Rock’n’Rollin’ in the ’50s Vicki Wells Holtville High School 5/30/02 Teaching With Technology

My Lesson and Myself Students “experience” the popular culture of the 1950s through research of TV, Cars, Music, and Fashion I am the U.S. History teacher at Holtville High School

My Expectations To be able to integrate more technology into my lessons To help students learn more technology To get students motivated through use of technology

Actual Learning Daily use of the LCD projector Hotlists help, but students are very resourceful. More practice with Standards-based learning

Successes Students motivated to research topics b/c of technology I achieved my goal of integrating technology Covered the standard in a short amount of time

Shortcomings Group roles not well- defined Some students may have been off task while teacher is trouble- shooting technology problems Assessment not sophisticated

Student Data

Work Samples

Lesson Revisions Teacher selects the groups of four for home groups, they each choose area of expertise (TV, Cars, Music, Fashion) for expert groups Make expert group roles more defined (researcher, artist, vocabulary, etc.)

Summary Technology made this lesson come alive for the students Students were able to use the LCD projector to share whole websites (the ’50s are particularly rich) The cooperative groups can be structured by the teacher to facilitate more learning Start with the assessment!

I’m stretching, technology-wise