{"id":5917,"date":"2018-04-02T14:13:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T21:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/?p=5917"},"modified":"2018-04-02T14:13:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T21:13:59","slug":"5917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/2018\/04\/02\/5917\/","title":{"rendered":"SKI\/WISE and Primary Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

On The Task of Modifying an Existing WISE Lesson to Share During Module B…<\/strong><\/h4>\n

I was unable to contribute this post within the course deadline for discourse. \u00a0I found this particular portion of Module B overwhelming in terms of the amount of readings and questions that we were asked to engage with. \u00a0This, coupled with several compounding crisis in my personal life, severely limited my ability to interact with my peers during the rest of Module B and the beginning of Module C. \u00a0Where WISE in particular is concerned, I did not truly understand what WISE was until engaging with Kari and David’s comments from the TELE Synthesis Forum (B4.2, see Take Aways under the Home tab for these comments). \u00a0It wasn’t until then that I saw that WISE was not a learning framework in and of itself but was actually a technology-enhanced design tool (a technology scaffold, if you will) allowing teachers to create guided-inquiry lessons for students using web- or tech-based tools, or better yet allowing\u00a0actual, specific\u00a0kinds of inquiry learning frameworks to guide their lesson designs.<\/p>\n

When previewing the WISE “What Makes a Good Cancer Medicine” lesson I enjoyed how they jumped right into sequencing which types of cells experienced mitosis the fastest without any pre-teaching about them, requiring students to use their prior knowledge without help. Then the feedback for incorrect answers gave hints on how to access more specific schema but didn\u2019t tell the answers. Very rewarding and I learned things I didn\u2019t know already! \u00a0And\u00a0then the prediction part didn’t\u00a0give me immediate feedback and I knew that I didn’t\u00a0know whether my answers were\u00a0correct so I was\u00a0actively looking in the next sections to see if I could\u00a0find the answers, kind of like a game or a quest. This really increased my motivation to search and keep reading. \u00a0At the conclusion of the lesson, however, I still feel like I hadn’t found the feedback I needed to know to identify the correct answers and I was disappointed that the project hadn’t fulfilled the expectations for my understanding that it had set me up for.<\/p>\n

When this lesson’s task asked us to modify a WISE project for our contexts I found this extremely difficult because I am not a STEM teacher and am mostly a primary (1-3) grade teacher, for which WISE offers no projects (when grade filters are engaged in their Project Library). \u00a0I explored a few projects, such as the middle school Music one, but found it too large a task to modify for my Grade 3 music students because it was so focused on the Science and I only teach the Music component to them, sound is not in their Science curriculum for several more years. \u00a0My favourite WISE project was one of the iterations of “Graphs Tell a Story”. \u00a0There, I found lessons that followed a logical sequence and allowed me, as the student, to truly understand how a graph could be used to tell a motion story. \u00a0I really enjoyed working with the swimming animation to chart the graph and then see if I was right based on whether the animation moved properly. \u00a0Again, however, I was at a loss about how to modify this project in any meaningful way. \u00a0For these reasons I felt unable to share anything of substance that adequately met the requirements of this module’s lesson.<\/p>\n

If I had understood then what I did later after Kari’s synthesis post, perhaps things would have been different, but actually I might not have been able to attempt this lesson creation yet anyway because I had not experienced the most significant TELE for me, TGEM. \u00a0In my opinion, I would have liked to have had it explicitly explained that WISE was a framework\u00a0program<\/em>, and have this separated from the very heavy use of theory explaining SKI and the admirable creation and maintenance of the WISE Project Library. \u00a0Then, I would wish WISE to be the last lesson in this module so that I could have attempted to create a new project using WISE and incorporating elements of Anchored Instruction\/Place-Based LfU, GEM cycles, and SKI all within a WISE project “learning portal” so to speak. \u00a0Although I acknowledge the bias of hindsight, I feel that those changes in instructional delivery would have allowed me to feel less overwhelmed and to be more successful in reaching this module’s learning goals.<\/p>\n

I really appreciate this ePortfolio assignment because it allowed me to go back and revisit these topics which I had found confusing and finally make the connections I need to feel like I have a solid understanding. \u00a0If I had to choose a WISE project to modify, I would have chosen the “Graphs Tell a Story” and worked to modify the content to be primary-student-friendly as they worked in a unit on reading, designing and interpreting line graphs. Alternatively, using the WISE TELE to revitalize\u00a0Jasper’s relevance in today\u2019s technology would be an excellent application of this tool. \u00a0For example, the Rescue At Boone\u2019s Meadow could be run using appropriate SKI patterns with ease.<\/p>\n

Now I see that a WISE project is a powerful tool indeed, particularly for STEM teachers, but also for non-STEM teachers desiring to create model-based reasoning with inquiry patterns in a technology enhanced environment for literate students. \u00a0I am not certain primary aged students or those who struggle with reading would be able to find success within a WISE project, but for those who read and are relatively competent in self-direction, learning through WISE seems ideal in many ways. \u00a0Lack of technology continues to be a constraint, as does time to create or revise a project to meet unique contexts, but if a ready-made project which made it to the Project Library fit a class’ needs this would be a wonderful learning tool which could be co-taught in the homeroom\/rotary classroom as well as the Library.<\/p>\n

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