1) YOUR CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING: My conceptual understanding or literacy has changed since the beginning of the class. Before class I thought literacy had to do with reading and writing. In my blog I posted that literacy “has traditionally been described as the ability to read and write,” (Wikipedia) but now I know that it is so much more than that. It is to have enough knowledge on a subject, such as enviornmental literacy, emotional literacy, social, cultural, and many more. To know enough about it to understand the concept and relate it to you life or in a conversation.
My research of enviornmental literacy helped me to have a broader knowledge about the topic. The digital literacy I chose to use, Prezi, helped me to look more tech-savy, create an organized and fun presentation, and hold all of my groups’ information on a source that is available to many, and easy to access. Now I know how to use a newer technological device that is easier for viewers and more entertaining, and I can revert back to it any time I need to review enviornmental litearcy. I can also share it with my students, as my group decided to make our presentation professional for our peers, and also easy for our future elementary school students to navigate through and view.
My new knowledge on the literacy would be a broader understanding of water. I have listed what it is, chose the topic of water to elaborate, gave visual aids, and ways to conserve. It is a well rounded presentation on the enviornmental literacy of water. Thanks to this presentation, I know understand enviornmental literacy more thoroughly, can relate it to a topic, (I chose water in this particular case) and I am able to present it on a new and fun technological device!
This enviornmental literacy term makes more sense now that I have done the research and presentation on it. I used to beleive that literacy was simply the knowledge to read and write, but literacy is such a bigger and broader topic than that. It is to be knowledgable in a larger area and more specific field.
2) EFFECTIVE LITERACY INSTRUCTION:
To me, the term “Effective literacy instruction” means that a teacher delivers a presentation that is authentic, meaningful, and thorough on a topic. The diverse learners are all able to understand and comprehend, their are resources to revert to if they are confused, and the learners are able to have a conversation about the topic and explain it to someone else. If the learner can thoroughly explain the topic to a peer, I would have to say that they understood. The teacher’s job in order to give an effective literacy instruction would to have a well rounded and thorough presentation on the subject, a presentation that is eye catching and entertaining/interesting to the learners, and also assesses the students appropriately.
My new research on enviornmental literacy and the prezi I chose to present it in made me a little bit more aware on new resources I can use to bring into the classroom. I think my future students will enjoy the prezi more than a boring powerpoint presentation. It also helped me to navigate and organize my information on enviornmental literacy in a wonderful manner so that I can refer back to it at any point in time.
My presentation is useful to me because it is easy and organized and I believe that my peers can navigate it, and it can also be used in the classroom to present to elementary students. I would probably change some of the wording to make it more basic and understandable, but the concept and the prezi are authentic to all ages.
3) LESSON PLAN:
A lesson plan that I feel is fitting to my presentation on enviornmental literacy would be to actually give the presentation on the prezi to a classroom. (5th Graders) Before I present it, I would discuss enviornmental literacy, and some examples of it. I would let them know that I will be having them make a presentation on prezi just like mine, and that their topic can be whatever they chose, as long as it has to do with enviornmental literacy. From there I would show my powerpoint as an example on my enviornmental literacy topic, water, more in depth.
They would need to be fifth graders because I do not think that I would give a prezi presentation to younger elementary students. I would probably find a better way to introduce information to them that is able to keep their attention, where 5th graders are aware of powerpoints, and the Prezi which seems to be a more advanced powerpoint would keep them entertained and their attention.
My objectives would be for my 5th grade class to understand the concept of enviornmental literacy, understand simple concepts of water usage, conservation, and the sources we get it from. I want them to be aware of how much we waste this resource.
After the presentation I would have them take their own topic from environmental literacy. I chose water, so they would have to chose another topic, such as the water cycle, or landforms, etc. Anything that they want to do more research on and present! This would be a bigger project rather than a small assessment at the end of my presentation because I also want them to learn how to use Prezi. I would have them match up with one partner after my prezi presentation to discuss what aspect of environmental literacy they want to explain more in depth and then go to the computer lab to play around with the Prezi Program. For the next three days I would have them in the computer labs researching on the their topic. The first two days they are to research on the topic, and the last day they are to put it all together in a prezi power point. The fourth day they will present to the class their presentation.
Materials needed: a partner, notes for research, and the computer lab. (This would have to be at a school that can supply computer labs. If not, I would alter it to checking out books in the library on their topic)
My objectives: To be able to use a new technological resource, such as prezi, and explain an enviornmental topic thoroughly to the class.
The closing summary would be after all the presentations were given. I would have them write a review on one of the presentations. 1. Something new you learned. 2. What you thought of the presentation. 3. What you didn’t understand. 4. Compliment on it.
My assessment is the presentation, and their responses to one anothers’ presentations.
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