Lesson Plan Supplemental Materials

This lesson plan will touch on the cognition and general knowledge of science. The life cycle of a butterfly to be more specific. In this lesson the children will become familiar with and explore the stages of the life cycle. The will be able to identify what the order is by recall, repetition and  then recognition by being engaged with the different materials, books and technology provided. Below you will find a few examples.



This is a very short Prezi of the life cycle of a butterfly, one of the technology choices for my lesson plan. The purpose is to allow the children something very simple to operate on the class tablet that is easy to use and educational. This will give them a preview of what the class Prezi will look and fell like once it is complete at the end of the lesson plan week as the final project. This Prezi can really be used for multiple things not only as an activity, but also as a teaching tool and as an assessment with preschool children. I also though about creating a "Butterfly Match game", where the children would demonstrate sorting identification, and hand eye coordination skills by tapping all red butterflies, then blue and green and so forth and so on. I am just not that skilled in the game developing area. I was able to create a butterfly sliding puzzle game. I just could not find the embed code, but I put the link below if you want to check it out. I think it is really cool.
https://www.proprofs.com/games/puzzle/sliding/butterfly-28/#

"My Technology Lesson Plan"

Ed Tech ECDE Activity Plan by Kyedeana Mosley on Scribd

Reflective Wrap-Up

I am a program coordinator at the center that I work at, so I am not really in one room or another, I am in all six of the classroom daily though. I can tell you that as part of the administration team we have made sure each classroom has some sort of technology incorporated onto the daily program. The school age children have three computers and two tablets. All three preschool rooms and both infant/toddler rooms have one computer and two tablets. One of my biggest concerns are that the staff just allow the children to have too much meaningless screen time. Another concern is that children are not always monitored as they should be. I don't want to take the technology away, so I have planned a staff meeting to discuss proper usage. Too much technology in the classroom can lead to lower scores on classroom environmental rating scales and I just want the staff to be aware of this. I love that the children have the exposure, but sometimes it can be misused. I plan to have them limit the use to absolutely no movies, show, cartoon or anything non-educational even if it goes alone with there interest or theme. I have hopes of them limiting technology usage to an average of an hour per school day. Available for use during open center times. Maybe a little more for school age due to them actually using theirs from mostly educational purposes already and it being so many of the in the room. One hour would not serve as enough time for 20-30 children unless grouped together to work.

Within that time frame of use we might encounter some technical errors like low memory, servers going down, systems overheating or fried motherboard. All of these issue can bring the technology to a complete halt. When these types of problem occur teachers usually move on to another activity until the repairs are made. These kinds of errors mostly affects the school age group of children and the staff.  For most of the time they are working on something "big and juicy" as they call it. The preschool and under don't really care about having to do other activities, in fact I think that most of the time they would rather. I do not believe that the children in our program will have many struggles with technology if any at all. I think they are born knowing how to work a cell phone and tablet these days. But seriously I see them come in the the childcare center younger and younger using their parents devices. As far as kik, snapchat, facebook and any other type of social media, it is not allowed nor encouraged with any of the age groups that we serve. In fact we had to do a no personal tablet and cellphone rule due to a picture being taken with a phone of one class mate and another posting it  on some social media website. Even though it was nothing more then the child not wanting the picture posted because she did not like the face she was making, it became an issue brought to my attention by her parents, so we had to end that.

Every year at the end of the summer the school age children put on this huge talent show to showcase some of what they have been working on. They dance, sing, role play and conduct, but never get to see how they did due to them actually being the ones to perform. This year I am going to assign them my ipad to allow the to record, review and watch how great they are and then at the end of the making of it all I plan on putting together a slide show type of presentation and play it in the white board for their parent to see as they wait for the show to begin. They can even watch it at the end of the show as well. I also will be able to send it to each family if they are interested, after getting consent to video/photograph forms signed by each family of coarse. I am defiantly not a digital native. This is all new to me. I have been doing a little more since taking this class. I plan to continue to embark on this technological journey with the help of my three teen aged children. They are really patient with me and are willing to show me the tech tricks that they know and are learning from school or friends. Its so funny though, because I can remember when we had one up on our parents back in the day with the whole star sixty-nine thing. Its crazy to see how this newer generation has surpassed us so greatly as we scramble to catch up, well me anyway. I find that nothing frustrates me nor excite me about technology. I still remain neutral to to it and as long as I have somebody there to show me the way, I am not worried at all.

 Till next time
Kye Mosley

Classroom Design

Ms. Kye's Preschool Class 

I have based my classroom design on the fact that in my world I would have no more than twelve students at a time. If we were doing a large group activity then each student would have a seat at one of the student table and I could be at the kidney table instructing. I would be able to have a child or two come up to my table and work on giving them any extra support. As I conduct my morning large group activities we would meet on the carpet where the three beanbags and the projector is so that if I need to use the white board the space is suitable for all to see no matter where they chose to sit. Children in my class would be able to use the this area throughout the day to read, sing and dance as well as get an Ipad off the shelf to work on. In fact there would be an Ipad for each child and myself on the shelf closet to that area. Each child would have their name on their class Ipad and on their Ipad I would install educational apps such as "ABC Mouse" and "ABC Trace it" and other apps where I can track what they do and learn. During open center time the student would be able to choose any area within the room to work in small groups, with one peer or alone. 

I chose not to incorporate a couch into my design because I learned the hard way that a couch sends two messages to this age group, one being jumping fun and the other nap time and I do not want to subconsciously promote either. Another thing I chose not to use in my classroom is a TV. I just feel that with all the other technology in the room a TV is useless. We can watch anything on the projector, computer or Ipads. Besides when I had a TV in my real classroom the children would always ask if they could watch "Bubble Guppies, Paw Patrol or Frozen" and when told we did not have those shows and movies and they could watch them at home, they became upset. But for whatever reason they never ask to watch those thing on the projector on white board. 

I added a music supply storage cabinet because I love music and want the children to have access to many types of music during the year. In this cabinet there will be props such as ribbons and scarves for dancing, article clothing from different cultures as well as instruments for a variety of style. We can look up and play videos of different cultures dancing and playing their native music. I do this in my real class and the children are anxious to see what I will play each week.     

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Tech Tool Review

Pinterest in the Classroom

I learned something new with this PINTEREST this week. I never used the site before and found that I have been missing out BIG time. This site is the bee's knees and I can't stop my from it. Every chance I get I am on the site. There is so many ideas that I am having a hard time deciding which ones to do.
As a teacher I have borrowed a handful of ideas for our up and coming parent/teacher conferences. The parents are going to be pleased and my teaching team and administrator are going to be blown away. I don't actually conduct conferences this round, but it is my job to coordinate them and thanks to Pinterest; I'm about to knock it out the park. Check out my boards to get a picture of what I am talking about.
Some major strengths of this site is that it reaches a wide range of topics. There is literally something for everybody, every hobby, every genre that you can think of. I'm not sure sure why I always thought of it as a place people shared their lonely like project. I couldn't  have been more wrong. As for challenges, I only came across one and probably just need to spend a little more time on it to figure it out. I could not figure out how to move curtain pins from one board to another. It would have been very helpful for me if I knew how, so forgive me if you find duplicate pins in my boards. I am a first time user.
Over all my experience with Printerest was a great one that I will continue to use from here on out as well as encourage other to use it. This has been my most favorite assignments yet.
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"Khan/Koller Review"

The Khan Academy at first was too much to take in at first. I was not expecting to go through the whole process of creating a avatar and all that just to visit the site. I mean, let me see if I'm interested in whats being offered first. I was just a little annoyed. I had to take a deep breath and start with a fresh view. I had to look at it as if I were a parent looking for a tool or site to help my child. Or as if I was looking for some additional self motivating help. After being on the site for a while it just seemed like too much information, but the videos and mini quizzes were really good. I found myself going through the whole subject of patterns and calling my son in to share the one video with him. I could and would encourage my student to use this web site with a specific subject in mind.My son said he was going to add it to his favorite folder to refer to later.   The videos are very easy to follow and engage in. I love how after every other video you get a quiz to test your knowledge or recap the subject information.  I do believe in Khans vision/theory of credentialing by use of technology and it is more assessable to students and parent to be more hands on and interactive with their child's education. All in all this is a web site that I give two thumbs up and is now on my list or recommendations. (👍 👍  for Khan)

Visiting the Coursera website I found that it was easy to move about and matriculate throughout the site. The homepage is clear a made for any and all types of users. Having the names of the colleges could be nothing more than a plus. That caught my daughters eye foe a quick second. She saw Stanford and almost broke here neck. Sadly none of the courses offered caught my eye; moreover, none about the site called any real interest to me. I am not that kind of learner. Online courses are hard for me, because I am more of an interactive learner and tend to shy away from doing to much of anything online. This semester I have really bit off more than I can chew by taking three online courses. Yikes! I feel like if I was taking only online courses I would be no good at retaining anything no matter how hard I tried. I started this assignment late, so I was unable to dig deep enough to see if Columbus State accepted Coursera credentials. I would say yes though be cause I had a CDA credential that transferred over into college credits here at Columbus State. I did find something from 2013 about Coursera contacting Columbus State trying to address concerns about incorrect placements English and Math classes. That leads me to further believe that this is true. The courses do not seem to be more challenging, they just don't seem to be for me and how I learn, but don't let me make your mind up. Please give them a honest review for your self. I do think that this might be the new wave in education, I'm just glad I am out in front of it before it completely takes over. (👍 👎 mixed feeling about this one)

Exploring Standard-Based Lesson Plans

The age/grade level lesson plan that I have chosen to use is for the preschool group (3-5 year old). I chose this age group, because I find myself always retuning to a preschool classroom when I drift off into other journeys. Although I am wanting to be more of an administrative role in a early childcare, preschool is the age group I love most. Looking around online for sample plans that connected the OELD standards was a challenge, so I decide to take the advise of my professor and use one of the lesson plans from Columbus States own Early Childhood Development and Education program. In this lesson the plans focus is on a read aloud Mama Cat Has Three Kittens (Literacy). The children are expected by the end of the lesson to be able to to predict what happens next and be able to name and sequence events within the story.

This lesson plan does not require the use of the Common Cores, instead for this age group the Ohio Early Learning and Development Standards are used, OELD for short. The area or domain I guessed right from the beginning after reading the name of the activity/area of interest and found out after reading the plan in it's entirety that I was correct in my guessing that the plan fell under the domain of Language and Literacy Development. The strand used was reading and the topics reading comprehension and print concept. Being a little familiar with the OELD Standards and the preschool age group, I recognized that all parts of the chosen lesson plan addresses the domain selected by the creator. The part that stood out most to me was open-ended questions and scaffolding comments. One could really see the standards at work here.

If I were to adopt this plan and implement it to a group of children I would start by putting the book, a large cat and three small kittens on a table near where I would sit. I would encourage the children to explore what they see as I take notes. I would then ask if they wanted to hear the story book to find out what happens to the kittens. As i read I would stop to key in on the part that is going to be repeated and ask the children to say the part with me as I go on. I would then carry on much like the creator stopping every now and then to have the children predict what is going to happen next. 

I would not anticipate any problems other then the children complaining that they cannot see the book and in this case I would adjust the book so that everyone can see, or give a nod to a co-worker to adjust the children in the area as I continue to read. As for other challenges, I would be kind of concerned about them not really grasping the standard of the print concept, so I would include some writing at the end. I would ask the group what they though would happen if we continued the story and write it down as they talk, then later have then draw pictures of what they said or write some of the words which ever would be more developmentally appropriate for each of them.  By the end on the day we would have our own class book with there words, pictures and print.

For more information about where I obtained my sample lesson plan please visit the link below

https://courses.cscc.edu/webapps/blackboard/content/listContent.jsp?course_id=_56634_1&content_id=_6037950_1

Assistive Technology for students with Speech and Language Impairment

The IDEA disability speech and language impairment is defined as a communication disorder that adversely affects the child's ability to talk, understand, read and write. IDEA actually divides these up into two groups, which I always thought of them to be one in the same, but they separate them as speech impairment and language impairment. Speech Impairment is the broken down into there categories:  Omissions, Substitutions and Distortions and Language Impairment is then broken down into five categories: Phonological disorder, Morphological disorder, Semantics disorder, Syntactical deficits and Pragmatic difficulties. Student with speech and language impairment might struggle in a general classroom setting, not being able to articulate there wants and needs within the group. These students may become frustrated when their teachers and peers are unable to understand them, sometimes this can lead to behavior issues. If a child's speech and/or language is off it can affect their reading and writing skills as well and cause lower grades or scores. These student are also likely to misread or understand social cues making if difficult to join or stay engaged in a conversation with peers.

There are so many assistive technology devices and apps for families and schools to choose from. I like "My Talk Tools". It is and app that you can download onto a tablet, dest top, cell phone or even an iwatch. I like it because you do not have to purchase any special device, just use what most people have already in their homes. My Talk Tools have several different apps. the most basic one is free of charge, bit the more a person advances the heavier the price becomes ranging from $99. up to $179. This app is not just for those with speech and language impairment, but also for those identified with Downs, Cerebral Palsy, Autism, Hearing or Visual impairments. Visit Mytalktools.com for more information. https://www.mytalktools.com/dnn/2/Home.aspx





My Talk has features such as, video modeling, switch capable, language generation and scanning. You can program the child's name into the app and select a voice as well when you set up the app you can let the system know if the child is male or female. With all the research I have done, I have come across the warning of too much screen time, so with that being said limit time use on any device that you choose to download the app on.

The future of assistive technology is growing and I believe that smart phones and other devices are making life of everyone better and easier. A person would just have to take the time to learn all the systems and the ends and outs of the technology world. I'm trying to be more technically inclined by taking courses like this education technology course at CSCC. I know its just a start, but it took me a few years to learn my idevices.

Methods for AAC can be divided into three levels of technology complexity.

No-tech methods [PDF] include signing, using pictures and objects without voice output, facial and body language, and eye gaze.

Low-tech/medium-tech methods [PDF] include devices with voice output, but only one choice or one page recorded on them.

Higher-tech methods/devices [PDF] are capable of using a number of pages and a larger vocabulary can be stored. The highest-tech devices are like computers, allowing for the greatest number of options.

References 

http://www.parentcenterhub.org/repository/categories/


http://www.readingrockets.org/article/helping-children-communication-disorders-schools

http://www.mytalktools.com/dnn/2/Home.aspxhttps://www.speechandlanguagekids.com/slp-apps-technology/

https://www.mytalktools.com/dnn/2/Home.aspx

Ohio DL Schools

Connections Academy

http://virtualschoolhouse.org/

ECOT

Ohio Virtual Academy

Virtual Community School of Ohio

After looking at each of the above options for online schooling in Ohio, here's how they stack up in my opinion on a scale from 1-10:

                                           Clarity                 Understanding               Look                       Feel  

Connections Academy	8	8	8	7
Virtual School House	4	4	4	4
ECOT	4	4	4	4
Ohio Virtual Academy	9	9	9	9
Virtual Community School of Ohio	8	8	9	8

So, which of the five DL options would I pick for my child? I would have to say that choosing between Ohio Virtual Academy and Virtual Community School of Ohio would be a challenge. I really liked what both had to offer. At first glance I liked the home page of OHVA, the schools contact number appear right there with no effort to find it. The flow of the website was nice and easy to navigate and I loved the break down of each grade and program. It also gave faces to some of the staff that a family might have contact with. Likewise, OCA was fairly easy to find my way around within the site. Some things that I found very helpful was the live chat option. I would defiantly benefit from that as well as the fact that there are three teacher and administration centers in OH. There is one in Columbus, Cleveland and Cincinnati making it easy to reach out to a live person when absolutely necessary. One more reason I liked this school is because of the five this was the only one that offered a video on how to enroll, explaining the process. This is helpful to both a parent with little technology skills and an older student trying to enroll on their own to make up credits who may not understand exactly what the forms are asking for.

Let me now state which of the five DL options I would NOT pick for my child? The Virtual School House did not have much to offer at first sight, but I wanted to give it a chance, so I continued to click around and check it out. I was disappointed by both the pictures and the lack of up keep of the site. The photos show no kind of diversity as if they are only targeting a specific group. As I moved on to announcements, I found that it has not been up dated since 2015. What? This is crazy. Hello, It's 2017. I hope the curriculum is more up to date. I'll never know, because after doing a little check on the staff I got out of there. Several of the staff members had no profile information available and that is important to me. I need to know as much as I can about who will be working with my child.