What have you learned so far that you can apply in your instructional practice? What goals are you still working toward?
I feel that throughout this master's program, I have learned so many new thing that I can apply to my teaching practice. Right now I am seriously considering using a social networking site to have my students submit assignments to on a regular basis. I cannot remember the name of one that my cousin is using in her classroom, but she said that it is set up much like facebook, but is a safe site that students can only use after being given a password from the teacher. This could be used in so many ways in the classroom. I am looking forward to implementing it into my classrooms second semester! I still have so many goals to work towards meeting. I want to be a teacher who truly puts to practice this new knowledge that I am gaining in my master's courses, so I have a lot of work to do to make my instruction the best that it can be!
Based on the NETS-T, what new learning goals will you set for yourself?
Since I feel that I still have not truly met the goals that I set for myself in the first place, I am not ready to set new goals for myself.
If you are not ready to set new learning goals, how will you extend what you have learned so far?
Again, I hope to begin using the social networking site in my classroom. I also hope to implement new technology-based activities into my classroom each 9 weeks.
What learning approaches will you try next time to improve your learning?
To improve my learning, I think I need to spend more time really learning about different web sites that are available for me to use in my classroom and I also need to spend a significant amount of time determining exactly how I want to implement them into my classroom, making sure that everything I do in the classroom is intentional, and nothing is just "fluff." I want to have a yearlong plan that outlines how I will use technology specifically in each class to teach the standards and keep students engaged and interested in the learning process at the same time. I am excited about all of the possibilities that these new technologies bring!
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Sally,
ReplyDeleteyou and I have common goals. I believe that I too would like to implement technology into my lesson plans for a purpose. It would be nice to plan out a whole year and math activities to the state standards. I would encourage you to keep using technology whenever you can even if you may not specifically plan it as you would call fluff. The more you use technology and the more students see it, the more it will have an impact and really make a difference when it is used with complete activities.
Great plan.
Sally, I really do agree that there are so many new stuff that we have learned about technology. I am sometimes confused in a good way, because I want to try all of them, but do not know which to use at times.You will meet the goal you have set; it will take time. I believe most of us if not all believe we do not have enough time because we have many activities to deal with that become so overbearing.
ReplyDeleteThere ia a new site I learned about lately, you might want to take a look at it.It is Engrade.com try it out.
Sally,
ReplyDeleteIt's true that we've gained so much knowledge from our course work here at Walden. I really feel that if you don't use it, you will lose it. The week we were taught Voicethreads, I incorporated them into an actual classroom lesson. I now feel comfortable with this technology. I was discussing the Walden program with a colleague of mine that also complete his Masters here. He said he really regrets not following through on all the technology tools he learned along the way. I feel we are really armed and ready to teach in the 21st century, but we have to be confident enough to continue to try new things.
Thanks for all of the encouragement and suggestions! I really appreciate hearing some positive feedback.
ReplyDeleteSally Moore