Hypermedia-Enhanced Lesson Plans Across the Curriculum and School Levels

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Hypermedia-Enhanced Lesson Plans Across the
Curriculum and School Levels

• Hope J. HartmanCity College of New York
• hhartman_at_ccny.cuny.edu
• New Educator Conference
• New York, N.Y. Oct.21, 2006

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Definitions

• Hypermedia Lesson Plan has hot links embedded
  within it for interaction. The InTime lesson
  plans include links to national standards and
  links to definitions of terms based on their
  pedagogical model.
• Hypermedia-Enhanced means that there has been
  elaboration of the hypermedia lesson plan. At
  HyLighter, students annotate the lesson plan
  connecting it to course concepts and identifying
  relevant video clips illustrating the connections.

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Purpose of Project

• Synthesize ideas from the course as they apply to
  a particular exemplary lesson.
• Enhance abilities to make connections between
  ideas from the course and resources available on
  the Internet.
• Demonstrate deep understanding of principles of
  effective learning, teaching and development.

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Two Primary Sites for This Project

• InTime http//www.intime.uni.edu/
• Database of technologically enhanced and
  pedagogically sound hypermedia lesson plans and
  videos
• Pre-K 12 across the curriculum
• HyLighter http//www.hylighter.com/
• Interactive annotation technology

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InTime Lesson Choices Psychology of Learning
Teaching (Grad.)

• Read the following lesson plans and choose one of
  them for your project.
• A. PreK Classroom Website
• B. K I Love Spiders
• C. Grade 1, 2 Giving em the Business
• D. Grade 3-5 Show Me Missouris
  Temperatures

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InTime Lesson Choices Adolescent Learning
Development (Grad Ugrad)

• Read the following lesson plans and choose one of
  them for your project.
• A. Middle School, Grades 7, 8 Water Quality in
  Greenhills Stream
• B. Intermediate School Grades 8, 9 Graphing
  Linear Equations
• C. High School Grades 9 11 Special Education
  Assistive Technology in the Writing Process
• D. High School Grades 912 Introduction to
  Black Studies

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Probing Questions Tasks (Indiv/Group)

• Answer probing questions uploaded at the
  HyLighter site for the 5 identified components of
  the InTime model
• Learning, Information Processing, Democracy,
  Teacher Knowledge, Teacher Behavior
• First do individually, then synthesize as a
  group.
• Answer the pre-video observation questions.
• View the lesson videos, at least the 5 required
  components.
• Answer the post-video observation questions.

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Make Connections

• Annotate lesson plans at the HyLighter site.
  First do individually, then synthesize as a
  group.
• Identify and explain connections between ideas
  in the lesson plan and ideas from our course.
• Make links of connections to specific relevant
  parts of the InTime lesson videos.

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Sample Topics for Connections

• Activating students prior knowledge of a topic
  (valid and misconceptions)
• Students thinking and learning processes,
  strategies/skills
• Students intrinsic/extrinsic motivation
• Students attitudes, emotions and
  self-perceptions
• Teachers attitudes
• Instructional methods e.g. cooperative learning,
  scaffolding

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Sample Topics for Connections (cont.)

• Transfer to everyday life experience
• Transfer to other subjects
• Culturally responsive teaching
• Parents attitudes, behaviors and school
  involvement
• Factors affecting students development school
  achievement
• Theories e.g. Piaget, Vygotsky, Sternberg,
  Gardner

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Class Presentation

• Selected Pre and Post Probing Questions
• Selected connections between lesson plan and
  course information
• Selected Video Clips showing connections

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Culminating Experience

• Hypermedia-Enhanced Lesson Plans are a
  performance-based alternative form of course
  assessment, in lieu of a final exam.
• Students are graded on
• Answers to probing questions
• Connections and videos identified
• Class presentation