Chapter 5: Scenarios 1, 2, &3

By: Jen Niles, Sharon Barkley and Christine Steeves

TIP Model Scenario 1

• Ms. Chinita was teaching her students higher level study skills. She wanted to show them how they could outline a complicated article by drawing a diagram to illustrate the idea in it and how they relate to each other. She found this visual display worked very well because students who were learning this technique for the first time tended to make a lot of mistakes drawing the boxes and connecting the lines, and then they didn’t want to do the work erasing and revising them.

1.1: What software tool would you recommend that Mrs. Chinita use to address this problem?

• Kid Pix: students can select graphic components: colours, shapes and lines from menus and toolbars.

• Program very easy to use. • Adobe Illustrator: can create more complex

drawings, however, require more knowledge of art and graphic techniques.

1.2: What would be the relative advantage of using this software tool?

• Multiple- Intelligences are considered. • Visual learners are able to present their

knowledge through diagrams. • Keeping students interested: allowing

students to be active participants in explaining their knowledge on a subject.

1.3: Would this kind of activity be best done on an individual basis, in pairs, or in groups?

Explain your answer.• In groups students can work together and

share their vision and knowledge of a subject.• Learning a new program takes time, therefore,

in groups students can help each other. • Students may be less frustrated if they have

other students to help them use a new program.

TIP Model Scenario #2

Whenever Mr. Jackson had his students do a research project for his social studies class, he would send them to the library/media center to look up the information in reference books. As it often happened that several students wanted to use the same text, a lot of time was wasted: it was difficult to keep students focused on the information gathering. Mr. Jackson had heard about a software tool that several students could use easily at the same time. In addition, it had pictures and videos as well as text descriptions, so students got more out of the information they did find.

2.1: What software tool did Mr. Jackson have in mind to address this problem?

• Encyclopedia Brittanica• World Atlas• Rand McNally• Map Quest• Google Maps• Webopedia

2.2: What would be the relative advantage of using this software tool?

• Students have access to relevant information immediately.

• Students can find out specific information using these programs.

• Students can hear national songs.• Map Quest can show distances between points.• Students can see pictures of the place they are

researching along with animals, plant life etc…• Word Atlases give pronunciations for difficult words.

2.3: How would it be possible for all the members of a class of 30 students to use this tool at the

same time? • Computer Lab• Rolling Computer Labs• IPads• Cell Phones • Ipods

TIP Model Scenario # 3

• Ms. Hortense’s consumer math classes have more than 40 students each. She likes to give her students weekly quizzes to make sure everyone is keeping up on the skills and to spot those who may need additional help. However, the class is so large and students sit so close together that she also feels she needs several versions of each test to prevent “sharing answers.” She has heard about a software program that she can use to create a pool of items. It also lets her generate different versions of the same test from the items.

3.1: What software tool would you recommend that Ms. Hortense use to address this problem?

• Test Generators:• Exam View Learning

Series• Test Creator• Wondershare/ QuizCreator

• Easy Test Maker

3.2: What would be the relative advantage of using this software tool?

• Software produces test in a standard layout. Arranging, spacing and formatting is done for you.

• Random Generation of questions: Different versions of the same test can be created.

3.3: What tool could she use to make these test easier to score?

• Answer Keys: Program automatically provide an answer key.

• Allows teacher to effortless score different versions of the same test.