Section 2: Theories and Models of Learning and Instruction

TEKS for Technology Applications

Grades 3-5

Learning goal: (8)C The student is expected to participate with electronic communities as a

learner, initiator, contributor, or mentor.

I would incorporate Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction by having students generate a blog in which they reflect on books they are reading throughout the year. These reflections are to be shared with their classmates in an online book club.

Gaining attention - Read a short picture book and allow students to discuss the book orally.

Informing the learner of the objective - State the objective and explain to students

what is expected. Make sure they understand what should be included in the blog

reflections.Post the learning objective in the classroom.

Stimulating recall of prior learning - Ask students to briefly reflect orally on their

favorite book.

Presenting the stimulus - Demonstrate to students via Jing presentation how to create a

blog using Blogger.com. Explain how they are to post reflections and follow other blogs.

Providing learning guidance - Provide an example of a blog that exhibits all of the

qualities to be included in the blog.

Eliciting performance - Students will generate a blog and reflect on their favorite book by

posting a written reflection in their blog.

Providing feedback - Instructor will comment in the blog offering feedback about the

initial posting.

Assessing performance - After students have posted a book reflection, instructor will

assess students' performance using a rubric with a 5 pt. scale that rates the following criteria:

participation, content, grammar, and creativity.

Enhancing retention and transfer - Students will work together to create a classroom

blog that gives information about classroom activities, upcoming events, favorite books,

assignments, etc.

Schema Theory - Since students in grades 3-5 have experience in reading books and reflecting on them in oral and written reports, this would be considered schemata. I would incorporate this schema into the lesson encouraging them to use what they already knew to develop new and more complex schemata through experience and learning in the form of electronic blogs.