In looking for educational uses for the tech tool I explored last week (nasa.gov) I started with Youtube. I watched a Tech Watch video titled, "Nasa's Newtools: technologies effect on schools (Part3). It simply noted that the gaming and simulation used in on the nasa site has been proven to obtain higher results in learning. They noted that watching animation of a frog dissection in tandem with performing a frog dissection brought higher results. Technology and Cognition together bring higher quality of learning, and gives students ways to produce, be engaged, and thus be able to reflect on their own learning.
I then went to the ISTE site and found Nasa"s Robotic Clearing House: http://robitics.nasa.gov/rcc
This site maintains a link to lesson plans. Teachers can search the site by grade level and find full range courses or just a single lesson plan. These are good for math, physics, English and the arts. They focus on inspiring interest in STEM skills---science, math, technology and engineering.
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Nice exploration Virginia. I too tend to look at Youtube for examples on how to use a new technology.
ReplyDeleteWhat are the implications for your teaching when you consider the findings about gaming and simulations? Taking it back a step, do you trust those findings, why or why not?
You have a nice collection of resources from this work.
Ooo! Engineering lesson plans??? Those sound like fun! I'll go look some up! Thank you for sharing your findings!
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