TIE III

Affordance/Pedigogical Implications and Blooms My project is with Mrs. Prezas 1st grade class at Ella Barns. I will be implementing a social studies lesson with the VT to promote higher level thinking skills. The 1st grade students will be required to solve a problem with their own invention that will make the world a better place. Once they have decided what their invention is going to be they will draw a picture of it. They will be studying different inventors and are required to tell which is their favorite one and what he/she has done for the world to make it a better place. They will be given a prompt with blanks for them to fill in the answers to these questions for themselves, like my invention is... it does........it will make the world better because....Then they will also tell us who there favorite inventor is and why. This is designed to get them excited about what they can do as well as exercise their right to answer higher end questions where they are to practice solving what they conceive to be a problem. Plus, after they have drawn, written and recorded their findings they are sure to remember at least their favorite inventor. I liked using the Voicethread in the lesson. I like the interactive features like the doodle and the fact that it can be used on a teachers blog for parents to see what their kids are doing. If I were to do this again, I would probably break the lesson into small groups and do it in small increments over a few days. My view is that it will be easier with the common shortage of computers. My only question about using Voicethread would have to be whether the program can be used on a regular basis without spending too much time managing some of the bugs found by our PSTs. Here are a few links to my peer responses of some really good Voicethreads Amanda Durham, Jena Mooney, and Bonnie Hall