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I learned about web-based resources for communication, collaboration, design, creation, and making. Now apply my understanding of these concepts by completing the following activities. Using my knowledge about web-based communication, collaboration, design, creation, and making resources introduced in this chapter (communication and collaboration resources, website design and development, and computer programming), generate at least one new technological possibility for targeting Mr. Patel’s pro.

Step 1: Analyze problems of practice (POPs).

Step 2: Assess technological resources of students, families, teachers, and the school.

Step 3: Identify technological possibilities.

Step 4: Decide on learning objectives and assessments.

Step 5: Design integration strategies and determine relative advantage.

Step 6: Prepare instructional environment and implement lesson

Step 7: Analyze lesson results and impact After the unit, Mr. Patel reviewed the results.

Step 8: Make revisions based on results.

Step 9: Share lessons, revisions, and outcomes with other peer teachers.

 

In my opinion, from Step 6: would be best for learning statistics and would there be an advantage to your enhanced class additions.They are Video development, Lego activity, Conceptual questions, quiz and survey development. —Mr. Patel carefully considered the content on data measurement that he wanted his students to master. He wrote a script for what he would cover before beginning actual videotaping and created slides. With Ms. Anand’s help, they decided to create the video using the Explain Everything app. I think that is awesome one that I will use in my class. Video is so helpful in preparing to teach and learn. We can edit by ourselves to focus in the direct lesson that make student understand this and learn perfectly. Moreover, there is Logo activity to enhance class that make student practice with video. And there is the post-video and post-Lego conceptual questions, the unit quiz, and the attitude survey to analysis and revisions.

How you would use technologies Mr. Patel may have overlooked, and/or how you would enhance this class?

In this case study, Mr. Patel nicely-researched and applied technologies to the class, which truly helps him find a great approach to presenting the learning content. He mentioned that the "flipping for mastery" model" is an approach which "students watch videos at home and answer questions about them, then come into class to apply and "debug" or correct errors and fine-tune skills they had learned"(204). However, when he planned and took it into measures, he didn't emphasize the "answering questions", "correction",and "debug" parts.

Firstly of all, I think the comprehensive questions and exercises after students watching the videos are very important. They can help instructors know if these videos are effective learning materials and which students need extra help, that is, tutorial sessions. Secondly, after students finishing the videos and comprehensive exercises, there should be a feedback to let students themselves know how they perform. Based on this feedback, they can correct and make progress.

Learning Statistics for me is a difficult concept. I took a class at my college. Although it is basic statistics and objective with data and factual, it involved a lot of abstract counting that needs practice. Back then, we don't have that much technology resources to support the learning. Similar to Mr. Patel, he used direct instruction, including lectures, problem worksheets, quizzes, and tests. I like here that he was assessing the problem and ask help for school tech specialist. If there is anything I would add on his lecture plans, I would modify his outcome related to quizzes. I think quizzes are good for assessing their concepts and I think it would be a group project. Statistics is not like learning History that you only need the facts and years. It is important to know how you count toward the result and even learn from each other to analyze the data. 

Therefore, teamwork and discussion will also help enhance the class. Also, videos are also a good method. Not only the one for measure outcome but also sharing some extra resources to help students learn in a variety ways. There are many open resources now and Mr. Patel can review the resources first. So, students have additional resources that approve by profession and at their level. One video that I found on YouTube is really easy to understand what is Statistics.