Classroom for the Future

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Classroom for the Future

• Teaching with Probes and Models
• Welcome!

ITSI activities run on Windows, Macintosh and
Linux computers with Java 5 (1.5) or later
installed. If you are using Java 1.5 on MacOS
10.4 or later, you will almost certainly need to
fix a Java Web Start bug http//confluence.concor
d.org/display/CCTR/HowtofixtheWebStartbug
Carolyn Staudt carolyn_at_concord.org Ed Hazzard
ehazzard_at_concord.org
ITSI material is based upon work supported by the
National Science Foundation under Grant No.
ESI-0624718
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Agenda

• Opening survey (http//confluence.concord.org/disp
  lay/CSP/CFFsurveys)
• Introduction to Concord Consortium and
  Information Technology in
  Science Instruction (ITSI)project
• Log onto the Portal as a New Student
  (http//udl.portal.concord.org)
• Motion graphing activity as a group
• Introduction of Diffusion model activity
• Try out a temperature sensor activity
• Log onto the Portal as a New Teacher
• Customize/create an activity
• Wrapping-up survey /Q A

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The Concord Consortium

• Realizing the educational potential of
  information technologies
• Not-for-profit
• Educational research and development
• Focus Educational Technology
• Funding grants

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ITEST
Information Technology Experiences for Students
and Teachers (ITEST) was established by the
National Science Foundation in direct response
to the concern about shortages of information
technology workers in the United States
ITEST Learning Resource Center http//www2.edc.org
/itestlrc/
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ITEST Funding
H-1B is a non-immigrant visa category
Allows American companies and universities to
seek temporary help from skilled foreigners who
have the equivalent US Bachelors Degree education
H-1B employees are employed temporarily in a job
category that is considered by the US
Citizenship Immigration Services to be a
"specialty occupation
Microsoft,IBM,Oracle Corporation, Cisco, Intel,
QualComm, Yahoo, Hewlett Packard, and Google
5,000/year for 65,000 not including non-profit
universities
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ITSI Sites
126 hours of lab-based, credit-bearing
activities for 90 teachers Full support for
classroom implementation, using models and
sensors
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Inquiry throughModels and Probes
Models Computer models can simulate situations
that are hard to see (molecular motion) or hard
to understand (complex systems). They allow
students to study and manipulate phenomena that
are otherwise inaccessible. Students can also
modify the models and experiment with different
rules and starting conditions. They learn
programming and technology skills and science
content at the same time. Probes Using sensors
attached to real-time graphs, students can do
real experiments and take vivid and compelling
measurements. This encourages active engagement
in science and exploration of the natural world.
Students also learn the technology underlying the
sensors and how they collect and display
information.
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Inquiry throughModels and Probes
Models Molecular Workbench NetLogo Physics
Education Technology (PhET) Seismic
Eruption/Waves Modeling Across the
Curriculum Probes DataHarvest EasySense
Fourier EcoLog Pasco AirLink/Science Workshop
500 Texas Instruments CBL2 Vernier
LabPro/GoLink
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Portal Logon
http//itsi.portal.concord.org
1) Sign-up as a New Student 2) Complete the
Student Registration 3) Class sign-up word is
PACoach 4) Select Seeing Motion
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Inquiry throughFlexible Tech Tools
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Portal Logon
http//itsi.portal.concord.org
1) Sign-up as a New Teacher 2) Select for
City/Town 3) Select State/Province 4) Click on
Continue to Step 2 5) Select or add District 6)
Click on Continue to Step 3 7) Add school
information 8) Click on Continue to Step 4 9)
Complete the Teacher Registration
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Do It Yourself (DIY)Customization
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ITSI Dissemination
As of February 2009 68 teachers with 3,500
students have run 6,760 activities, or almost
two activities per student. Anticipate that
all 90 teachers will use the activities since
6,254 students have been registered.
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ITSI Customization
Currently about 1,000 activity titles in the
ITSI database. Curriculum developers at the
Concord Consortium created 180 Teachers
created an additional 377 Teachers customized
277 activities made at Concord Consortium
Teachers customized 188 activities made by
other teachers 60 activities were partly or
completely original, having new objectives or
inquiry tasks.
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ITSI District Site
How many times does a science teacher try
implementing a new technology, then goes back to
their old way of instructing because they don't
feel competent to use the new technology or
confident that the technology will work? With
ITSI, every participating teacher has
successfully implemented lessons they have
written that use probes and models100. Carol
Williamson, ITSI site coordinator
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Information Technology in Science Instruction
http//www.concord.org/presentations/ITSI_NSTA2_20
09.ppt

• Carolyn Staudt (carolyn_at_concord.org)
• Ed Hazzard (ehazzard_at_concord.org)

ITSI material is based upon work supported by the
National Science Foundation under Grant No.
ESI-0624718