Title: "The personal computer (hardware)"
Subject: Technology 1
Course: 2º ESO
Introduction.
This is a CLIL didactic unit planned and developed like pupil in the course for teachers "Uso de Recursos Educativos abiertos para el aprendizaje integrado de contenidos y lenguas extranjeras (AICLE)", in the autumn of 2018.
This unit is related to computing and new technologies, specifically with the hardware of personal computers.
More than 95 percent of spanish teenagers usually use personal computers (pc). Nowadays, it's an element of our technological environment and for this reason they have to know all the necessary about this machine.
On the other hand, it's important know different uses of personal computers in order to distinguish correct uses of this element.
At the end of this didactic unit the student will be able ...
To know personal computers' operation
To distinguish the different types of computers
To know the structure of a personal computer (pc)
To Identify the components of personal computer equipment
To know the function of the computer components
To describe the characteristics of the main parts of a pc
To know how to connect different peripheral devices to a central unit
To distinguish what are correct uses of a pc from what aren't
Class distribution.
This didactic unit will be distributed in nine periods of fifty minutes.
1st period. We will introduce this unit with a very short flash animation of the Educarex Resource Bank, in which some cartoons begin to use the topic and the unit's vocabulary in English with a touch of humour. It will be shown with subtitles, making it easier to understand for the students.
Then they will know the vocabulary related with hardware in some vocabulary activation activities like this letter-soup.
The students will also be provided with online dictionaries, in the classes where they work with his laptop, such as Cambridge, for general purpose, or other online, more technical as Webopedia, so that they can find the words they need.
Both in this period and in the following, they also can consult their teacher or the conversation assistant, if necessary.
We will continue with the visualization of a simple video about types of computers and personal computers' operation, with specific vocabulary. They will watch the video with subtitles. This activity will be accompanied by an appropriate scaffolding activity, a video quiz made with educaplay.
2nd period. In this period the students will start reading an article of Wikipedia that explains the differences between hardware and software, talks about the different types of computers and their main parts.
Tthen the students will listen and watch a prezzi presentation of the parts of a pc (big group).
3rd period. They will make their own short presentation (5 minutes) with Impress or Powerpoint about pc's parts and its functions (in pairs). For the most advanced students we would have an activity of broadening knowledge in which they will watch an image, will read the names of each part, and will write a list with the full names.
Then, the pupils will visualize a video about the parts of a desktop computer.
Finally, in this class the pupils will match components with functions in an interactive activity.
4th period.We would continue with an audio from Wikipedia related to the evolution of the computer, which can include subtitles. It is an extensive article, but they only will listen to its first part, where they pronounce and write many of the terms related to the hardware of the computers and with the types of computers. A scaffolding activity has been manufactured with a word processor. There would be two or three auditions, and the student will fill the gaps in the activity ".
After that, to prepare the final task of assembling the computer, and for students can follow the teacher's instructions, in this period students will identify the usual ports on a PC. This activity will be executed by typing and pronouncing the names of the ports, either with the help of the conversation assistant or with the help of online tools such as the WordReference-dictionary. At the beginning, they will take a photograph from the back of their personal computer, and then they will insert this picture into a text file, in which the ports will be identified in a similar way to the image of this link.
5th period. In this session will be used some exercises extracted directly from activities of the Clil repository of the Junta de Andalucía, facilitated by the tutor of our course, which has been selected a unit of which has been extracted two activities:
• The activity 5.1. to review vocabulary, relating with your image, and
• The activity 5.2, which is an Internet information search activity.
6th period. Following the explanations of the teacher who will perform the process first, the students will disarm a computer, in pairs, distinguish its main parts and re-mount it.
7th period. The student will be asked to translate into English and subtitle, with DotSub, a cartoon video related to the cyberbullying.
After that they will visit a web page with some tips for victims of cyberbullying (individual).
8th period. The students will investigate in their houses the use of the computer in the family and school environment (individual).
In class they will make, in small groups, a short presentation on new technology-related disorders. They will be able to find some information related to in these webs, for instance:
The exposition of this presentation will have a duration of 5 minutes for each group.
By I.F.S.
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