From a learner perspective, how did the lesson activities support your achievement of this task? How did technology help you modify the files to meet your needs as a learner?
We did a proposal on implementing a composting system. Before we prepared our power point presentation, we utilized a brainstorming chart, which helped us get all our ideas out; a problem filter, to determine if our problem was something we realistically could solve; and an action plan, which helped us organize our plan. These activities helped us to organize our ideas before we took on the job of preparing our power point. What Christine did by preparing these activities for us was a form of scaffolding. She is supporting us with prompts to help us, with the target being that eventually we won’t need theses prompts.
By setting up these activities as templates, we were able to go in and add things directly to the worksheets without altering the master copy. By having hidden slides in the power point, we were guided as to how to approach each slide, but it was not seen on our final power point. Both of these uses of technology would be very useful in a classroom to help children learn a process, for instance. By using templates and hidden text or slides as guides initially, you are supporting or scaffolding students into how to do a process. Eventually, as you disassemble the scaffolding, they will be able to accomplish a task independently.
