Adults+Looking+at+Learning


 * Looking At The Learning **

At the end of this hour, participants will:


 * understand how to look at a lesson using various Internet tools to share and reflect in small groups and then add those reflections to the group discussion
 * examine a specific lesson from various perspectives (the tools used, the learning objectives, and student safety) and determine the level of Bloom's taxonomy on which the students are expected to work.
 * learn from one group's examination of several tools on how to extend/change the demonstrated lesson
 * experience small group differentiation as teachers to examine a specific lesson
 * learn from a process observer group's observations to explore the macro lesson of workshopping adults

Today's lesson plan: As the anticipatory set, we'll demonstrate a very quick student lesson using a variety of technology:

Then, the adult lesson activity will begin: We'll split into groups to examine the student lesson from several perspectives, sharing our viewpoints to determine the potential/actual depth of that lesson. Theere will be one group of participants who will be the process observers--simply watching the overall behavior and engagement of the participating teachers int eh model classroom.
 * iPod Touches
 * the Internet
 * a document camera
 * an LCD projector
 * calculators (either handheld or on the iTouch)
 * chart paper and
 * paper and pencil.

Group 1 Tools

Group 2 Learning Objectives

Group 3 Student Safety

For the second learning activity, we'll split into two groups (a face to face group and an online group) to debrief from the three groups that examined the lesson from various perspectives.

As closure, we'll hear from Group 4, the Process Observer Group and have a metacognitive discussion on the process we just experienced.