Integrating Distant Resources in Learning: Post #1 Lesson Plan Outline
ASSURE: (Propaganda and Advertising Techniques)
Analyze Learners
General Characteristics:
The distant learner I instruct this year is enrolled in ELANCO Online. She is an advanced, eighth grade ELA student who is incredibly bright, but she has a history of refusing to come to school. She is a technologically savvy individual because ELANCO has been a 1-1 district for three years. She is familiar with employing a plethora of technology and completes her assigned work on time and with sufficient effort. New Holland is a rural, farming community with approximately 1500 students in the middle school/high school complex. We service students who primarily come from low to mid-income families. Over 40% of the student population receives free or reduced breakfast and lunch.
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Entry Competencies:
1. The distant is proficient at participating in a web quest.
2. The distant learner is proficient at using video (gallery walk activity).
3. The distant learner is proficient at using Canvas (Learning Management
System).
4. The distant learner is proficient at using Canva.com (poster
advertisement).
5. The distant learner is proficient at using search engines to conduct online
research (essay).
6. The distant learner is proficient at using Google Docs to generate a 3-way
essay.
7. The distant learner is proficient at using Myaccess, a digital writing provider.
Pennsylvania Common Core Standards:
http://static.pdesas.org/content/documents/PA%20Core%20Standards%20ELA%206-12%20March%202014.pdf
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ISTE Standards:
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1. Creativity and Innovation: Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.
2. Communication and Collaboration: Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.
3. Research and Information Fluency: Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
4. Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving, and Decision-Making: Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources.
5. Digital Citizenship: Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior.
6. Technology operations and Concepts: Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations.
http://www.iste.org/standards/ISTE-standards/standards-for-students
Objectives:
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1. Deep Understanding and Reasoning
Learning Target: The distant learner will critique advertisements and political cartoons and cite evidence to support how they impact the viewer by participating in a gallery walk and accurately responding to 90% of the briefly constructed-response questions.
3. Skills
Learning Target: The distant learner will demonstrate her knowledge of propaganda techniques, bias, and symbolism used in the advertising world today by creating an advertisement. The learner will be scored using a performance rubric with an expected level of mastery at the proficient level or higher.
4. Product
Learning Target: Keeping in mind that the Pledge of Allegiance originated as a marketing campaign, the distant learner will write a persuasive letter to the principal arguing her position on whether or not students should recite the Pledge of Allegiance in school. The distant learner will be expected to attain a holistic score of at least 5.1 (85%) or higher, out of 6.0 as stated on the Myaccess writing rubric.