EDM 310 Final Project: Capstone Learning Exercise (330 points)
As the final project for this semester each student will participate in their team’s creation
and presentation of a subject specific, problem-centered, and technology-assisted
learning exercise. You should consider this exercise and presentation as a significant
component of an electronic portfolio you can submit for your first teaching interviews
that will show what your future classroom would look like. This exercise will also
demonstrate your skills in both creating a project centered lesson and your use of
education technology tools that will support such a problem-centered and problembased approach to teaching and learning.
This is both a collaborative and a two part project.
Point Values:
Part A (200 points)
Technology and Teaching video – 70 points
Blog Post and Reflective Essay – 40 points
Team Photograph – 20 points
Team Video – 70 points
Part B (130 points)
Lesson Plan and SMARTBoard Presentation – 130 points
Part A: Your philosophical approach to technology and teaching (200 points)
Each STUDENT will need to gather or complete:
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A two minute (maximum) video in which you will address this question: In
addition to the interactive whiteboard, what are the most important technology
tools to use in the grades I will teach and why? (70 points)
A blog post and reflective essay (minimum 500 words) of yours on this topic
(“Being a Teacher in a Digital Age: My Philosophy”) (40 points)
Some essential questions your posting and essay will answer:
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How will you use digital tools, technologies, and networked information
resources to “know your subject”?
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In what ways do you hope to use digital technologies to create relevant
and meaningful learning experiences for your students?
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How will you use the digital tools and technologies you have learned
about in this course to engage your students in your classroom?
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How will you address the ‘digital divide’ that may exist in your
classroom?
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How will digital technologies play a role in your own teaching and
learning as a teacher?
3. Either of the two “SnapChat” biographical videos that you created for parents OR
the video you created for your students.
- If you feel the need to improve upon that video to meet the requirements of this
component of this project, you are welcome to do so. Please keep the original
time limit in mind.
Each TEAM must have:
1. A team photograph with everyone in the photograph dressed professionally (i.e.,
“dressed to impress”) (20 points)
2. An edited version of the SMARTboard lesson you will create for this project that
is no longer than 15 minutes
3. Any other video, audio, or text materials required for your project that is deemed
appropriate by the team.
4. An audio introduction to your lesson that is 2 minutes in length or less. This could
also be an original music piece.
5. A TEAM produced and collaborative (i.e., everyone has something to say in this
video) 5 minute Reflection video, that addresses the following questions: (70
points)
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How does this lesson build on the technological literacy of your students?
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In what specific ways does the project(s) engage your students?
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What additional technologies and/or networked information resources may
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have further enhanced this lesson?
If I/we had the opportunity to present this lesson again to a similar audience,
would I/we do anything differently? What would I/we do? Why would I/we do
it?
Part B: A subject-specific, project-based, and technology-assisted lesson
delivered via SMARTboard AND formally presented to your EDM 310 classmates
and invited guests. (130 points)
This project is an amplification of the skills that you demonstrated in the SMARTBoard
Demonstration Project. This project must be done as a collaborative project with the
members of your team. You may build on a lesson plan you found as part of the
ALEX/AVL Research Project OR you may choose to create a new lesson plan from
scratch.
For this project, you must adapt the ALEX Lesson plan you found to fit format of the
Lesson Plan supplied (K-6 or Secondary) or a similarly USA approved lesson plan
format for your lesson plan.
You must video record your lesson and submit that recording as part of your team’s
submission of this project.
If your team chooses to create a new lesson plan:
1. This will be a lesson your team will create from scratch and by consensus.
2. You must select a learning objective from the Alabama College and Career Ready
Standards for the grade level or subject area select by your team and by consensus.
3. Select a lesson from any of the subject areas.
4. You must create a project-based and technology assisted lesson that will address
that objective.
5. You must use the Lesson Plan format supplied (K-6 or Secondary)
6. See Lesson Project Design Rubric for details associated with the evaluation of this
component of this assignment.
Your formal presentation will consist of the following elements and parameters:
a. You will have seven (7) minutes to present your lesson.
b. You are welcome to use your video recording as a component of your presentation
c. You will present your lesson as a team and with the specific role(s) for each member
involved with this project made clear to the audience.
d. Your presentation will highlight the subject, project-based elements, and all of the
educational technologies (including the SMARTboard) that are associated with your
lesson.
e. You should dress appropriately and approach this presentation as one similar to one
you would do as a presenter and professional teacher at a grade level faculty
meeting in your school.
ALL members of the team must actively participate in conducting the lessons, or in parts
of the lesson sufficient to clearly demonstrate their active participation in this project to
receive INDIVIDUAL credit for this project.
Part B will be presented IN CLASS and during our class meetings on 12/03 and
12/08/15. You will have an audience of your classmates and invited guests.
The room location will be announced.
Your attendance in class for these presentations is mandatory.
Unless you have a dire medical or other appropriate emergency that precludes your
attendance on these dates, I will lower your final grade in this course by one letter
grade in each instance if you fail to attend either or both these presentations.
What every student needs to remember about this project:
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The emphasis of this project is on delivering a formal presentation that will
illustrate the essential elements of an effective content-driven, problem-centered,
project-based, and technology-assisted learning experience for a student at a
given grade level.
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The message that you want to convey is that your students will learn something
brand new and in that process they will collaborate and share something they
learn with others.
In this project, you (and your team) will create a variety of messages that are
related in some way to what YOU have learned in EDM310, what you have
discovered about the role that technology can play in your classroom teaching,
and how problem-centered and project-based learning can be a useful strategy
for both classroom teaching and student learning.
Your goal here is to LEARN. It is highly likely that you will make mistakes in this
process.
In this project, creativity will be of greater value to you than aesthetics.
Take chances, be daring, and share what you learn.