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.