English V - Week 11 - Memory

Introduction: In today's class we will continue Chapter 11 by discussing the topic of memory. We will also begin peparing your final project on the topic of innovation in education.

Warm Up: What are you thankful for this year?

Last Thursday was Thanksgiving, one of the most important national holidays of the United States. What do you know about this celebration?

• Jamboard: CLICK HERE

Task 1: Do you have a good memory?

Look at the list below. Which of these are difficult for you to remember? Which are easy for you? Why?

• People's Faces
• People's Names
• Directions to a Place
• Historical Facts and Dates
• Numbers, Passwords, Codes
• Activities you need to do 
• Other information (please specify)

Now, let's test your short-term memory by playing a game. CLICK HERE to take a quiz where you will need to remember people's faces and names. One person should share the screen and you should answer together. When you finish,  discuss these questions.

• Do you have a good memory? Why or why not?
• Why do you think we forget? Why don't our brains save all our memories like a computer?
• What would be the benefits of having a super-memory?
• Tell your partners about a time that you forgot something important?
• What are some techniques or strategies that you have heard can help you remember something?
• Have you ever suddenly remembered something from a long time ago that you had not thought about in years? What caused you to remember that?
• When you teacher was a child in the 1990's, he could easily remember the phone numbers of 10-15 of his friends. Now he doesn't know anyone's phone number except for his own. Is the same true for you? 

Task 2: Reading about Memory

Open your e-book and complete the expecises below with your partners.

• Pg 132 exercises 2, 3, and 4
• Pg 133 read the grammar box and complete exercise 8 and 9

Task 3: Group Discussion

If you finished discussing the poem, answer these questions with your partners.

• What is your earliest memory of school? 
• Describe a teacher from elementary school, high school, or college who is memorable to you in a good way. What can you say about this person?
• Describe a teacher who is memorable to you in a bad way. Why do you have negative associations with them?
• In what ways do you think the teaching-learning process in educational institutions has changed since you were a child? What about since your parents' generation?
• Do you think that the average student experience in high school and college in Costa Rica adequately prepares the student for personal and professional success?

Task 4: Your Final Project

For your final project, you will explore the question, What does innovation in education mean to me?

• Learning Objective: Create and apply a survey to collect data regarding public perceptions about the Costa Rican educational system and analyze the results in order to support the proposal of strategies for innovation.

• Evaluation Rubric: CLICK HERE to see the rubric for this performance.

Instructions: At the end of this project, you will give a presentation to the class with your proposal for ways of innovating the educational experience in Costa Rica. However, you must design your proposal and based on data collected from a survey. 

• Create a Survey: Create a survey using Google Forms to do learn about public peceptions about the educational system. The survey should have three sections:

• The Present System: satisfaction with different aspects of the traditional educational experience (content, methodolgy, rules, evaluation, infrastructure, etc.)
• Innovative Content: the life skills, knowledge and abilities that the public thinks should be included in an innovative educational curriculum
• Innovative Actions: the kinds of activities the public thinks would be enjoyable and effective for learners in an innovative educational experience

• Collect the Data: Your teacher will send the surveys to another group of students to complete.

• Analyze the Data: Look at the results of the survey and analyze the data. What patterns do you see? What discoveries do you make about public perceptions that will influence your proposal?

• Create a Commercial: Create an advertisement for your proposal for innovation in education. Your advertisement should be a 2 minute commercial which you will "perform" live in class. The commercial should be very well organized, have graphic support, and all group members must participate in the live performance. In the commercial we should learn the name of the proposed educational system, its characteristics, reasons why schools should adopt it.

• Present the Proposal: In class you will give a 10-15 minute group presentation about your research project. Your presentation will have five parts:

• An introduction describing the purpose of your research project.
• Description of your survey questions and why you asked them.
• Analysis of the data you collected.
• Performance of the commercial.
• 3-4 discussion questions to ask the audience about the topic of your presentation.

Planning Schedule

• Week 11: Create Survey
• Week 12: Analyze Results
• Week 13: Create commercial and presentation
• Week 14: Present the results of your project

How can we collect information about this? - Now that you have your research topic, you need to create your survey using Google Forms. This tool allows you to create many different kinds of questions. Look at the examples below. Closed questions will give you the best data to analyze. Consider the following options.

Agree or Disagree

Multiple Choice

Scale

Create Your Survey - To create your survey using Google Forms you need a Gmail account. Only one member of your group needs to have a Gmail account. If nobody has one, you can create a new account just for this exercise. Just don't forget your password! Follow these steps.

• Go to Gmail and open your drive.

• Click NEW or NUEVO and open Google Forms

• Click on the three dots and add collaborators. Here you can add the email addresses of your group members so everyone has access to edit the survey. Also, be sure to add your teacher's email address!

• After you finished creating your survey, click SEND or ENVIAR and copy the link. Send the link to your teacher.

Analyze Your Results - The teacher will post the links to all of the surveys in the Entorno Virtual. When everyone has responded to your survey, you will need to analyze the results. 

• Click RESPONSES or RESPUESTAS.

• Google Forms automatically generates graphics and percentages for you based on the data. You can take screenshots of these graphics to include in your presentation. 

When you look at the results of the survey ask yourselves the following questions:

• What do these results tell us?
• What generalizations can we make?
• What contradictions do we notice?
• What information did we expect to find? What did we actually find?
• Is anything surprising?
• What do we want our class to know about these results?

Prepare Your Presentation - Now you are ready to present your findings to the class. Create a PowerPoint presentation that includes the following information.

• Name of your research project
• Introduction: What is the purpose of your research project?
• Survey: What questions did you ask? Why did you think these questions will help you collect the data you need?
• Data Analysis: What were the results? Share the graphics and the analysis that you did.
Analysis of the data you collected.
• Commercial: How can you present your own original proposal for an innovative educational system in the form of an interesting and informative commercial?
• Discussion Questions: What are 3-4 questions you can ask the audience about the topic of your presentation?