Running head: ABC COMMUNITY SCHOOL 1

ABC Community School

April 06, 2021

Rosalie Romeo
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ABC Community School Proposal

Children are learning from the moment that they are born. They learn how to sit up,

crawl, take their first steps, and eventually run. After their motor skills are learned, children need

help to develop their knowledge and their language skills. Kids learn from every adult that they

encounter, so schools are a wonderful place to gather students and teach them how the world

works as well as how math operates, what are the mechanics of English, how science is in

everyday life, and how history shapes today and the future.

Technology is a big part of education today. Traditional books and paper are an awesome tool to

help students practice and learn, but technology can take it 1,000 steps further. Every student

learns in their own way. Some students might be auditory, visual, linguistic, kinesthetic, logical,

social or solitary learners. Technology allows students to tap into all those different learning

styles and use more than just one at a time.

With websites like Nearpod, where students can interact with what would have been a

once boring passive lecture, they can now actively participate and engage in every lesson inside

and outside of the classroom. Students can also actively participate on at their own pace.

Nearpod allows for video content, audio content, and mathematical memory games. Other

websites like Jamboard allow students to easily collaborate with students and teachers on one

single online whiteboard with a multitude of interactive tools: drawing, voice recording, shape

tools, equation tools, and many more. This allows students to see what the teacher is creating on

one slide as well as look at and compare their slide to their classmates. It allows students to

provide direct feedback to a classmate that might be sitting on the other side of the room.

Technology can bring the class together as a whole, compared to what a book and piece of paper

can do to the group of three to four desks can do. There are even websites like IXL that provide
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free, pre-made supplemental lessons that fit with the standards aligned to each state. These are

perfect for students who like to play video games because they format it as if they were playing a

game, but they are learning key and critical concepts needed for their grade levels.

Additionally, “Technology can provide a voice for students who cannot speak and alter-

native input modalities for those who cannot see or physically respond in usual ways.”

Technology allows students with disabilities to use devices for visual, auditory, and tactile

learning. It allows students who might have physical disabilities like muscular dystrophy or even

Down Syndrome to use technology for writing through word processing, text-to-speech, and

talking spell check. (Lever-duffy & McDonald, 2017, p.182-184).

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Identification of Standards

Standards at the state level push students to apply their knowledge to create new or

original work that would explore current educational topics while using different digital tools.

They allow students of all grades to brainstorm, problem solve, use group expressions and

student led learning in order to demonstrate their levels of understanding when it comes to the

materials of the lessons.

These standards also allow students to communicate and collaborate with other students

using a variety of digital tools like digital texts and resources to research, innovate, inform

fluency, decision make, critically think and demonstrate digital citizenship. Each standard can be

modified and tweaked to fit each grade level. The state standard CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-

12.1, which has students cite textual evidence to support their analysis from their sources can fit

into the technology standard 2.A.12.1: work in classroom groups to create and publish digital

products, by using digital tools like Jamboard or Google Slides and many more to show their

understanding of their research. Elementary aged children or higher can each generate their own

original work based on the topic, by adding graphics and text to a slide, then having the teacher

put them together into one slide deck to make one whole slideshow that shows group work on a

singular topic.

The state standard CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.7: integrate and evaluate multiple

sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively,

as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem can easily be used with

the technology standard 2.B.12.1: communicate information and ideas using digital text,

images, and sound can be used to show a student's understanding of a topic in a more active way
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compared to passively listening to a lecture and droning away taking a multiple-choice test.

Students will take their multiple sources and information and present them using PowerPoint,

Prezi, Whiteboard.fi, ect. Standard 3.A.12.2 also works to expand on traditional textbook

research and take it a step further by using digital tools to plan timelines, track progress, cite

sources, and organize information for research projects. Lastly, standard 3.D.12.2 allows

students to evaluate and justify the formats that they use for their research and reporting by

showcasing it to an audience using digital tools.

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Sample Lesson Plan

Name of lesson: Newscast an Era

Grade Level Appropriateness: Grade 12

Technology Content Standard Addressed: 2.A.12.1, 2.B.12.1, 3.A.12.2, 3.D.12.2

Other Content Standard Addressed: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.1, CCSS.ELA-

LITERACY.RH.11-12.7,

Objective: The student will understand how to use their computer and digital tools such as

PowerPoint, Loom, Prezi, Google Slides, etc. As a source for gathering, analyzing, and

showcasing their primary and secondary sources from textual evidence based on historical

events.

Materials needed to facilitate the lesson: Computer, laptop, mouse, keyboard, paper, pencils,

textbooks (online or hardcopy), PowerPoint, Prezi, Loom, iMovie, Ezvid, Google Slides,

Jamboard (for collaboration), Canva,

Suggested group size: 3-5 groups of 6

Procedures:

1. Students will be put into groups based on the time period that they want to research

further.

a. Prehistoric, Classical Era (Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, Persian Empire,

Byzantine Empire), Middle Ages (Medieval, Post-Classical, Dark Ages), Early

Modern Era (Renaissance, The Enlightenment), Modern Era (Industrial

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Revolution(s), Victorian Era, World War 1 or 2, Depression, Contemporary

Period)

2. Students will work together to determine which students will be news anchor, reporter,

weather person/meteorologist, sports caster, traffic reporter, event reporter (each job

relates to the time period they are researching)

a. Students will report to teacher to be approved of their job assignments

3. Students will then work together to determine which digital tools they will be using to

create short news stories. Students will also add graphics based on the time periods to

their news stories.

a. Students will report to teacher to be approved of their use of digital tools

4. Students will work in their groups and gather all information by searching the web using

Google, Bing, or Yahoo to gather information from credible sources.

a. Students will submit their sources and information to be approved by teacher

b. Each group will place all their digital work and sources into a shared server/folder

that can be easily accessed by students and teachers

5. Students will compile all resources and information onto their desired digital tool from

the servers and transform them onto a single digital tool that will be used for the

presentation

6. Students will them use their recording software of their choice to record themselves as if

they were newscasting.

a. The stories will be in one slide show with two anchors being recorded and the

graphics/images being displayed in the background.

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7. Students will investigate the “teleprompter” or second computer screen with the slide

show of the stories and read from there.

8. The camera will pan in and out as if a real newscast while it goes from the anchors to the

reporters and the other students reporting their stories.

Assessment: Each group of newscasters will make a Kahoot quiz based on the information that

they gathered in their newscast. They will have a minimum of 10 questions based on the

information that they researched, gathered, and put into their news cast that they presented to the

class. Teacher will review and accept the Kahoot quizzes before being assigned. Teacher will use

the student created Kahoots to grade class on their retention of knowledge. The newscast will be

graded as one part of the project. Each student will take a role and report one specific area to be

graded. Then the whole class will be tested on each specific newscast based on the Kahoot

scores.
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References

Lever-duffy J., & Mcdonald J. (2017). Teaching and Learning with Technology. [VitalSource

Bookshelf]. Retrieved from https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/#/books/9780134519906/