Designing Teachers: UCLA's IMMEX with a Kentucky Twist

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Designing Teachers UCLA's IMMEX with a Kentucky
Twist
Lucinda Sanders Kim Overstreet Roger Mullins
Fayette County Public Schools Lexington,
Kentucky
This material is based on work supported by the
National Science Foundation Grant Number
ESI-0323036.
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IMMEX Interactive MultiMedia Exercises www.immex.u
cla.edu
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IMMEX

• Is a free web-delivered, interactive assessment
  tool.
• Integrates subject specific content and problem
  solving into real-world scenarios.
• Provides long-term performance data for both
  students and teachers so that assessment is
  formative and ongoing.

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The Fayette County NSF Project

• A community-integrated model in which teams of
  teachers, students, and business partners,
  construct interactive, problem-solving
  simulations in summer technology institutes for
  teachers and students.
• http//teach.fcps.net/immex

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How are we doing this in Fayette County Public
Schools?

• Training

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How are we doing this in Fayette County Public
Schools?

• Teamwork
• Students
• Liaison teachers
• Technology Resource Teachers
• Business partners

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Results So Far
10 more problem sets needed
32 problem sets completed
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Schools operating at a highlevel of computer
effectiveness focus on

• problem solving
• applying and integrating knowledge
• active learning
• performance assessments

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• Maximizing the use of the Internet for
  collaboration, research, communication, and
  production requires teachers to first teach their
  students to think critically -- this involves a
  significant paradigm change for most teachers.
• Using IMMEX to teach critical thinking skills
• Foundation for Critical Thinking
• www.criticalthinking.org

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Whenever we think
In attempting to answer a QUESTION, solve a
PROBLEM, or resolve an ISSUE.
We think for a PURPOSE.
Based on CONCEPTS and theories.
Within a POINT OF VIEW.
Elements Of Reasoning
To make INFERENCES and judgments.
Based on ASSUMPTIONS.
We use DATA, facts, and experiences.
Leading to IMPLICATIONS and CONSEQUENCES.
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Clones
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Teacher Tools

• Good instruction demands good assessment
• is frequent,
• provides immediate feedback,
• is integrated with instruction,
• and directly measures student performance.

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TRUE ROOTS A FIRST ATTEMPT
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Staging a Request

• UCLA requests that you stage your requests to use
  IMMEX one week in advance.
• All requests for the school year 2005-2006 must
  be made prior to November 15, 2005 and will run
  through March 31, 2006.
• You may stage as many problem sets for as many
  classes as you like.

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Staging a Request

• Go to http//teach.fcps.net/immex/ and click on
  stagable problem sets at the top.
• This spreadsheet gives the name, the content, and
  the grade level of all the problem sets currently
  being offered by UCLA.
• Make a note of the problem sets you want to use.

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Staging a Request

• Go to http//www.immex.ucla.edu/.
• Click on scheduling my class to use an IMMEX
  problem set.
• Highlight the problem sets you want to use during
  the 2005-2006 school year.
• Fill in the General Information section. Be sure
  to use a phone number where you can be reached
  during the day if they have questions about your
  staging request.

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Staging a Request

• Name your classes, (ex) Mrs. Smiths Science
  2005-2006.
• Give a description (ex.) Earth Science.
• Put the number of students in all your classes
  plus 10
• Put the grade and level
• Check the number of periods that you have that
  fit this description.
• UCLA asks that you fill out a separate form for
  each grade level.

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Staging a Request

• Click on the calendars to set the beginning and
  the ending dates for your requests.
• For the 2005-2006 school year, the ending date is
  March 31, 2006.
• Do not check the participant information box.
• Check actual classroom performance.
• Click on submit.
• You will receive an e-mail from UCLA confirming
  your request and giving you both student
  usernames and passwords.

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WWW.IMMEX.UCLA.EDU
YOU MAY ACCESS IMMEX ON A TRIAL BASIS

• Affiliation Fayette County Public Schools
• Login 05mx1over01 05mx1over35
• Password immex
• Class name NMSA Conference 2005-2006
• Passwords good through 3/31/06

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Read more about it!

• KY Teacher article
• Fayette students create word problems for other
  students around the world to solve, October 2005
  issue, http//www.education.ky.gov/KDE/Default.htm
  
• New York Times article
• August 3, 2005 edition Software That Lets
  Teachers Take a Peek by Lisa Guernsey.
  http//www.immex.ucla.edu/docs/publications/pdf/Ne
  w_York_Times_Aug_03_2005.pdf
• UCLAs IMMEX web site
• http//www.immex.ucla.edu
• Fayette County IMMEX web site
• http//teach.fcps.net/immex