Internship+Action+Research+Project

 **Title**: How can the Active board hardware and the Active Inspire software increase first grade attention spam and engagement during a math lesson covering addition math facts. **Needs Assessment:** **Mrs. Sanchez Logramos Test Results 2010-2011 School Year**
 * || Concepts || Problems || Computation || Total ||
 * Number of Students || 20 || 20 || 20 || 20 ||
 * Hispanic || 20 || 20 || 20 || 20 ||
 * Boys || 9 || 9 || 9 || 9 ||
 * Girls || 11 || 11 || 11 || 11 ||
 * Normal Curve equivalence || 62 || 62 || 56 || 59 ||
 * National Students Norm || 72 || 71 || 61 || 67 ||

Based on this Logramos test result it is possible to determine that math computation is the area where first grade students struggle more. The basic computation of addition math facts requires repetition and students that are used to watch TV and use computers that present everything in a multimedia way with sound and radiant colors could be affected by the difficulty of dedicating time to repetitive an monotone task like memorizing math facts. **Objectives and Vision of the action research project:** Since the very beginning of my teaching experience, I realized that one of the most challenging, intense but at the same time exciting aspects about this wonderful profession was to be in a classroom with a hipper active and mega stimulated technology era group of students that expect teachers to deliver amazing just like TV or video games motivating, explosive and multimedia 3D lessons that would not allow them to think that they are at school learning. This was one of the main reasons why I decided to turn around and find ways to create and deliver those XXI century lesson plans that will engage and motivate all my students even those galactic combat fighters that are use to press a button hundreds of times a minute in order to defeat an alien invader and make a high tech music play loud enough to make the whole house know that they saved the earth once again. **Review of the Literature and Action Research Strategy:** One of the contributions that I knew since the beginning that was going to be able to bring to my teaching was technology. Since I was ten years old I became involved with technology when Apple company brought one of those floppy disk first generation personal computer to my campus. Because of the importance of the event, my school designated that day as a technology one and we students were able to walk, ask, observe, touch and enjoy the different presentations that each one of the four of five stands that Apple installed there for presenting different features and programs that were available for the new marvel of technology. **Articulate the Vision:** Computers are here to stay, nobody can deny that. Students are growing in a place surrounded by electronic devices and computers. We have students that were born and no longer than the time they needed to start talking were introduced to the skills of moving a mouse and play games and navigate the internet. The idea of students being provided with classroom instruction more according with their environment where computers and electronic devices play an important role is the key of this research project. To state that students are able to engage and learn better when lesson are delivered by technology and multimedia is something that I think everyone would agree and promote. **Manage the organization:** The implementation of this research is extremely simple because it is just based on classroom observations of lessons related to math addition facts that are normal part of the first grade curriculum and the usage of the Active Board hardware and Active Inspire software that is a common practice in my school.

**Manage Operations:** The assessment of this project is based on measure for how long students are able to work answering math facts problems when the Active Board and Active Inspire technological resources are used to deliver the lesson and compare it with the time that students can engage and work with the same problems when lesson is delivered by just simple a white board and paper assignment.

**Respond to Community Interest and Needs:** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Because children education is one of the priorities for any society and helping students to become successful learners and prepare them for their future lives as productive citizens, incorporating the technologies that they will require to become productive and competitive in the world that is coming full of competition and not only with in the US but all around the globe in a globalized economy is of course in the best interest of the community and strictly an must and a basic need. **__<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Final Document: __** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">