This is a curriculum planning tool. Use it to be more explicit about the integration of higher order problem solving procedures and the full range of information and computer technology with ongoing professional practice in teaching and learning. It is not intended to be a replacement for the model of a lesson plan. It is rather a tool from which to plan one or more lessons of whatever number in order to meet a curriculum goal or objective. As per our explanation in earlier chapters, the LEAP model and the CROP model are not sequential models, rather nonlinear ones. That is, once the problem solving and computer uses are planned, the lessons that develop from this planning might move from one activity in some other order than the one given below. What is important is that activity takes places in all the stages of the model. Again as per the earlier study, the LEAP model is a learner centered perspective that puts the accent on developing human intelligence, which in turn can be magnified through the use of computer technology, but does not make the technology, the means of communication, the most important part of curriculum development.
Examine the computer literacy competencies for your grade level and state the grade level below. Create a model assignment or project for your classmates to consider that requires participants to use every stage of the LEAP model in the context of other state content competencies. Move the page into a web editor and fill in the boxes in the second column. In the right column, highlight (e.g., boldface or underline) the IT (instructional technology) that will be used.
Enter below a question or problem whose study and pursuit will enable learners to meet one or more curriculum goals.
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Assignment will require which information technology tools and what activities? |
Information technology example activities from which to select requirements(see links in left column for more explanation, examples and information; additional or more details items could be included than just those below) |
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| Look | brains: online expert systems; online yellow pages; online whitepages;
email and chat databases; video and audio databases
shelves: periodical databases; online library and bookstore databases (catalogs); museums; product/shopping systems hard drives: concept search engines; keyword search engines; meta-search engines; child-safe search engines; instructional software |
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| Evoke |
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outlining; spreadsheet; database; word processor; web page composition; web site composition, audio composition, music composition, video composition, animation, still image composition; 3-D composition | |
| Assess |
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spell checking; grammar checking;
online chat; share with email conference (e.g., listserv, newsgroup); online survey; videoconference |
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| Perform/Publish |
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brochure; newsletter; e-slideshow; web site; online audio/music; online video; virtual reality world |