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| Course: |
LA103 |
| Title: |
"Using Students' Career Interests to Motivate Reading: How do I use the Internet to design a reading unit that promotes inquiry learning?" |
| Author: |
Matthew Quirk
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| Course Fee: |
$150.00 |
| Credits: |
1 graduate credit available |
| Instructor: |
LTTS Facilitator |
| Abstract: |
Motivating struggling readers to improve their reading skills is a difficult task. This is true especially when these students have struggled for years and are losing sight of why reading is important to them. Teachers often find that the problem begins with reading, but also extends throughout the rest of the curriculum as other subject areas demand good reading skills. Getting these students interested in reading, and improving their reading skills can have a profound effect on the rest of their academic achievement and self-esteem. In this course, you will create an inquiry-based reading unit that taps into your students' personal interests, such as careers, and uses these interests to motivate them to become better readers. |
| Outcomes: |
After completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Develop an Interest Inventory to collect information about your
students in order to design an inquiry reading unit.
- Use student interests to support engagement and interest in
reading.
- Evaluate the quality of Web sites and other resources.
- Develop a unit designed to meet established learning goals.
- Align your lessons and unit to local, state and national curriculum
standards.
- Develop a lesson plan that incorporates technology as an information
source.
- Assess student process learning and products in technology-based
units.
- Design an Implementation Plan that best utilizes the technology
available to you at your school.
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| Timeline: |
You will have 12 weeks to complete this course. If you wish to complete the course after this period, you must re-enroll and pay any applicable enrollment fee. |
| Standards: |
This course will help teachers to meet ISTE NETS foundation standards 1, 2, 3, and 4 addressing:
- 1 - Technology Operations and Concepts
- 2 - Planning and Designing Learning Environments and Experiences
- 3 - Teaching, Learning, and the Curriculum
- 4 - Assessment and Evaluation
This course will help your students to meet ISTE NETS foundation standards 1, 2, 3 and 5 addressing:
- 1 - Basic Operations and Concepts
- 2 - Social, ethical, and human issues
- 3 - Technology Productivity Tools
- 5 - Technology research tools
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LTTS Contact
Information:
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ltts@indiana.edu |
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