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Using DLESE: Finding Resources to Enhance Teaching

Using DLESE: Finding Resources to Enhance Teaching. Holly Devaul Shelley Olds 17 March 2004. Overview. What challenges do educators face when searching for resources? What is the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)?

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Using DLESE: Finding Resources to Enhance Teaching

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  1. Using DLESE: Finding Resources to Enhance Teaching Holly Devaul Shelley Olds17 March 2004

  2. Overview • What challenges do educators face when searching for resources? • What is the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)? • How can I use DLESE to find resources that help my teaching and • support FOSS kit instruction • offer ideas for a field investigation project • Hands-on exploration of DLESE • Report out/reflection

  3. Challenges in finding resources • How can I find good “stuff”? • Can it be integrated quickly? • Is it versatile? • Will it motivate students? • Is it aligned with skills I’m expected to teach? • Is it reliable?

  4. Why use a digital library? • Provides efficient discovery of quality materials • Provides safe environment and “boundaries” on the web • Acknowledges the current reliance on the Internet for information • “About 75 percent of students said they used the Internet first, then went to a professor or librarian for assistance, and consulted print sources last.”

  5. Digital Library for Earth System Education • Emphasizes interdisciplinary approach to science • Includes processes, states, cycles, and interactions among the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere and space from a global to local perspective, across time scales • Highlights materials that bring the Earth system into the classroom or learning situation, and that demonstrate the applicationof science to solving real world problems Resources that support Earth System Education:

  6. What does DLESE offer? • Learning resources about the Earth System • Lesson plans, computer and lab activities, data, instructor guides, visualizations, virtual field trips… • Themed collections about a specific topic • Reviewed collections • Resources contributed and described by educators and scientists

  7. DLESE also offers • Services to help users effectively create and use materials • Search by educational standards • Read and contribute teaching tips and reviews • Community connections • Attend workshops, summer institutes, and events • Learn about funding sources • Participate in discussion groups on a wide range of topics • Receive DLESE monthly electronic newsletter • Interfaces and tools to allow exploration of Earth data sets (coming soon!)

  8. Making use of resource types * Bloom

  9. Discussion questions • What are some concepts that have been difficult to teach? • Are there areas that the FOSS kits don’t cover? Concepts that could use enhancement? • How might technology assist with these situations?

  10. Explore DLESE • Pick a topic/concept: • To enhance a module or to help build a field investigation • Begin searching for resources • Write down URLs of interesting resources • Goals: • Find resources that will be useful to you • Report back to group on what you find or don’t find!

  11. Tools on your desktop • Worksheet • Topic • Grade level • URLs, etc. • Notes • Web browser opened to www.dlese.org

  12. Post-exploration discussion • What topics did you explore? For what grade level? • What kinds of searches did you do? • Did you find what you were looking for? • Why or why not; suggestions for broadening a search

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