FRIT 7430: UbD Stage 1 Assignment

Martha Meloy

FRIT 7430: Instructional Design

Stage 1, Understanding by Design

Fall 2009
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UbD Stage 1 Template

Title of Communication and Grade

Unit Collaboration with Level Gifted – 3rd Grade
Technology
Curriculum Technology
Time 3 weeks
Area Frame
Stage 1 – Identify Desired Results
Content Standards:

2. Communication and Collaboration

Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively,
including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.

Students will:
a. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety
of digital environments and media.
b. communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety
of media and formats.
c. develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of
other cultures.
d. contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems.

Understandings
Students will understand that:

Overarching Understandings
- Communication is essential to gain ideas about the world we live in.
- Collaborating or working with others is valuable in gaining new perspectives on ideas.
- Having perspective on different points of view is necessary for global empathy and global
interpretation.
- Technology, communication, and collaboration are interrelated concepts in today’s digital
society.
- Communication and collaboration can be applicable to numerous and diverse situations.

Topical Understanding
- Sharing the student’s own ideas and working with other students on a problem solving task are
valuable in determining self efficacy by having their own ideas valued and supported and by
supporting and valuing others ideas.
- Valuing another country’s input in determining an acceptable advertisement about what
makes a good book will allow for more of an interpretive and empathetic point of view dealing
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with cultural understanding and global awareness.

Related Misconceptions:
- Working by oneself is the most effective way to accomplish a task.
- A student’s own ideas are the only ones that matter.
- Communication and Collaboration are not important in today’s society.
- Other countries and cultures do not matter to me.

Essential Questions
Overarching Questions: Topical Questions:

1. Is communication and collaboration with 1. Should one country’s ideas and opinions be
others important? Why or Why not? valued more than another country’s ideas and
2. Why are different opinions other than your opinions? How is this value determined?
own opinions valuable? When would other 2. Are opinions about what makes a good book
opinions be valuable? other than your own important?
3. What might happen if humans were not able to 3. What are the strengths and weaknesses of
communicate and collaborate with each other? collaborating with others?
4. What makes an idea valued and considered
credible? Who creates credible and valued
ideas?
5. What do technological advances reveal about
the human race?
6. What makes effective communication?

Knowledge and Skills

Knowledge Skills
Students will know: Students will be able to:

- Key Terms – Communication, Collaboration, - collaborate on a wiki with students in their

Wiki, Digital Story, Cultural Understanding,
Global Awareness
- How to communicate and collaborate with
others using different digital environments
- How to interact with and publish with peers a
technology driven advertisement that is
intended for multiple audiences in both
countries represented on the Wiki assignment
own classroom and with students in another
country
- email an expert for information
- produce a digital story advertisement on what
makes a good book
- produce an electronic brochure to advertise
qualities that make a good book
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understandings understandings that will understandings that are understandings clearly
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that relate to lead to some discovery enduring, based on utilize the six facets of
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and unit questions serve as arguable, and likely to generate inquiry around the
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right answers provoke student essential questions.

and do not engagement. Includes 2
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