Week 4 GAME-Plan Update

This week’s resources provided me with a tremendous amount of information about assessment. Dr. Ross discussed three steps for determining effective assessment, and this clearly outlined information helped a great deal. I learned that teachers need to identify learning objectives, determine teaching methods and lastly, choose technology to support both of the above in order to effectively determine what students learn. As a result of this information, I was able to identify the kind of assessment that works best with my student objectives and classroom instruction. Based on the fact that I instruct students to create projects, problem solve, and share their information, I learned from Cennamo, Ross, and Ertmer (2009) that performance-based and project-based assessment are a great way for my students to demonstrate mastery.

References

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. (Producer). (2009). Assessing Student Learning with Technology [Motion Picture]. Integrating technology across the content areas. Baltimore: Author.

Week 3 GAME-Plan Update

Last week I learned more about how I could monitor my progress by creating a checklist (Thanks, Amy G!) I found it interesting that I generate checklists and rubrics for my students quite often; however, I did not think about using one in my own NETS-T GAME plan.

This week’s resources helped me review summative and formative assessments, so I can check this off the list. However, I am going to need to draw some kind of concept map to align the assessments I do with content and technology standards. Basically, I need a graphic organizer to get a clear picture. I will definitely need to review chapter five of our course text in order to do this. (Yes, I am extremely visual!)

Currently I am in pursuit of a list of current and emerging digital tools that I would like to learn more about in order to inform and teach students. Specifically, I would like to learn about MovieMaker, so I can have my students create digital stories next school year.

Integrating Technology Across the Content Areas: Personal GAME Plan

My GOAL is to be more confident and proficient in the following two ISTE NETS-T standards:

Standard 2.d. states that teachers should “provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching.”

Standard 3.d. states that teachers should “model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning.”

My ACTION plan for meeting these standards is to break them down into steps and create a visual, so I can get a full picture of what I need to do. I will also review the difference between formative and summative assessments and discover multiple and varied forms of them via Walden resources, the Web, and getting feedback from colleagues. In addition, I will research current and emerging digital tools the same way. For example, in this week’s resources, Vicki Davis mentioned the Monster and Flat Earth projects, as well as Twitter, Classroom 2.0 and Classrooms without Borders. I may have heard of these; however, I have not tried using them to enrich students’ learning in the classroom.

I will MONITOR my actions by questioning whether or not I am finding the information I need and whether or not I need to modify my action plan as suggested by Cennamo, Ross, and Ertmer (2009).

Finally, I will EVALUATE and EXTEND my plan based on whether or not I have met my learning goals.

References

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. (Producer). (2009). Enriching Content Area Learning Experiences with Technology, Part 2 [Motion Picture]. Integrating technology across the content areas. Baltimore: Author.