1 CLASS Lesson Planning System and Teachers’ Collaboratory Dagobert Soergel With Katy Lawley, Tandeep Sidhu, Ryen White, and David Doermann College of Information Studies and UMIACS University of Maryland

2 Outline CLASS A Collaborative Lesson-planning And Search System Growing a teachers’ collaboratory using CLASS Joint funded project?

3 CLASS functionality The design of a lesson planning system

4 1A knowledge organization infrastructure that fosters development of shared understandings and supports organization of materials. 2Mediated access to digital libraries containing many types of materials with powerful, ontology-enhanced search 3Intellectual property rights and access management 4A collaborative template-based authoring system with annotation facility 5Communication functionality 6Integration with the teachers total work environment, including lesson plan evaluation 7Interaction history. Customization and personalization, adaptive system 8An interface that provides easy access to all this functionality 9Extensibility

5 Pilot study of CLASS 5-day lesson planning workshop for 8 teachers Focus on Holocaust and tolerance education Visual History Archive University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education 52,000 Interviews with Holocaust survivors, subset of 800 fully integrated with CLASS

6 CLASS walk-through

7 Figure 1. Opening screen for creating a lesson plan

8 Figure 2. Lesson plan outline

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10 Figure 3. Selection of applicable standards

11 Figure 4. Selection of applicable vocabulary words

12 Figure 5. Query formulation for a theme in the lesson planning module

13 Figure 6a. Browse the thesaurus

14 Figure 6b. Descriptor found in detailed information for soldiers

15 Figure 7. Display of results

16 Figure 8a. Segment Display. Detailed information about the segment

17 Figure 8a. Segment Display. Detailed information about the segment

18 Figure 8b. Segment Assessment. The full form

19 Figure 8b. Segment Assessment. The full form

20 Figure 8c. Segment Display and Segment Assessment sharing the screen

21 Figure 9. Interview segment added to lesson plan module

22 1 Knowledge organization infrastructure Foster development of shared understandings among users and support organization of materials. This includes 1.1A lesson plan template that lays out the components of a lesson plan. 1.2A query template to assist in formulating queries for learning objects and other materials. 1.3A material appraisal form using the same structure as the query template, same structure as A hierarchy of educational standards from several jurisdictions. 1.4A thesaurus / classification of topics in each accessed database domain that is useful for searching and for giving teachers content ideas.

23 6 Integration with the teacher’s total work environment 6.1Associate lesson plans with time slots for a given class. 6.2Prepare requests for permission to use materials as needed. 6.3Have material, such as quizzes, prepared in sufficient number or arrange for electronic administration. 6.4Order equipment needed as specified in the lesson plan. 6.5Notify the school library media specialist of assignments that require the use of the school library media center. 6.6Have a function for recording grades and importing detailed standardized test scores (broken down by educational standard).

24 Experience with CLASS Teachers were able to search the archive. Teachers used the materials appraisal form for their own purposes (not enough critical mass for collaboration). Teachers were able to develop well-structured lesson plans in a short time. Teachers indicated that they do not collaborate much at present but would be inclined to collaborate more if they had a tool like CLASS.

25 CLASS as the infrastructure for a teacher collaboratory Pilot Could be defined by geography or by domain (for example, Chemistry or Holocaust) Need a partner organization to work with (for example, NSDL or the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education) Need to seed a database with materials and lesson plans

26 Supported by NSF award IIS Dagobert Soergel

27 The opportunity

28 The opportunity