GAME Plan

My GAME plan: This will be my guide to strengthening and gaining confidence in the areas I identified (Cennamo, Ross, and Ertmer, 2009).

Goal Setting: After reviewing the National Education Standards for Teacher (NETS-T) I identified two indicators that I would like to become more confident and proficient with.
Standard 2: Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments Indicator a: design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity

Standard 4: Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility Indicator a: advocate, model, and teach safe, legal, and ethical use of digital information and technology, including respect for copyright, intellectual property, and the appropriate documentation of sources

I selected “indicator a” from Standard 2 because I like that my growth in this area will directly impact and improve student learning and I felt “indicator a” from Standard 4 was a necessary area of growth as I integrate more technology into my lessons and student learning activities.

Actions: As one of my goals is to design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity, I will first review the content objectives and determine ways I can modify and revise the lessons to integrate technology that will enhance student learning experiences (Laureate Education Inc., 2009). This will ensure that the content remains at the forefront of student learning. The lesson planning process will be crucial to meeting this goal. As suggested by Cennamo, Ross, and Ertmer (2009) I will need to “explore the resources to determine what features align with instructional goals” (p. 105). I will determine how technology can best used to support the content objectives; as a tutor, a mindtool, or support for conversation (Cennamo, Ross, & Ertmer, 2009). I will also examine whether there are product options for students to demonstrate, personalize, and share their learning.
My second goal is to advocate, model, and teach safe, legal, and ethical use of digital information and technology, including respect for copyright, intellectual property, and the appropriate documentation of sources. To meet this goal I will need to teach by example, as I prepare learning resources for students I need to include appropriate citations. I also plan to use a combination of mini lessons on respecting ownership and citations with weaving these concepts through my lessons. I will integrate the use of graphic organizers into the research process. My hope is this will reduce the amount of direct resource copying my students do.

Monitoring my Progress: In order to monitor my progress for both of my goals, I will need to make my goals measurable. I plan to try to incorporate technology resources or tools into each of my oceanography lessons even if it is just providing non linguistic visuals to support learning. I also plan to track the number of different resources and tools I integrate to ensure that I use a variety. To monitor my goal of teaching my students ethical and respectful practices regarding technology and ownership, I plan to pre assess my students’ background knowledge on this subject and build mini lessons and lessons woven into the content study based on their needs identified in the pre assessment. I will incorporate citations and student wording into product rubrics to further encourage these practices in students and monitor how well my students are learning this.

Evaluating and Extending my Learning: I will evaluate how well I met my goals by reviewing my lesson plans and noting how often I integrated a technology tool or resource and how many different ways I used technology to enhance student learning. I will evaluate how well I modeled and taught my students to be responsible citizens concerning technology by administering a posttest to measure their growth (and mine) in this area compared to the pretest. To extend my learning and continue to develop my competency, confidence, and proficiency with these indicators I will engage in collaboration through this blog, discussion boards, and my school’s PLN on differentiation with technology. Additionally, as this class progresses I am sure I will learn about more technology resources and tools to support my development in these areas.

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.

Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2009). Integrating technology across the content areas. Baltimore: Davis, V.

National Education Standards for Teachers (NETS-T) located at http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForTeachers/2008Standards/NETS_T_Standards_Final.pdf.