Now that I have developed my GAME plan for teaching my students to be better digital citizens and to increase my use of technology tools in learning activities I need to identify the resources and additional information I need to make my GAME plan a reality (ISTE, 2008). Additionally, I need to assess my progress in my newly created GAME plan.
Resources: The resources I will need to carry out my plan include creating the pre and post assessments on concepts related to digital citizenship like citing sources and plagiarism. The data from the pre-assessment will guide my mini lessons to develop these skills. I plan to bookmark my division’s Appropriate Use Policy and the Code of Behavior so students can review this information from the primary sources. I plan to introduce students to
http://citationmachine.net/ and show them how to use this tool to cite sources using the division’s adopted format; MLA. The main resources I will use to incorporate technology tools into my lessons are the curriculum, my lesson plans, and my school’s technology resource teacher. Using backwards design, I will identify what I want students to be able to do and then I will select tools with suggestions from the technology resource teacher to support that.
I would like to become more proficient in several of the technology tools including web page design and digital storytelling. I will start by using tutorial programs and then seek additional clarification from the technology resource teacher at my school. I have found several possible tutorials I plan to try. If they are effective, they may be possible resources for my students as well. As Cennamo, Ross, and Ertmer (2009) explain, “You can actually use technology to learn more about technology” (p. 10).
http://www.tech4learning.com/webblender/training
http://presentationsoft.about.com/od/classrooms/Classroom_Presentations_and_Lesson_Plans.htm
Additional Information: To remain up to date about possible technology tools to incorporate and ways to incorporate them I will continue attending my school’s Professional Learning Network on Using Technology for Differentiation. I will search for Internet resources to incorporate into my lessons as well.
Current Progress: It has only been one week since I developed my GAME plan but I have made some progress. I not only added citations to a SmartBoard lesson I created but I pointed them out to my students and commented on ownership and the importance of citation.
I incorporated two technology tools into my lessons last week aside from the lesson on the SmartBoard. I used a podcast so students could hear content information on ocean currents as well as see the information written on paper. The first time students listened I encouraged them to just visualize the information and make pictures in their minds of what they were hearing. The second time, I encouraged students to follow along on their papers. This information was written at a higher grade level and the podcast provided appropriate scaffolding and extra support to my auditory learners. My students who need more processing time had the option of listening to the podcast additional times. I also used this as an opportunity to briefly show students how it was created.
I found a video clip from Discovery Streaming that provided background knowledge prior to a cooperative learning problem solving activity about building a bridge. This brief clip leveled the playing field for students who had not had a lot of prior experiences with structures and served as a review for my expert builder students.
Cennamo, K., Ross, J. & Ertmer, P. (2009). Technology integration for meaningful classroom use: A standards-based approach (Laureate Education custom edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
Classroom resources, presentation tips and lesson plans. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://presentationsoft.about.com/od/classrooms/Classroom_Presentations_and_Lesson_Plans.htm
Landmarks son of citation machine. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://citationmachine.net
National Education Standards for Teachers (NETS-T) located at http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForTeachers/2008Standards/NETS_T_Standards_Final.pdf
Webblender 2. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.tech4learning.com/webblender/training
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Do No Harm
2 years ago
Hi Carolyn,
ReplyDeleteI believe you have gotten a great start to your GAME Plan. I particularly enjoyed your mini-lesson on Appropriate Use Policy and Code of Behavior is a great way to have students become more aware of how to give credit when conducting research on the web. In the past I have also used the citationmachine.net as a tool for students to use in generating proper resource pages. This is a great way I believe for you to communicate important information to your students.
Thanks,
Lynda
Lynda,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your feedback. I think if students learn how to cite sources efficiently they will be more likely to do this important step, which is the goal.
Carolyn Doyle
Carolyn,
ReplyDeleteSounds like you have taken some good first steps to your plan. Thanks for sharing the link for citations. I think when students are first starting out with citations, it is better to get them into the simple habit of doing it before bogging them down with the proper format. Your website I think meets that need.
Magan
From Jered Phillps,
ReplyDeleteCarolyn,
Your plan sounds very good. when you quoted Cennamo in saying "you can actually use technology to learn more about technology" you make a great point, students can use the tutorials and help menus to learn about a program or software much easier that to have a whole group lesson and have it drag out for those students who already understand alot of the functions. They can then enrich their experience by exploring more options of their interest.
I like the resources you provided for the citations. Thank you very much.
Jered Phillips
Magan and Jered,
ReplyDeleteI use the citation tool myself, especially as a check to make sure I'm using the format correctly. What I really like about online tutorials is the ability to go back and revisit, if necessary to better understand how to use the technology tools.
Thanks for your comments!
Carolyn Doyle
Carolyn,
ReplyDeleteI love the citation tool you are using. It is really helpful for students since citation is such a hard thing to complete. I, also, use a scavenger hunt to have students various items they need in citation, like authors, publishers, etc. I have them use various types of text, like web pages, texts, and journal entries. This really seems to help them identify the items they need when using citation tools.
-Carrie Young
Students must understand and relate that a good citizen is also a good digital citizen. That there are rules and regulations in the use of some materials available in the WWW. Some times is so easy and tenpting to just copy and paste, or download music from the internet that our student’s ethical values must be extended to the cyber world.
ReplyDeleteI used discovery streaming with my kindergarden class as well. It ia a great tool to use for students to see the "big picture".
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