Throughout this course I had the
opportunity to develop and work on a personal GAME plan for integrating
technology into my classroom. I decided to focus on increasing my confidence in
two indicators of standard one, “Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and
Creativity,” (ISTE, 2008). During this course I worked on finding ways to
better integrate indicators a and b into my instruction (indicator b. engage
students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using
digital tools and resources, indicator c. promote student reflection
using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students’ conceptual
understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes), (ISTE,2008).
As I progressed through each week’s learning
activities, I began to find more ways to use technology as a means for students
to engage in authentic learning activities and collaboration. I particularly focused on creating authentic
learning activities and collaboration into my mathematics instruction. I learned ways to incorporate digital
storytelling and blogging while learning math content. I am
excited to use these tools to help my students to collaborate and solve
authentic problems this coming school year.
I plan to continually reflect on my GAME plan as I try new technology
tools and lessons for collaborating and authentic problem solving
activities.
Before this course I had heard
about digital story telling but didn’t really know what it was and how to use
it. After taking this course I have so
many ideas on how to use digital story telling in my classroom. I plan to teach my students how to make a
digital story the first week of school through creating an “All About Me” story
of themselves. Once students are
comfortable creating digital stories I plan to have them create, solve,
collaborate on and share story problems in mathematics.
References
International Society for Technology in Education.
(2008). National education standards for teacher (NETS-T). Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/Libraries/PDFs/NETS_for_Teachers_2008_EN.sflb.ashx
