Group Members: Jamie Schaller, Kelsey Dziedzic, Evan Dougherty, Erin Ledford
Lesson Plan
Critical Information Literacy Lesson Plan | |
File Size: | 36 kb |
File Type: | docx |
Reflection
In order to improve our lesson plan, we tried to create a lesson that met the needs of our on-grade-level learners, our accelerated learners, and our struggling learners. We first began with a basic shell of the lesson, focusing on the objectives as a guide. This lesson is ideal for helping students begin to understand and question the credibility of websites.
Reflecting on the lesson, proves that there are some shortcomings with the lesson plan. As the years progress, there will be more relevant information, and better examples of credible sites. Students might also struggle with relating to the information, especially if they are not athletic or if they have no connection to the information researched. In order to provide students with an interest in the project, they could be able to choose their own topics, and decide if the site meets the web evaluation tool created. In addition, this could have been a two day lesson, where students evaluated credible websites informally with teacher supervision the first day, and the second day students could independently research topics of interest and use the web evaluation tool.
In order to include this lesson into other curricula, meeting a variety of grade levels, this lesson could be adapted. To make this lesson accessible for younger students, such as fourth or fifth grade, teachers could change the content, as well as only give students one website to evaluate. In the beginning of the lesson, the teacher would review a modified version of the web evaluation tool, and review it with students, using it as a website is viewed as a class. Students would then work as a group to determine a different website, posting their review on Padlet. To make this lesson accessible for older students, such as ninth or tenth grade, teachers could have students use a more advanced version of the web evaluation tool. At the beginning of the year, teachers would introduce the tool and have students practice using it. When students are completing a research paper throughout the year, as part of a requirement, they would have to use the web evaluation tool in order to critique the sites used in their papers.
Reflecting on the lesson, proves that there are some shortcomings with the lesson plan. As the years progress, there will be more relevant information, and better examples of credible sites. Students might also struggle with relating to the information, especially if they are not athletic or if they have no connection to the information researched. In order to provide students with an interest in the project, they could be able to choose their own topics, and decide if the site meets the web evaluation tool created. In addition, this could have been a two day lesson, where students evaluated credible websites informally with teacher supervision the first day, and the second day students could independently research topics of interest and use the web evaluation tool.
In order to include this lesson into other curricula, meeting a variety of grade levels, this lesson could be adapted. To make this lesson accessible for younger students, such as fourth or fifth grade, teachers could change the content, as well as only give students one website to evaluate. In the beginning of the lesson, the teacher would review a modified version of the web evaluation tool, and review it with students, using it as a website is viewed as a class. Students would then work as a group to determine a different website, posting their review on Padlet. To make this lesson accessible for older students, such as ninth or tenth grade, teachers could have students use a more advanced version of the web evaluation tool. At the beginning of the year, teachers would introduce the tool and have students practice using it. When students are completing a research paper throughout the year, as part of a requirement, they would have to use the web evaluation tool in order to critique the sites used in their papers.