Butterfly defect is a phenomenon that occurs when students ...

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Butterfly defect is a phenomenon that occurs when students flutter from one enticing link on the Internet to the next, often forgetting what they are researching. They may begin with a homework assignment in which they research examples of a specific economic downturn. They begin a search by entering keywords into Google. An hour later, they have not completed their search or succeeded in finding examples.
 
  Create a draft for the content of a lesson plan that deals with butterfly defect in a high school classroom. Use a constructivist approach to address the problem.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Students in Mrs. Davis's high school media class are designing instructional videos. Their target audience is students in grades 1-3 . Their goal is to help these students use technology safely, wisely, and abide by rules of netiquette. As they finish developing a video lesson, they arrange to go into the classrooms in grades 1-3 and present the lesson to the children. After each lesson, the high school students discuss their reflections about the session. They look for ways to improve the lesson and transfer those types of changes to the next lesson. The attentiveness of the young children helps Mrs. Davis's high school students feel that they are making a difference.
 
  Is this an example of service learning? Explain why or why not on the basis of established characteristics of service learning.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Answer to Question 1

Suggested Response: Answers will vary. The following draft presents one possible approach using constructivist methods.
Topic: Butterfly Defect
Objective: Students discover the ineffectiveness of unfocused searches.
General plan: Assign a topic such as butterfly defect. Conduct an experiment with students. First, give students the topic and tell them they have 15 minutes to research the topic with a goal of finding information about butterfly defect as the term is defined in this lesson

Answer to Question 2

Suggested Response:
Yes, this is an example of service learning.
Students are engaged in organized activities that meet a community need. The young students in the school community benefit from the instruction they receive from the older students.
The service involves students' use of knowledge and skills they are learning in their high school media class. The service project is tied to the learning objectives for the curriculum of the course.
Students apply knowledge and skills they learn in media class to develop the instructional videos and to share their knowledge with the younger students.
They reflect on their service when they return to their high school classroom and discuss the effectiveness of their sessions with young students. Their reflections lead to improvements on following sessions.
The service learning experience enhances academic learning with direct application to a real-world setting. It seems to enhance these high school students' sense of caring for others as they notice the attentiveness of the young children and feel they are making a difference.
Text Reference: Service Learning