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Computers in the Classroom

Computers in the Classroom. LEIT 429x. How can computers be used?. Take about 5 min and list ways and situations where computers might be used in a classroom situation. CAI Types. Drill and Practice Tutorials Simulations Instructional Games. How do we do these now?. Major Characteristics.

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Computers in the Classroom

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  1. Computers in the Classroom LEIT 429x

  2. How can computers be used? • Take about 5 min and list ways and situations where computers might be used in a classroom situation.

  3. CAI Types • Drill and Practice • Tutorials • Simulations • Instructional Games How do we do these now?

  4. Major Characteristics • Interaction • Keep all students active and interacting with content • Flexibility • Can be used to teach virtually anything • Meeting Student Needs • Handle individual student pacing • Good for IEP’s

  5. Drill and Practice • Best known of all types of CAI • Doesn’t teach new material, but reviews previously covered stuff • Common uses • math • language arts • Paired Associate Tasks (PA) • Stimulus - Response Reinforcement

  6. Types of D&P • Flash Cards • Go through all cards regardless of entry skills or abilities • Arbitrary mastery criteria • Students must get some number in a row correct before they are moved to the next level • Adaptive • Assume mastery based on skill level of question

  7. D&P Controversies • Belief that PA learning is unnecessary • They are just electronic worksheets • Research suggests that it is no better than traditional approaches

  8. Tutorials • Designed to introduce and teach new material • The replacement for the teacher ?!

  9. Types of Tutorial • Linear • All students cover material in the same order regardless of performance differences • Branching • Employs pre and post testing to determine material to be covered and items for remediation

  10. Tutorial Controversies • Poorly written “electronic page turners” • Could they replace the teacher? • Use for review and makeup lessons • Business and industry uses them • Provides a different learning situation

  11. Simulations • An interactive version of some reality • Provide a cost effective, safe, practical way to learn and explore

  12. Types of Simulation • Physical Simulations • Students use, or learn about an object and the things that make it tick • Procedural Simulations • Used to teach a sequence of actions that constitutes a procedure • A flight simulator

  13. Types of Simulations • Situational Simulation • Role playing • Process Simulation • Students act as an experimenter rather than an active participant in the process • Genetics and economics projects lend themselves to this type.

  14. Simulation controversy • Provide safe, cost effective ways for students to learn • Sometimes difficult to measure learning outcomes • Content accuracy and validity are VERY important

  15. Instructional Games • Can be used in several situations • game attempts to teach/review material • game is a reward for correctly completing some other type of CAI • distinction is that reward games may have no relationship to content area • All have winners, losers and fun

  16. Types of Games • Variation of an existing game • new version of hangman, football, monopoly • New game

  17. IG Controversy • Does the time spent justify the game

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