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=Genesis Staff Wiki= =Genesis High School= =Bastrop, Texas=

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The purpose of this wiki is to improve the students' use of technology at our campus, to improve their cooperative learning skills, and to insure a smooth transition of that technology into our campus, according to the Texas Long-Range plan for Technology Applications. According to our Texas Campus STaR Chart for the 2007-2008 school year, Genesis High School has done well, but still shows much room for improvement. GHS scored "Advanced Tech" in all areas except area II - Educator Preparation and Development, where we scored "Developing Tech." Solomon and Schrum show that "Technology affects how students live and communicate and when, where, and how they learn" (Web 2.0, p. 27). Because of this, we at Genesis believe that for our students to truly get a useful education in today's world, they must be "tech savvy" when they graduate.

We will also study our students to find out how, if at all, technology is helping our students be successful in school.

To improve the use of technology in our students, let's work to answer the four planning questions of instruction, which are put forth by Pitler, Hubbell, Kuhn, and Malenoski.

1.) What will students learn? (Instructional Strategies: Setting objectives)

2.) Which strategies will provide evidence of student learning? (Instructional Strategies: Providing feedback, providing recognition)

3.) Which strategies will help students acquire and integrate learning? (Instructional Strategies: Cues, questions, and advance organizers; Nonlinguistic representation; Summarizing and note taking; Cooperative learning; Reinforcing effort)

4.) Which strategies will help students practice, review, and apply learning? (Instructional Strategies: Identifying similarities and differences, Homework and practice, Generating and testing hypotheses)