Instructional design/Tablet Technology/Instructional Plan

Lesson Planning

Lesson Planning Apps

Using tablets are not only for your students, but also for you, instructors. How about planning your lesson using your tablet? There are lots of lesson planning apps in online app stores for tablets. However, it might be difficult to for you to find appropriate lesson planning apps because there would be tons of search results. Thus, it would be a good idea to search recommended lesson planning apps, for example, Top 10 iPad Apps for Lesson Planning, 20 Time-Saving Mac Apps for Teachers something like that.

Sure, it doesn’t have to be a lesson planning app, just use a method you want. Let’s make a lesson plan. Since it takes too much time to create a whole lesson plan, an example of an activity lesson plan will be explained in this unit.

Lesson (Activity) Plan

1. Think about the topic of an instructional activity. For example, “questioning activity using tablets with a clicker app.”

2. Consider instructional objective of the activity. Questioning activities can be used to check students’ preparation or assess their assignment. In addition, the activity can be used to increase class interactions (both student-instructor and student-student) depending on instructional strategies.

3. Find an appropriate app for the activity. This needs to be described in the “Apps Needed” with detailed explanations. Not sure how to select an appropriate app for the activity? Check out one of these pages to help get you started:

4. Specify (expected) students’ learning outcomes. This needs to be described in the “Apps Needed” with detailed explanations.

5. Describe the activity in detail. For example, for this questioning activity, you need to create questions (with multiple choice responses) to support the activity objectives. For the discussion activity, you need to plan how to communicate clearly with your students.

6. Plan assessment. Lastly, assessment plan is needed to check whether the activity objectives are obtained or not.

Sample Lesson (Activity) Plan

Activity Title	Questioning activity using tablets with a clicker app.
Activity Objective	To assess the student preparation - Questions about reading assignment To increase classroom interaction - Questions that start discussion - Questions that collect students’ opinions after the discussion
Target Audience	Undergraduate students
Apps Needed	Classroom Clicker - EnClicker (Free app) Download: Android Tablet or iPad
Time	45 minutes
Overall Flow	1. Download EnClicker to the instructor’s and students’ tablets. 2. Create questions in advance using the app. 3. Let the students access to the questions using the app. 4. Receive students’ answers 5. Encourage discussion based on the students’ answers 6. Give feedback to the students
Student Outcomes	The students will be able to: 1. … 2. … 3. …
Prepared Questions	Assessment Questions - Multiple choice 1. … 2. … 3. … 4. … Assessment Questions - Essay 1. … 2. … Discussion Starter Question - Open-ended 1. … Polling Question - Multiple choice 1. … 2. … 3. … 4. …
Assessment	Assess the student preparation 1. Correct answers for the multiple choice questions: … 2. Examples of correct answers for the essay questions: … Assess student discussion 1. Correct answers for the multiple choice questions: …

Activity

Make your own lesson (activity) plan that includes using a tablet app.

Referencing the table above, grab a blank sheet of paper or open a blank document where you can craft your own lesson plan that includes the use of a tablet application.

Assessment

You can assess your lesson (activity) plan on your own based on the following rubric. Or, if you want perhaps unbiased feedback, you may want to ask your colleagues to assess yours using this rubric.

Components	Outstanding	Acceptable	Unacceptable
Objective and learning outcome	[2.5pt] The topic and objective are appropriate for the target audience. Objectives provide concise descriptions of expected student outcomes.	[1.5pt] The topic and objective clearly identify the target audience.	[0pt] The topic and objective are not clearly stated and/or do not identify the target audience.
Apps needed	[2.5pt] Needed Apps are accurately identified, listed, and directly related to instructional objectives. Additional information is provided such as purchase locations, price, and links.	[1pt] Needed Apps are accurately identified, listed, and related to instructional objectives.	[0pt] Needed Apps are inadequate, poorly described or missing in order to meet instructional objectives.
Instructional activity	[2.5pt] Instructional activities are clear and easy to understand. Specifically, how to use the selected app is well-described. Sequential information provides for easy execution of instruction. Alternative suggestions are given for modifications and extensions depending on the classroom situations.	[1.5pt] Instructional activities are clear and concise. How to use the selected app is described.	[0pt] Instructional activities are vague and difficult to understand. How to use the selected app is not described.
Assessment	[2.5pt] Assessment plan is relevant to the instructional objective. The assessment is integrated within the instructional activity.	[1pt] Assessment plan is described.	[0pt] Assessment plan is incomplete and/or not related to the instructional objective.

What is your score? Higher than 7 is recommended.