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Technological Issues Lesson Plan

Stage 1 – Desired Results

Core Content Standard(s):

● High School Science - Physical Science Standard 1: Newton’s laws of motion and gravitation describe

the relationships among forces acting on and between objects, their masses, and changes in their motion

– but have limitations (Colorado Department of Education, 2009).

ISTE Standard(s):

● Digital Citizen

o Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working

in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical

(ISTE, 2018).

● Computational Thinker

o Students develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that

leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions (ISTE, 2018).

Unpacked Standard(s) (What are students Essential Questions:

expected to know and be able to do?): ● What should you do to deal with and who should

● Students should know who to contact and you contact for issues with technology?

what to do for different technical difficulties. Including issues with: Cyberbullying, security,

source credibility, device issues, connectivity

issues, inappropriate content, social media

distractions.

Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence Directly Aligned to Content Standard

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Pre-Assessment:

Pre-assessment will be when students create protocols for handling technological situations prior to reviewing

the flowchart.

Self- or Peer Assessments: Formative Assessments, Summative Assessments,

Peer assessment will be during group discussion etc.:

where groups are presenting the protocols they Formative assessment will be on Technology Tuesday

created, other students will have the ability to assess when real life technological concerns are addressed.

the protocol and add to if it they have additional

ideas.

Stage 3 – Learning Plan

Learning Activities (Include description of at-a-glance resource and how it will be used):

1. Students will break off into groups of 3 or 4 for the assignment. Each group will be given a technology

issue that they will have to solve. All issues will be highly possible and relevant to them and their

devices. See list of issues below. Each group will be given a list of technological issues and will be

tasked with creating a step by step protocol for dealing with each issue. Groups will discuss issues and

their protocol for 5-10 minutes depending on how much time they need.

a. For this assignment, students can pick groups by themselves. This way the groups will better

simulate the people they may actually be talking to about the issues that arise and therefore give

them practice in solving these types of issues.

2. After groups have had enough time to create their step by step protocols, the groups will share their

technological issue and protocol for one of the issues with the class. Students will have the opportunity

to share any additional ideas with the group.

3. After all groups have shared, we’ll review the Technology Flowchart together. Students will be asked

where the best location for the chart to be posted is, so that they have the access they need to it. They
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will also be asked if they would like a personal copy, or to create their own in a future lesson.

4. At the end of the lesson, the Technology Tuesday warm-up will be discussed. Going forward, the warm

up on Tuesdays will consist of students writing how they would handle a real life technology concern

that occurred that week. The situations will be those that were reported to me or from a student that

volunteers to share their issue that occurred.

Stage 4 – Feedback Strategies

Feedback Opportunities:

Feedback will be given throughout the student protocol presentations, especially if key concepts are missed

and/or are incorrect. Feedback will also be given for Technology Tuesday warm-ups.

Technological Issues

1. You realized your iPad is not charged enough for the day. What do you do?

2. Your friend tells you that someone is posting mean things about them on

Facebook. What do you do?

3. The app you are using freezes and will not restart. What do you do?

4. Your iPad doesn’t seem to have working internet. What do you do?

5. Someone has hacked your Schoology account and posted comments on your

behalf. What do you do?

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References

Colorado Department of Education. (2009/12/10). Science academic standards: High

school. Retrieved from http://www.cde.state.co.us/coscience/StateStandards.asp.

ISTE. (2018). ISTE standards for students. Retrieved from

http://www.iste.org/standards/for-students.