E+-+Post+Reading+Strategies

5 - Post Reading Strategies
The following activities are intended to
 * Enable students to deepen and extend their understanding of the content.
 * Allow students to reflect on the information covered in the unit
 * Create anticipation and interest in the units to follow.

__**Strategy #1: Slogan**__ In teams students will create a slogan for their inventor that will be placed on a Bumper Stick, T-Shirt – or button to advertise the important contribution of the inventor.

__**Strategy #2: 6 Word Essay**__ Students will create a 6 word essay to explain the impact that their inventor had on computers.

**__Strategy #3:__ [|http://www.wordle.net] ** Students will utilize the Wordle website to create a page that will include information about the inventor as well as their invention and how the invention impacted the computer world.

__ **Strategy #4: Voice Thread** __ Once students have learned all about the inventors and their inventions they will choose 1 inventor and defend why that inventor / invention had the most impact on computer evolution. The students will utilize Voice Thread to defend their position.

__**Strategy #5: Smart Notebook**__ –(formative assessment) In teams, student will create an assessment about their inventor. The assessment will then be exchanged and each team will take the other teams' assessment.

__**Strategy #6: Bb Discussion**__ Students will view the video clip from Discovery Education that examines the future of technology:

Agent Program

In Bb Discussion link students will answer and discus their opinion of the video clip: The Future of Computers: Agent Program 1) In the video clip what information stood out in your mind the most? 2) Why did the narrator express a fear about the agent program? 3) Do you see the program as an advantage or disadvantage for new technology? 4) Do you believe this will be the next phase in programming? Why or Why