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'Flu' medicine education study module with Google Sites scaffolded environment

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Description

A six-hour medicine education study module ('Flu'), part of the course 'Teaching Approaches to Human Biology', based on the Internet site 'Teaching children about the proper use of medicines' and originally designed for primary school grades 4-6. "The scaffolded group was encouraged to work with the case and presentation templates online in Google Sites, while the unscaffolded group worked only with Word documents." The scaffolded presentation template included all three PROFILES stages, and students annotated and uploaded it to the Google Docs environment.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • A shared blog for initial writings on medicine education
  • Three provided websites on flu symptoms, home resources and self-care medicines
  • A presentation template covering the Scenario, Inquiry and Decision-making Stages

Constraints

  • Studied with only six student teachers in two groups of three, formed at random by the lecturer

Target Learners

  • primary school teacher students

Learning Goals

  • searching for and evaluating information found on the net
  • proper use of self-care medicines
  • group working skills
  • justifying arguments

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Sirpa Kärkkäinen, Jari Kukkonen and Tuula Keinonen. (2014). Scaffolding in a Medicine Education Intervention for Student Teachers Based on the PROFILES Three Stage Model. ceps Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1. https://journals.cepsj.si
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title 'Flu' medicine education study module with Google Sites scaffolded environment
description A six-hour medicine education study module ('Flu'), part of the course 'Teaching Approaches to Human Biology', based on the Internet site 'Teaching children about the proper use of medicines' and originally designed f...
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