Submissions:2015/Lesson Plans for web-based projects

Title

Let's use Wikipedia in the classroom!

Theme

Education

Type of submission

Workshop

Author

Rachel Bracker

E-mail address

rachel@rachelbracker.com

Username

rpbracker

Affiliation

USC

Abstract

How can educators prepare lesson plans that integrate online resources?

The first half of this workshop will be highly discussion-based, examining some relevant lesson plans. These will be posted a few days before the conference. Current students and teachers should find this interesting, as it will be a great way for people to share opinions on this topic.

-Subjects to use this for

-What resources do you need/want? (School computers, laptops, iPads, speed of WiFi, etc)

-How should students work? (Groups, partners, etc)

-Types of materials can teachers prepare to guide students

-Projects, quizzes and tests that can be used to track progress

-Teacher responsibility to keep students "on track"

-How to keep consistent pacing

During the second half, we'll create (or adapt) a lesson plan based on our discussion. This is primarily directed at educators, but anyone who teaches or trains people might be interested in seeing ways to do this. I will post some templates you can use, though attendees should feel free to bring old lesson plans that they adapt to include online-based curricula.

Who is Rachel Bracker? I'm an undergraduate senior helping a research project that entails teaching critical media studies to high schoolers at a project-based school in the LAUSD. I have lead student workshops on journalism on and off for about 10 years, working as an editor for my school papers since the 8th grade, and taking that work way too seriously. I'm also trained to teach English as a Foreign Language. I grew up on the internet, often ignoring traditional resources in favor of websites like Wikipedia or blogs written by academics and journalists. Despite my disdain for printed textbooks, I've done pretty well in school. I also work part-time in University Media Relations.

Length of presentation

60 min

Special schedule requests

Afternoon preferred

Will you attend WikiConference USA if your submission is not accepted?

Depending on funding from university

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