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World history content report jennifer Roma itec 7400 it’s not all dates, wars and dead people • I have discovered when teaching world history that as a teacher you can get very caught up in lecturing and giving tons of notes to get the content distributed. • As a teacher, we have so many standards that we have to cover in not nearly enough time, it makes us want to inundate our students with too much information. • What do we get as a result? Students that hate history! How do we fix that? • Unlike when we (teachers) were younger and in school and we learned through lecture/instruction and tests, many of our students these days don’t respond as well to those methods. • They are 21st century learners and have grown up in a lifetime full of technology. It is a part of who they are. • As teachers, we have to find ways to embrace that technology and bring it into our classrooms if we want to help our students So many options, so little time • I know how hard it is as teachers for us to find new ways of doing things and new tools to use in the classroom. • That being said, I want to offer up a few of my favorite Instructional Technology tools that I have used in my World History classroom. • I have tried many, some that didn’t go so well, but these are ones that myself, as well as my students, have truly enjoyed and have benefitted from. Poll everywhere & SRS (iRespond) • I found a fun new way to check for student understanding without getting out the entire kit and kaboodle we know and love as iRespond. Poll Everywhere is a great tool that the students love too. • Students can use their cell phones and text answers to questions, either multiple choice answers or free response, to a question you have posted up on the screen. Poll everywhere & SRS (iRespond) • As Cobb County teachers, we all have access to the iRespond Student Response System. • I use this tool for summative tests in the classroom as well as formative assessments on a regular basis. • Using iRespond for formative assessments allows us as teachers to group students immediately based on their level of understanding the content and can then spend extra time with students who need it. earthpoint • This is a mapping software that we have on many of our computers at school for teacher and student use. • It gives us interactive, current maps that are updated every time you log on to the software. • It provides layers of information and detailed content that cover everything from political, agriculture, religion, landforms, population and so much more. • I think the LoTi level on both the Poll Everywhere/iRespond and Earthpoint is at a 3 based on using them for discovery. • I definitely think that Earthpoint could be higher if students were using it to produce a product for a presentation. • The assessments component of Poll Everywhere and iRespond contributes to strong EL indicators. • Earthpoint EL indicators can be student directed, authentic, and student explorer/teacher/producer. • Because of how versatile these tools are, they can be used with any standard that we cover in World History throughout the course. Webquests • I love webquests and think they are an excellent way to “up” the learning level in a classroom. • Students usually enjoy them as well because they get to spend time on the computer learning instead of listening to their teacher! • There are great webquests out there on the web and you can search for very specific subjects. I have used www.webquest.org to search for them as well as just typing a request in my google search. Webquests • We do a couple of webquests in World History, but my favorite one (and I think the students favorite one too!) is for World War I. • Once it is finished, the students will be able to access it from my website, www.romasworldhistory.weebly.com and they can work on it outside of class if they want to. • Webquests can run the gamut of LoTi levels and EL indicators so you want to look for ones that don’t just ask the students to do basic research. • You should use a Webquest that requires information gathering that is then used to solve real or authentic problems relating to the overall theme or concept. • In using a webquest like this, your students can easily achieve a 4B LoTi level. • The webquest needs to feel like problem based learning, instead of information gathering. • The EL indicators in a good webquest can have authentic, student-directed learning tasks that are multidisciplinary also. The student can be the explorer, teacher, and producer and they will need to have good collaborating skills if they are doing this in a group of their peers. The teacher acts mainly as a facilitator in a well structured class. • The standards addressed for a World War I webquest are SSWH16: The student will demonstrate an understanding of long-term causes of WWI and its global impact. • Again, a good webquest like the one we are doing for WWI will meet nets-s standards 1-4 extensively. Digital Storytelling • Another great tool that can be utilized in world history is digital storytelling. • I tell my students that professionals can sometimes put together a video that covers in 10 minutes what I would need 2 days to cover. • PBS.org does a great job at this for many different content areas. I used www.pbs.org/greatwar as a resource for my students. It provided them with video and audio clips of important facts and people involved with WWI. Educational Websites • As a teacher, one of the best technology resources I have found is Discovery Education. • Great long and short video clips as well as quiz’s and video guides to go along with them. • One of the tools the students love on this site is the crossword maker. They can take a topic and do research on it, then create a crossword that they can use to give to the class after sharing the information that they learned. • Both the digital storytelling sites, like PBS.org, and educational websites, like Discovery education easily provide for a LoTi level of 4B with technology being used to provide a rich context for student understanding. • I believe that the EL indicators are strong in Content and learning goals, learning tasks are authentic with students roles being those of explorer/teacher/producer in many facets. The teacher serves as a facilitator and/or guide for the students with these sites. • Typically these types of tools are used in conjunction with students in small groups which requires them to focus on their collaboration skills as well. • The use of these types of tools encourage the A little something extra • I have to give some credit to the History Channel too! • “Modern Marvels, Pawn Stars & American Pickers” • Great tools to help with teaching: “America: The Story of Us”, “The Men Who Built America”, and the upcoming “Mankind: The Story of All of US” The Fine Print • It’s important for us as educators to remember that our students live in an age of new technology every time we turn around. • The release of the next iPhone or Droid phone is always just around the corner. • We have to stay technologically relevant to continue to reach them on a higher learning level!