Wednesday, May 9, 2012


Developing a Personal GAME Plan

For this week’s application, we are to choose two indicators in the NETS-T and create a personal GAME plan (Cennamo, Ross & Ertmer, 2010) for each. 

The first indicator I chose was to 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 (ITSE, 2008).  This indicator is under the Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments standard.

My GOAL is to include technology in formative and summative assessments, making some use of technology an integral part of my students’ grades. 

The ACTIONS I will take to reach this goal is to find and use an online forum where students can respond to math reflections and engage in discussions similar to our Walden discussions, as well as take online quizzes and tests.

I will MONITOR my progress as I check for usability and ensure I am selecting the web service most beneficial to my students.

I will EVALUATE and EXTEND my learning as I assess how student learning has changed based on my use of technology and share my successes with my colleagues.

The second indicator I chose was to communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers using a variety of digital-age media and formats (ITSE, 2008).  This is under the Model Digital-Age Work and Learning Standard.

My GOAL is to find or create an online network where I can quickly communicate with students and parents.

The ACTIONS I will take are to evaluate websites, and to reach out to my Walden cohort and colleagues at work to survey websites that work. 

I will MONITOR my progress as I check for usability and ensure I am selecting the web service most beneficial to my students.

I will EVALUATE and EXTEND my learning as I assess how student learning has changed based on my use of technology and share my successes with my colleagues.

References:

Cennamo, K., Ross, J., & Ertmer, P. (2010). Technology integration for meaningful classroom use: A standards-based approach. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
International Society for Technology in Education. (2008). National education standards for teachers (NETS-T). Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/Libraries/PDFs/NETS_for_Teachers_2008_EN.sflb.ashx

4 comments:

  1. Michael,

    I enjoyed reading your GAME plan. Although I did not write about making use of technology an integral part of my students’ grades, I do feel that is an important concept I would like to address as well. I feel students would perform better if they were engaged when taking an assessment. Some of my students would think of it being more fun, than educational.

    Your second goal is one that I wrote about. i think it's importnat to keep open lines of communication with parents and students. Have you developed a website as one means of communication? I have a site through my district that I maintain. Although it is a great means of communication, the population it is for does not have the technology at home to take advantage of it. Would a website be beneficial for your student poopulation? I'd be curious to know.

    Your GAME plan sounds like it will help you to be more efficient incorporating technology into your daily lessons. Good luck with it.

    Tiffini

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    1. Hi Tiffini,

      I am looking into various ways to communicate with parents, and I keep coming back to Edmodo.com. From what I have seen, this may be the best solution for what my goal is in my second game plan. Thanks for the response!

      Mike

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    2. I also enjoyed reading your game plan. I chose the same indicators that you did; however wrote about them differently. My issue is that at least half of my students and families do not have access to technology at home. This makes communicating using technology very difficult for me. Does your school have any time of website where teachers have individual web pages on it? On my district site; all teachers have their own web page for students and parents. We can set it up however we like. We have the option of blogs, gradebooks, discussions, quizzes, etc. This might work really well for communication with parents.
      Traci Wilson

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  2. Hi Traci,

    Most of my parents have internet access at home, and I am curious to see how many parents would access a site set up by me. We do not have a domain set up for teacher web sites at our school, so I am finding something on my own not only for my own class but to also share with other teachers at my school.

    Thanks for the response!

    -Michael

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