Week 1

Week 1 Technology

Day 1

• pretest (30 min)
• teacher intro (25 min)
  • verbal start
  • student groups choose a video and describe in
  • all descriptions are made available to all groups, and teacher
  • verbally discuss good description, give a pivotal idea\
  • groups revise what they wrote
• homework: describe more videos

Day 2

• teacher demos motion sensor (5 min)
• game: position slalom (15 min)
  • series of graphs each more difficult with automatic scoring as they get close to matching each graph
  • inquiry index
    • computed based on tries, and score increasing over time
    • scytacki: I don't believe that index will correlate to inquiry
• activity: predict, try, evaluate prediction, evaluate ideas (25 min)
• conceptual probe: graph produced by teacher and student sent to each student group. (10min)
  • groups annotate the graph: closest, farthest, fastest, and stopped.
  • graphs marked with group pseudonym and shown aggregated to the class.
  • before class teacher has to predict student performance, this is combined with actual results on teacher computer.
• homework: predict a graph of objects motion over 3 meters, also can play slalom game outside of class
• optional activity: students create x,t pairs for a graph then try to reproduce the graph.

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5