This week I starting carrying out my GAME plan for is "collaborating with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation." (National Education Standards for Teachers (NETS-T).
The resources I need to use to implement my GAME plan are a computer with internet access, information on how to create a Wiki, a classroom Wiki, student and community involvement in using the Wiki for learning and communication purposes, and a classroom Moodle account. It will also be important to rely on the advice and experience of IT staff and fellow teachers use of Wiki’s and moodle accounts.
Areas that I need additional information on are how to best utilize a Wiki and moodle site and if the Wiki should be student run or teacher run? I also need to research more information on how to get students and community members involved with the Wiki and moodle account. I also need to know what kind of access students and community members have to the Internet.
In my quest to achieve my GAME plan I’ve created a basic classroom Wiki and included the objectives that I plan to accomplish using the Wiki. My classrooom Wiki can be found at http://mrgrayclassroom.wikispaces.com/.
Cennamo, Ross, and Ertmer (pg 97) stress creating student guidelines for technology-enriched learning environments and how having guidelines benefits students. I’m working on establishing rubics and guidelines for student participation on the classroom Wiki which will have students post comments on virtual field trips, take turns inputting the classroom agenda and homework assignments, and displaying student work.
Cennamo, K., Ross, J., & Ertmer, P. (2009). Technology integration for meaningful classroom use: A standards-based approach. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
National Education Standards for Teachers (NETS-T) retrieved from http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForTeachers/2008Standards/NETS_T_Standards_Final.pdf on
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
National Educational Technology Standards
The National Educational Technology Standards and Performance Indicators for Teachers provide direction for how to become a more effective educator. Teaching just like everything else of importance in the world is hard, and takes practice. There are always going to be areas that you can improve upon and it’s important to set teaching goals and create plans to achieve the goal. Technology is a large and growing component in education today. It is important that "Students should see their computer time as essential to their classroom work rather than an add on." (Cennamo, K., Ross, J., & Ertmer, p 102) To help show students technology is an educational tool I have made two National Education Technology Standard goals.
The first standard that I developed a GAME plan for is "collaborating with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation." (National Education Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). Collaborating with students, peers, parents, and community members helps establish a stronger rapport with the student and the student’s education support team. This team comprised of parents and community members can be combined with the teacher to create an educational alliance. To get students, peers, parents, and community members onboard with the student’s education plan good communication is vital. I plan to give parents access to our classroom moodle site to see what we are doing in class, view a homework assignment list, and be able to send comments or questions to the teacher. Being able to see what we are doing in class could result in having a parent or community member coming into the class to be the expert on a topic we are covering. Having an expert on the topic and educational support team member would make the learning more relevant to the students. I will monitor the amount of views from the moodle site and email contacts to assess the progress of the goal.
Another standard that I developed a GAME plan for is to "Model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments." (National Education Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). To accomplish this goal I plan to use interactive virtual field trips, have students use the VoiceThread application for a project, and have the students test out Second Life a virtual environment. Using an online moodle survey the students will be assessed to their thoughts on these types of educational experiences versus the traditional educational ways.
Cennamo, K., Ross, J., & Ertmer, P. (2009). Technology integration for meaningful classroom use: A standards-based approach. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
National Education Standards for Teachers (NETS-T) retrieved from http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForTeachers/2008Standards/NETS_T_Standards_Final.pdf on
The first standard that I developed a GAME plan for is "collaborating with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation." (National Education Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). Collaborating with students, peers, parents, and community members helps establish a stronger rapport with the student and the student’s education support team. This team comprised of parents and community members can be combined with the teacher to create an educational alliance. To get students, peers, parents, and community members onboard with the student’s education plan good communication is vital. I plan to give parents access to our classroom moodle site to see what we are doing in class, view a homework assignment list, and be able to send comments or questions to the teacher. Being able to see what we are doing in class could result in having a parent or community member coming into the class to be the expert on a topic we are covering. Having an expert on the topic and educational support team member would make the learning more relevant to the students. I will monitor the amount of views from the moodle site and email contacts to assess the progress of the goal.
Another standard that I developed a GAME plan for is to "Model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments." (National Education Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). To accomplish this goal I plan to use interactive virtual field trips, have students use the VoiceThread application for a project, and have the students test out Second Life a virtual environment. Using an online moodle survey the students will be assessed to their thoughts on these types of educational experiences versus the traditional educational ways.
Cennamo, K., Ross, J., & Ertmer, P. (2009). Technology integration for meaningful classroom use: A standards-based approach. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
National Education Standards for Teachers (NETS-T) retrieved from http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForTeachers/2008Standards/NETS_T_Standards_Final.pdf on
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Reflection
Supporting Information Literacy and Online Inquiry in the Classroom has been a enlightening class that has brought ideas and procedures that are necessary but not something that I would immediately plan on devoting time too. The most striking revelation I learned from the class is the importance of teaching students how to check the validity of a website. I had taken for granted the ability of students being able to assess the validity of a website and it was good to have resources on how to teach it. Using a mixture of reviewing the primary and secondary sources, the web address, links, and information on the website are all great ways to check a website for validity.
Creating a lesson focusing on the use of technology was a good experience into planning out an entire lesson. Planning out all the details such as the introductions, time commitments, and resources needed related well to actually lesson planning. I enjoyed finding all the inconsistencies in the Save the Rennet website and I can use some of my methods to teach students how to find inconsistencies. Going forward I plan to set aside some classroom time on a regular basis to institute technology integration by teaching and using new technology. I plan to accomplish this goal by staying up to date with information literacy and technology skills. I can do this by checking online for new technologies and by checking in with the school’s IT director on a monthly basis.
Creating a lesson focusing on the use of technology was a good experience into planning out an entire lesson. Planning out all the details such as the introductions, time commitments, and resources needed related well to actually lesson planning. I enjoyed finding all the inconsistencies in the Save the Rennet website and I can use some of my methods to teach students how to find inconsistencies. Going forward I plan to set aside some classroom time on a regular basis to institute technology integration by teaching and using new technology. I plan to accomplish this goal by staying up to date with information literacy and technology skills. I can do this by checking online for new technologies and by checking in with the school’s IT director on a monthly basis.
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