ABC Community School
10/13/2021
Kalea Galletto
10/15/2021
Position Paper
Technology is a crucial part of the main goal when discussing education. The
rhetoric is always about preparing students for the future and if technology is stripped
away the students will be severely handicapped for the future.The ever-changing future
holds more technology than has ever been present. There is no slowing the
advancements we are making and the places they will likely hold in our society. In the
event of a district deciding to remove technology as a part of the curriculum I find that it
will also severely hamper the retention of the students and information.
In the year 2020 the importance of technology in the education field was heavily
highlighted because without it the stunting of student learning would have been far more
severe. Without technology present the inability to teach would have been a mess and
there would not have been a safe solution for all involved. If that alone is not enough for
technology importance to speak volumes then not much else is.It has become a valued
and core aspect in regards to the way we learn things. There is so much power in a
table and a student who has any type of question simply pulls out their phone or goes to
a computer and looks it up and has the answer in an instance. Removing technology
from the job squashes one's commitment to curiosity whereas the job is to nurture it. As
stated “The effective use of digital learning tools in classrooms can increase student
engagement, help teachers improve their lesson plans, and facilitate personalized
learning. It also helps students build essential 21st-century skills” (AU school of
education, 2020). The newly found means of creating an educational system meant to
be inclusive and allowing students to have consistent access to their education is an
absolute wonder. Reverting back to an almost if not already archaic system will do no
good for the well being of students or staff.
Identification of Standards
The goal of transforming learning through the means of technology is what the
ISTE standards are all about. Catering the level of technology to suit the grade level
and make a progressive movement through the level of understanding and involvement
of the technology. It's geared at preparing students overtime for their likely need to use
tech in everything they do. In a setting geared towards highschool students the focus of
the lesson plan is the Creative Communicator mostly. 1.6.a Students choose the
appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or
communication.1.6.bStudents create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix
digital resources into new creations.1.6.c Students communicate complex ideas clearly
and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations,
models or simulations.1.6.d Students publish or present content that customizes the
message and medium for their intended audiences. In the lesson plan the idea is to get
the students to introduce themselves to me in a manner that employs technology and a
wide range of options for them to express themselves. It will also include literature and
understanding of their favorite books in an attempt to tie in technology to the curriculum.
Specifically for my subject being english It is suited to be their favorite book and giving
them multiple tasks to achieve successful testing and trials at their level of computer
literacy. Utilizing a variety of tools to formulate a representation of themselves for me as
well as to share with their classmates through pictures, drawings, and whatever else
they may be able to think of. Tackling the different tasks needed to be met within the
classroom to show the level of understanding and grade the students accordingly while
also training them for the future usages.
Lesson Plan
Name of lesson:FavBook Profile
• Grade Level Appropriateness: Highschool
• Technology Content Standard Addressed: Creative Communicator: 1.6.a Students
choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their
creation or communication.1.6.bStudents create original works or responsibly repurpose
or remix digital resources into new creations.1.6.c Students communicate complex
ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as
visualizations, models or simulations.1.6.d Students publish or present content that
customizes the message and medium for their intended audiences.
• Other Content Standard Addressed:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3
Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations)
develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or
develop the theme.
• Objective: Utilizing technology and understanding of how a text can affect a character
students are to create an accurate representation of themselves in relation to their
favorite book and how they would fit into the natural world of the text. By designing a
moodboard to depict the story with collage software and then creating a short narrative
about how they fit into the story with actual text to back their descriptions, as well as a
drawing of the character if they so choose.
• Materials needed to facilitate the lesson: (List should include hardware, software, and
all other hands-on instructional materials needed) Canva, PowerPoint, Docs, Word, and
potentially a sheet of paper or a digital drawing.
• Suggested group size: Single Student
• Procedures:The students will be given access to their phone, ipads, laptops, or taken
to a computer lab. Once there they are to find 5-6 pictures that represent the plotline
and best points of their favorite book. Anywhere from the setting to a key point to how
the characters look in their imagination. Once the pictures are gathered they can use
them to make a collage using Canva or Powerpoint. They need to imagine themselves
into their favorite book in an entirely canon way, so using their knowledge from the book
or series they need to create a character or version of themselves. From there the next
step is to write a 1-2 page narrative about the story and how they exist in it. Using the
existing story and creating a new means of adding to it. The software to use to
accomplish that would be word or google docs and it is to be formatted in MLA, if they
don't know what MLA is they should be directed to OWL Perdue. In the event that they
feel capable they can create a drawing paper or digital of themselves in that universe.
Then after all the work is finished they are to present it to me and the class.
• Assessment:The assignment will be graded on participation and accuracy. They will
also get points for getting up and presenting themselves. It'll be an easy 15 point
assignment to start the year off
Student Sample
FavBook Profile
Book Title: The Unwind Dystology
MoodBoard:
Narrative: From the ages of 13 to 18 if you misbehave your parents can have you
shipped to the government to be retroactively harvested. The process is also known as
Unwinding. Harvesting means that all of your parts will be taken and given to those who
need it. You don't die, it's just the divided state, a split consciousness of muscle
memory. The three main characters Connor, Risa, and Lev are all set to be Unwound
for a variety of reasons. They range from parents to adoption homes to religion but the
common strand between them is they don’t want this to be their end. In a ragtag team
and a variety of different challenges they try to avoid their seemingly sealed fate. My
character can join them in their travels.
I am being unwound by my parents for calling them out on their favoritism towards my
other sibling and for acting out. It was truly minimal means of doing so but they resorted
to this without much hesitation. I meet up with Connor and Risa and we all travel and
traverse the countryside until eventually we find the safety we need to survive. Lev is
still MIA but we think we know where he wandered off to.
I would work on tactical planning and protection of the kids all at the graveyard,
ensuring that no one gets unwound anymore, just for the sake of protecting those I care
about. Sticking with the main characters in a merely supportive role, without much
interference towards them and not really changing much in the way of the story line
because I enjoy the way the books went to the highest extent. My end in the story would
likely be working towards changing the laws and rescuing as many unwinds as I can.
Picture: https://picrew.me/image_maker/1272810/complete?cd=XASBYbUylf
