Integrating Instructional Software into Teaching and Learning

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Integrating Instructional Software into Teaching
and Learning

• By Derek Baker
• Texas AM-Commerce
• Hall Director of New Pride Apartments

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Overview

• Drill and Practice Activities
• Tutorial Activities
• Simulation Activities
• Instructional Games
• Problem Solving Courseware
• Integrated Learning Systems
• Evaluating and Selecting Instructional Software

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Drill and Practice (Kill) Activities

• Definition Characteristics
• Issues Related to Drill and Practice
• Automatic recall of arithmetic
• Keyboard proficiency
• Graded compositions
• Many schools still require students to memorize
  facts
• College entrance exams other standardized tests
  require quick recall of many facts

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How to Use Drill and Kill in Teaching

• Benefits of drill functions
• Immediate feedback
• Motivation
• Saving Teacher time
• Classroom applications of drill functions
• Supplement/replace worksheets and homework
  exercises
• In preparation for tests
• Guidelines for using drill and kill
• Set time limits
• Assign individually Use learning stations

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Tutorial Activities

• Definition Characteristics
• Delivers an entire day worth of teaching just in
  another form

• Issues Related to Tutorials
• Well designed packages
• Cost

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How to use Tutorials in Teaching

• Benefits of tutorial functions
• Substitutes for teacher presentation
• Classroom applications of tutorial functions
• Self-paced reviews of instruction
• Alternative learning strategies
• Instruction when teachers are unavailable
• Guidelines for using tutorials
• Make tutorials as a learning station
• Available for checkout

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Simulation Activities

• Definition Characteristics
• A role playing where the user needs to use
  critical thinking skills
• Issues Related to Simulations
• Very young children that are in the early stages
  of their cognitive development should use one
  fives senses compare to the use of 1 or 2 senses
  (eyes and/or ears)

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How to Use Simulations in Teaching

• Benefits of simulation functions
• Compress time
• Slow down processes
• Get students involved
• Make experimentation safe
• Make the impossible possible
• Save money other resources
• Repeat w/ variations
• Make situations controllable

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How to Use Simulations in Teaching (cont.)

• Classroom applications of simulation functions
• In place of or as supplements to lab experiments
• In place of or as supplements to role playing
• In place of or as supplements to field trips
• Introducing a new topic
• Fostering exploration and process learning
• Encouraging cooperation and group work
• Guidelines for using simulation functions
• Choose the correct size
• Locate one for topic

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Instructional Games

• Definition Characteristics
• Courseware that the function is to increase
  motivation by adding game rules to the activity
• Issues Related to Instructional Games
• Overused and misused
• How to Use Instructional Games in Teaching
• In place of worksheets and exercises
• To foster cooperation and group work
• As a reward

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Problem Solving Courseware

• Definition Characteristics
• Issues Related to Problem Solving Courseware
• Names verses skills
• Courseware claims versus effectiveness
• Possible harmful effects if directed instruction
• The problem of transfer
• How to Use Problem Solving Courseware in
  Teaching
• Benefits, applications, and guidelines for using
  directed strategies with problem-solving
  courseware
• Benefits, applications, and guidelines for using
  constructivist strategies with problem solving
  courseware
• Guidelines for using problem solving software

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Integrated Learning Systems (ILS)

• Definition Characteristics
• Issues Related to ILSs
• Cost of ILS
• Research on ILS impact
• Concerns about the role of ILS
• How to Use ILSs in Teaching
• Directed applications for ILSs
• For remediation
• As a mainstream delivery system
• Constructivist applications for ILSs

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Evaluating Selecting Instructional Software

• The Need for Evaluation
• Courseware Evaluation Procedures
• Begin with an identified need
• Locate titles
• Complete hands on reviews
• Collect student reviews
• Courseware Evaluation Procedures
• Selecting Software for Constructivist Versus
  Directed Uses

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