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Title: Integrating Instructional Software into Teaching and Learning


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Integrating Instructional Software into Teaching
and Learning
  • By Derek Baker
  • Texas AM-Commerce
  • Hall Director of New Pride Apartments

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Overview
  • Drill and Practice Activities
  • Tutorial Activities
  • Simulation Activities
  • Instructional Games
  • Problem Solving Courseware
  • Integrated Learning Systems
  • Evaluating and Selecting Instructional Software

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Drill and Practice (Kill) Activities
  • Definition Characteristics
  • Issues Related to Drill and Practice
  • Automatic recall of arithmetic
  • Keyboard proficiency
  • Graded compositions
  • Many schools still require students to memorize
    facts
  • College entrance exams other standardized tests
    require quick recall of many facts

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How to Use Drill and Kill in Teaching
  • Benefits of drill functions
  • Immediate feedback
  • Motivation
  • Saving Teacher time
  • Classroom applications of drill functions
  • Supplement/replace worksheets and homework
    exercises
  • In preparation for tests
  • Guidelines for using drill and kill
  • Set time limits
  • Assign individually Use learning stations

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Tutorial Activities
  • Definition Characteristics
  • Delivers an entire day worth of teaching just in
    another form
  • Issues Related to Tutorials
  • Well designed packages
  • Cost

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How to use Tutorials in Teaching
  • Benefits of tutorial functions
  • Substitutes for teacher presentation
  • Classroom applications of tutorial functions
  • Self-paced reviews of instruction
  • Alternative learning strategies
  • Instruction when teachers are unavailable
  • Guidelines for using tutorials
  • Make tutorials as a learning station
  • Available for checkout

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Simulation Activities
  • Definition Characteristics
  • A role playing where the user needs to use
    critical thinking skills
  • Issues Related to Simulations
  • Very young children that are in the early stages
    of their cognitive development should use one
    fives senses compare to the use of 1 or 2 senses
    (eyes and/or ears)

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How to Use Simulations in Teaching
  • Benefits of simulation functions
  • Compress time
  • Slow down processes
  • Get students involved
  • Make experimentation safe
  • Make the impossible possible
  • Save money other resources
  • Repeat w/ variations
  • Make situations controllable

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How to Use Simulations in Teaching (cont.)
  • Classroom applications of simulation functions
  • In place of or as supplements to lab experiments
  • In place of or as supplements to role playing
  • In place of or as supplements to field trips
  • Introducing a new topic
  • Fostering exploration and process learning
  • Encouraging cooperation and group work
  • Guidelines for using simulation functions
  • Choose the correct size
  • Locate one for topic

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Instructional Games
  • Definition Characteristics
  • Courseware that the function is to increase
    motivation by adding game rules to the activity
  • Issues Related to Instructional Games
  • Overused and misused
  • How to Use Instructional Games in Teaching
  • In place of worksheets and exercises
  • To foster cooperation and group work
  • As a reward

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Problem Solving Courseware
  • Definition Characteristics
  • Issues Related to Problem Solving Courseware
  • Names verses skills
  • Courseware claims versus effectiveness
  • Possible harmful effects if directed instruction
  • The problem of transfer
  • How to Use Problem Solving Courseware in
    Teaching
  • Benefits, applications, and guidelines for using
    directed strategies with problem-solving
    courseware
  • Benefits, applications, and guidelines for using
    constructivist strategies with problem solving
    courseware
  • Guidelines for using problem solving software

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Integrated Learning Systems (ILS)
  • Definition Characteristics
  • Issues Related to ILSs
  • Cost of ILS
  • Research on ILS impact
  • Concerns about the role of ILS
  • How to Use ILSs in Teaching
  • Directed applications for ILSs
  • For remediation
  • As a mainstream delivery system
  • Constructivist applications for ILSs

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Evaluating Selecting Instructional Software
  • The Need for Evaluation
  • Courseware Evaluation Procedures
  • Begin with an identified need
  • Locate titles
  • Complete hands on reviews
  • Collect student reviews
  • Courseware Evaluation Procedures
  • Selecting Software for Constructivist Versus
    Directed Uses

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