Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Revising My Game Plan
Education is changing rapidly with the integration of technology use in the classroom. Using a game plan to promote the use of technology in our content will enable teachers to meet standards in our curriculum and the National Educational Technology Standards. According the Cennamo, Ross, & Ertmer “As in any self-directed learning activity, you need to set goals for your own professional growth, take action, then monitor and evaluate your progress toward obtaining your goals”(p.11).
At this stage in my game plan I have learned how to set-up blogs. I will use these blogs in my class as one of my collaboration tools. The goals that I still need experience in is facilitating and inspiring student learning and creativity(d) model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues and others in face-to face and virtual environments. This is one area where I will put this part of my plan into action when I am back in the classroom with my students. I plan to have my students explore technology that will allow them to create virtual environments.
Based on the NET-S I am looking forward to moving towards standard number two, design and develop digital age learning experience and assessments. I will not move on to this standard until I have met the other two standards.
The learning approaches that I would like to implement in my social studies contents are using daily blogs, creating wikis, and using technology that promotes videos for the lesson.
Overall, the revising part of my game plan will take place after each phase of assessments that I will conduct with my students. The assessment can help me track what areas of improvement I need in my game plan for revision.

Reference
Cennamo, K., Ross, J., & Ertmer, P. (2009). Technology Integration for Meaningful
Classroom Use: A Standards-Based Approach. (Laureate Education, Inc.,
Custom ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadworth, Cengage Learning.

3 comments:

  1. Good for you for knowing that assessing yourself will come at certain stages of learning as you work towards the goals that you have set for yourself. I will be doing the same thing as I work with my GAME Plan....continually assessing myself each step of the way. Do you know what types of assessments that you will be using for your students yet? Will you be sharing your learning goals with them as you begin the school year? How will you provide feedback to your students? Using technology?
    Your ideas with the virtual environment sounds very interesting and exciting. I can't wait to hear how it turns out!
    Good luck.
    Marilyn Goodrich
    K-12 Ed. Con.

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  2. Marilyn, I'm not sure what type of assessment I will be conducting. I will introduce my learning goals at the beginning of the school year and try to follow them with my classes throughout the school year.

    Julie Luton

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  3. Julie,
    There are times I also am not sure how I will assess or go about doing something until I actually get more "into" what I am teaching. I realize that it might be a terrible thing to say, but I always get these wonderful ideas at the last minute!
    Marilyn Goodrich
    K-12 Ed. Con.

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