Week 1 Blog Assignment

 Introduction: Hello! Thank you for visiting my blog! My name is Claire Molony and I teach high school science in Iowa. It is crazy to believe this is the start of my sixth year of teaching. Currently, I am focused on getting my Master's in Educational Technology so I am better able to incorporate technology into my classroom and maybe in the future switch to a technology job. I want to continue to grow as an educator and be better able to help my students be successful in the 21st Century. 

Computational Thinker indicator 5b says "students collect data or identify relevant data sets, use digital tools to analyze them and represent data in various way to facilitate problem-solving and decision-making." Students in a high school Biology class could address science standard HS-LS1-3 by using their technology to conduct and collect data to support their claim that feedback mechanisms maintain homeostasis. In the classroom, students can use a Google Sheet or Excel to collect data from their own experiment they designed, and then create graphs and charts to share the information with their classmates. Putting the information in a graph or chart allows it to be easier to read for all students and for students to identify the trends and meaning in the data. This way they can receive feedback on the data before moving on to the next step. They can also turn this information into an infographic, using Canva, to be printed and shared around the building to make the discoveries more accessible to all students. 

Kolb's Triple E framework is a way for educators to measure how well technology is helping students engage, enhance, and extend their learning (Kolb, 2020). Engaging in the learning should help time on task and create a shared sense of responsibility in a social sense. My lesson does this by students being able to share the Excel document or Google Sheet with their group. This way all students can see what is happening and offer solutions. Enhancement means it helps students move beyond just being engaged and the tool helps students somehow. Creating a final product in Canva would enhance the student learning because it will allow them to show what the data means to them and to their peers. Extension is the last "E" which asks us to reflect on if the technology builds skills to help students outside of school (Kolb, 2020). Both creating an infographic and learning how to use Excel are skills the students can use in any job because it will allow them to better share their message and can decrease work time when the program can do it for you. 

Kolb, L. (2020, December 9). About the Triple E Framework. Triple E Framework. 

https://www.tripleeframework.com/about.html

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  1. Amanda SiegerAugust 25, 2024 at 6:25 PM

    Hi Claire, I'm your neighbor to the north in Minnesota. :) It's so great to hear you're focused on growing as an educator, as I think that's important throughout the span of anyone's career. I'm starting year 28 and am still learning and growing every day! You did a great job of aligning your state standards to the ISTE standards as well as incorporating the 3 E's from Kolb. I also like the collaborative part of the lesson when students can share their final product and post it around the school for others to see. Nice work!

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