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One way to begin to explore how the integration of technology can enhance students’ learning is by investigating how other teachers have approached this challenge.

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In this short course, you’ll have the opportunity to hear from a colleague.

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Marquita Hockaday has recently taught high school social studies in Virginia.

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She has been using digital tools and resources in her teaching for several years.

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Marquita will share with you how she navigates this decision-making and planning process.

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While you and she undoubtedly will approach these tasks somewhat differently,

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it can be helpful to understand how another teacher draws on her knowledge and experience to plan lessons that make effective use of technologies for her students.

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In this module, you will be asked to select and review three lessons in your content area and approximate grade level that integrate technology to support teaching and learning.

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We have curated collections of lesson plans that have been designed by preservice teachers like you.

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Links to these lesson plan documents are available on the LAT Short Course Resources document.

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Please feel free to use other resources, also.

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When you are selecting lessons to examine, we suggest that you find ones that are

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interesting to you, clearly explained in considerable detail, and manageable in scope.

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Ideally, they should connect with the curriculum content and skills you will be teaching in the current or coming semester.

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For this step in the short course, it's probably better to choose single lessons rather than multi-day projects.

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Please pause now to select and download three lessons to work with.

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You will annotate these in the steps that follow.

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As you read through each lesson, identify the following essential attributes.

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Add notes and/or comments in the lesson plan documents about the:

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Curriculum focus, standards, and learning goals around which the lesson is structured;

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the learning activities in which the students will be engaged (remember: consider what the students - not the teacher – are doing in each phase of the lesson);

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assessments of students’ learning during the lesson - formally or informally - if any; and

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Technologies, both digital and non-digital, that are used in the lesson.

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Examples of digital technologies include, for example, Web sites, software, and digital cameras.

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Examples of nondigital technologies include, for example, textbooks, paper notebooks, and whiteboards.

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Now it’s time for you to annotate the three lessons that you selected and downloaded.

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Microsoft Word’s highlighting and commenting features work well for this process.

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With the highlighter tool, you can use different colors to highlight different aspects of the design.

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For example, I’m using yellow to highlight the learning activities and green to highlight the technologies.

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You can also add notes in the margins using the comment feature.

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Once you have selected, downloaded, annotated, and saved the three lessons, please put these documents aside for now. We will return to them soon.