Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Monitoring my GAME Plan Progress
When it comes to my GAME plan I have found that there are tons of valuable information out there for me to use. I have been performing internet searches and speaking to my districts technology specialist. One thing that has come to my attention is the lack of technology that my district is providing for it’s high school students. I have had to find free programs on line to create blogs and wikis because my district is not funding this type of technology. I have a lot of questions for my district when it comes to why they are not trying to improve the technology usage on the secondary level. I really do not understand this. I am going to schedule a trial and run error with my media center specialist to begin working on creating a classroom wiki page so that I can finally put some of my knowledge to use. I must do this before I can make any other modifications to my GAME plan. I did have some success this week when I took my students to the computer lab and we begin working on academic integrity. APA format is so foreign to them and I ended having to have them use a citation maker that I found on the internet.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Carrying out my GAME Plan
The first thing I need to do to carry out my GAME plan is to become proficient with the technology that a plan to have my students utilize. I want to create a classroom blog and utilize podcasting. I believe that I have the blogging part down but I have a little bit of experience when it comes podcasting. Cennamo, Ertmer and Ross (2009) talked about setting goals. Goal one is to practice the technology and learn how to utilize the technology that is available to me. My second goal is to make sure that my students learn the fundamentals of finding and evaluating Internet sources. In a previous course I took at Walden University I was supplied with a textbook that contained classroom applications that I can use with my classes to make sure they learn who to properly evaluate and cite sources. I will work with my students on this before we begin our Internet resources. I will look for online tutorials and find different strategies that I can model for my students. Most importantly I will discuss with my Media Center specialist to see what technology we have available in our district for our students to utilize.
Sadie
References:
Cennamo, K., Ross, J., & Ertmer, P. (2009). Technology integration for meaningful classroom use: A standards-based approach. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
Sadie
References:
Cennamo, K., Ross, J., & Ertmer, P. (2009). Technology integration for meaningful classroom use: A standards-based approach. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
My 2011 GAME plan
The GAME plan enables you to customize your approach to learning tasks, to develop relevant skills that are important to you and prepares you for lifelong learning (Cennamo, 2009). The GAME Plan consists of four major components that are:
1. Set Goals
2. Take Action to meet those goals
3. Monitor progress made towards achieving those goals
4. Evaluating the success and extending one’s learning to include new situations.
My GAME plan for addressing standards set forth by the National Educational Technology Standards for Students will address inspiring and facilitating student creativity and learning and promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility.
The first of the two standards I have chosen is to facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity. I plan to create a classroom blog with a future goal of incorporating podcast where students will engage with the literature and each other. Since this will be my first attempt at this we will work as a class and most of the work and blogging will be done during class time set aside. Hopefully my students will think deeper into the topic at hand and personally engage with their work. I will evaluate their progress according to a rubric that I will develop specifically for this activity.
The second standard I would like to address would be to promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility. I have come to the knowledge that my students (even my seniors) do not know how to properly cite their sources. The goal is to successfully have my students document copyrighted material. The best way to start this is by showing my students how to find and evaluate credible sources of information on the internet. I will discuss and model different strategies for my students. I will monitor my students progress and ensure that they are using the correct process. I will create a rubric for evaluation and hold conference with my students to ensure their success.
References:
Cennamo, K., Ross, J., & Ertmer, P. (2010). Technology integration for meaningful classroom use: A standards-based approach. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
National Education Standards for Teachers (NETS-T) located at http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForTeachers/2008Standards/NETS_T_Standards_Final.pdf.
1. Set Goals
2. Take Action to meet those goals
3. Monitor progress made towards achieving those goals
4. Evaluating the success and extending one’s learning to include new situations.
My GAME plan for addressing standards set forth by the National Educational Technology Standards for Students will address inspiring and facilitating student creativity and learning and promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility.
The first of the two standards I have chosen is to facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity. I plan to create a classroom blog with a future goal of incorporating podcast where students will engage with the literature and each other. Since this will be my first attempt at this we will work as a class and most of the work and blogging will be done during class time set aside. Hopefully my students will think deeper into the topic at hand and personally engage with their work. I will evaluate their progress according to a rubric that I will develop specifically for this activity.
The second standard I would like to address would be to promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility. I have come to the knowledge that my students (even my seniors) do not know how to properly cite their sources. The goal is to successfully have my students document copyrighted material. The best way to start this is by showing my students how to find and evaluate credible sources of information on the internet. I will discuss and model different strategies for my students. I will monitor my students progress and ensure that they are using the correct process. I will create a rubric for evaluation and hold conference with my students to ensure their success.
References:
Cennamo, K., Ross, J., & Ertmer, P. (2010). Technology integration for meaningful classroom use: A standards-based approach. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
National Education Standards for Teachers (NETS-T) located at http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForTeachers/2008Standards/NETS_T_Standards_Final.pdf.
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