Rationale

Being a computer/science teacher, I believe that I am supposed to integrate

content into technology rather than integrating technology into the content. I focus
more on teaching students about technologies and integrate content material that
they are either currently doing or have already done in their grade level classrooms.
This is so that the content is familiar and my students can focus more on learning
the new technology rather than the focus all on the content of language arts, social
studies, math, or science.

So for my UbD, I chose my content to be about technology, technology

history. Learning about the history of technology falls under the language arts and
social studies standards. Then I have them use technology to display the information
that they have learned about.

While researching many things to do this year in my computer/science

classes, I came across the idea of teaching the history of technology to my students. I
did not get to implement it this year, but next year I really would like to do this
lesson and see how it goes. Edudemic (n.d.) said that, its important to understand
not only whats coming next (with technology) but also where it all started. As we
learn about the history of our country in social studies we should also be learning
the history of something that is so integral in todays everyday life, technology. Just
like every other subject it is important that we get our students involved and
interested in computer science. They could be the next computer scientist who
builds the next big web tool.

The way that I designed this lesson is for it to be student-led. I want students

to work together to use online resources to find out about the history of
technologies. I want students to discover all the different technologies that were
built throughout the years. I want students to see how things use to be done before
we had all the devices that we have today.

In the, my favorite theory assignment, I talked about how the experimental

theory and constructivist theory both really seemed to fit the style of my
computer/science classroom, students being responsible for their learning and
experimenting with things. According to (C. Rogers) student learning is facilitated
when,
1) student participates completely in the learning process and has control
over its nature and direction
2) primarily based upon direct confrontation with practical, social, personal
or research problems
3) self-evaluation is the principal method of assessing progress or success
4) an openness to change (pg. 1).

I think that I applied many of these things in my lesson. My lesson

encourages the students to be in control of their learning, take initiative to

collaborate and communicate what their learning with one another, self-evaluating
themselves and their peers as what to put on the final wiki, and having the openness
to change anything necessary respectfully.

According to the Blooms theory, my lesson will encourage students to such

things as researching and locating correct information, evaluating peers, analyze

information from websites and peers, process the information to share with others,
collaborate with peers and people in the community, identify key technologies
before the current time, and creating a wiki to communicate through and displaying
the history of technology. These are all things that help our students use higher-
level thinking skills and motivate them to enhance their student learning. The other
part of the lesson that I think will enhance the quality of this lesson is bringing in the
community to help students in learning about technologies from the very first
technology built to the most current technologies today. By having the community
access our class wiki to provide their knowledge on the subject just gives the
students another source and skills to collaborate and communicate with others
outside of school and around the community.