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Topic: Instructional Design: Promoting Active Learning Using Technology

Population: Business Educators

Outcomes:
 * The learner will define technology.
 * The learner will construct a budgeting lesson that teaches real world budgeting techniques and presents a real world budgeting scenario.
 * The learner will create a personal tech toolbox.
 * The learner will further define effective uses of technology for a specific budgeting lesson.
 * The learner will apply budgeting concepts to lesson generated by the facilitator.
 * The learner will take original lesson and incorporated some technologies from personal tech toolbox.
 * The learner will redesign lesson to include effective tech tools.
 * The learner will create activities that correspond with the lesson.
 * The learner will build a rubric to assess each technology based activity.
 * The learner will present lesson using technology of choice.

Gap: The participants already know how to construct a lesson plan. They understand the needs of their learners and they can create a multifaceted lesson to meet the needs of diverse learners. I want them to be able to take those exemplary lessons and attach effective technologies to them to illuminate the curriculum and improve the critical thinking skills of each learner. The gap is the use of effective technologies when designing an exemplary lesson to reach the below target, on target, and above target learner.

How will you include Mayer’s principle of active processing in your authentic assessment activity? The participants will be critiquing, modifying, and redesigning a lesson to the specifications of stated objectives.
 * Module 2 Questions**

What kind of product will your participants create to demonstrate their learning using multimedia technology? The participants will create a technology rich lesson plan that promotes active engagement in students. The focus of the lesson will not be the technology itself, but the facilitation of the content through the use of technology that allows the students to play an active role in learning.

What kind of multimedia presentation must you create to effectively present key concepts and skills to your participants (video, PowerPoint, podcast, screencast, interactive tutorial, or other)? I plan to use Power Point to create an interactive tutorial.

How will you include Mayer’s principles of dual coding and limited capacity in your presentation? Material will be presented each objective at a time or in small chunks. Reflection time will allowed for thought processing and recording of ideas or strategies gleaned from clips, discussions, lesson plan development, and brain storming.

What kind of graphic organizer would be best to give your participants to help facilitate learning in your workshop? Visual organizer with text and some type of color and/or diagrams would best serve my participants to help guide the flow of the topics covered.

What concepts in your presentation will require pre-training before you begin the workshop? The concept of pairing technology with specific activities in a lesson to illuminate the content and promote active engagement will require some pre-training.

How will you use multimedia to engage your learners during the pre-training phase? I am going to show them a clip of a lesson that used effective technology and demonstrate authentic student engagement. I will provide a think pad for the participant to write down any thoughts generated while watching the clip or anything that caught their eye, spark their interest, or even raised questions while viewing.

What equipment will you need to conduct your workshop (projector, laptops for each pair of participants, Internet connections, other)? I will need a data projector, laptop, and an Internet connection to conduct the hands part of the workshop.

What online applications might you use? I may use Google Docs, YouTube, Wiki, Blog, RCampus, online mortgage calculator ([]), online car loan estimator ([]), online site for estimating the cost of raising a family ([] or []), and online site for income estimator based on chosen occupation ([]), and online credit scoring sheet for students ([]).

How will your participants collaborate on their projects? The participants will use face to face collaboration. Since the workshop is not virtual, it seems more productive to allow face to face feedback and exchange of ideas and technology knowledge. How will you group them to create authentic assessment in your workshop? All participants are business educators. The will be grouped by random number on badges.