GAME Plan Reflection

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