USC/USCA Educational Technology Program

AEET/EDET 650 Internship Contract

Internship Site: EdVenture Children's Museum 211 Gervais Street Columbia, SC 29201 803-779-3100 Contacts: Dina Phillips Volunteer Coordinator () DPhillips@eventure.org Jonathan Lawler 803-429-6597 lawlerj@email.sc.edu Context EdVenture Children's Museum is a nonprofit organization that focuses on improving the knowledge of young children and fostering a love in learning in the younger generation. They do this through a combination of onsite and offsite programs. The onsite programs consist of things such as the museum itself, reading times, toddler Tuesdays, and other one time programs that occur onsite. The offsite programs include child care with homework help and science tutoring, as well as the programs I help with; Future Leaders and Aspire. Aspire is a program that occurs everyday and consists of teaching the students STEM based ideas. Future Leaders is a program that is designed to foster the leaders of the future. The program is quite large. EdVenture itself employees over 60 different employees, and the program that I am a part of consists of 5 people. I work in the external services programs, and specifically in the two programs mentioned before. I am close to both the volunteer programs, Bio investigators lab, and several other onsite educators. Learning Goals and Objectives The purpose of this internship is two fold. First it will help me learn how to integrate technology into a classroom setting, even if that classroom setting is after school. I will also work on teaching my students how to use technology, and how technology is important for their own lives. We are a STEM based program, so other things will also be taught, but I will try to focus technology. I will be designing the program for the first time ever, including the implementation of technology into the program. So in order to be able to chart my progress I will create a lesson plan for each of the lessons that are a part of the program. These will include materials, ideas for the lessons, and the technology that is being focused on. The students will also have a form they will fill out at the beginning of the class and at the end in order to see the effect that the class had on their enjoyment of things like science, and the effect it has on school.

Responsibilities and Tasks Create a pre and post questionnaire in order to test the effectiveness of the program Create a program that will run for different times at different schools The program must follow the rules of the grants acquired by the schools Reflection on the success of the programs in teaching the students STEM based ideals The programs must include technological components, Media Smart in particular

Deliverables 7 week program for Longleaf Aspire Program 24 lesson program for Southeast and Pine Ridges Future Leaders program 34 lesson program for the CAT program Create a pre and post questionnaire for all three of the programs

Schedules and Milestones Weeks 1-2 o Finish the pre and post questionnaires for the programs o Create the first few weeks of the four programs o Run the first few weeks of the programs by going to the schools o Give the pre questionnaire Weeks 3-4 o Create the next weeks of the four programs o Run the next weeks of the programs by going to the schools Weeks 5-6 o Create the next weeks of the four programs o Run the next weeks of the programs by going to the schools Weeks 7-8 o Create the next weeks of the four programs o Run the next weeks of the programs by going to the schools Weeks 9-10 o Create the next weeks of the four programs o Run the next weeks of the programs by going to the schools Weeks 11-12 o Finish the four programs, prepping either for continuing the next semester for new students, or finishing completely o Run the last weeks of the program o Design a end of the class recognition program o Give the post questionnaire o Analyze the data from the questionnaires By signing below I am acknowledging that I agree to the terms in the Internship Contract.

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