wonderful example of the following areas of the Triple E:
Engagement: Students are co-using the technology tools. They are working together on all the aspects of the project, giving them opportunities to reflect and monitor each other's work. They also co-engage through the tools with their interview of the expert. They are selecting tools that meet their end goal, rather than choosing tools prior to knowing what they want to accomplish. Enhancement: Without the technology tools to interview their expert, research puppy mils or create their podcast, this would be very difficult to accomplish. Extension: Their virtual interview allowed the students to connect to the real world of puppy mills! It takes a village to support children in using technology tools for their cognitive growth. Often, parents want to know how to help their child use technology to learn and not just for pure entertainment. The Cooney Center has put together a nice report highlighting some easy activities where parents can co-engage with their children on using technology tools. Below we highlight some of these ideas and modify some to include other digital resources:
We have designed a lesson planning template to support teachers and schools using the Triple E Framework. The template helps teachers think about the tools they are using to engage, enhance and extend learning. The template also considers instructional moves that the teacher could use to better help leverage learning through the technology tool. We put together a completed sample template as well as a blank template. Please feel free to download and use as needed!
When considering tools for engagement, teachers are looking for tools that have built in "real time" collaboration. This collaboration allows for co-engagment around the content that the tool is sharing. Therefore, by jointly engaging through the tool, students are able to use reflective thinking practices such as probing, predicting, analysizing, synthesizing, and building knowledge together. A few tools that have some built in collaboration include;
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AuthorLiz Kolb is a clinical associate professor of education technologies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She works with over 150 preservice teachers every year on integrating technology into K-12 teaching. Categories
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