Reflection of Game Plan: Week 8

As I reflect on the Game Plan that I have being implementing with my students, I am still excited about my students blogging and sending emails to each other about their work. My co-teacher and I have come to a conclusion that the blog post and the emailing can be used in our classroom as a summarizer of that day's lesson. I am so excited about that point. The students have been making power points, learning about doing digital story telling and having a ball emailing each other about their work. I really love the students' enthusiasm about their work and how they are really learning everyday about technology. My plan is to take my students to whatever level they need to function for a future 21st century technology life.

As I look at my instructional practices I am very inspired that I have been able to facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity, because my students are very excited about learning more about blogging and they have already started. I still trying to get others in the school involved with the process of teaching our students how to promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility when it comes to Internet practice. Our school now has a school wide letter about student email and Internet practice so we are all on the same page with that effort. My students are still set to present their blog site to our parents at our parent meeting in November. I am very excited about getting the parents involved and allowing the students to display their learning.

One area that I will definitely focus on more is the digital story telling. But, at this point, all of my Game Plan has been very effective. Since there are no immediate changes, I will follow my Game Plan as written. The students are well on their way to learning great things about technology.

Game Plan with My Students: Week 7

As I sit and think about how I will be able to use the game plan with my students, I can't help but remember what our text book tells us about implementing and following through with a successful game plan. According to Cennamo, Ross, & Ertmer (2009) the GAME plan is a four step guide to help teachers and their students become better self-directed learner. The GAME plan requires you to think about and take steps to direct your learning process, specifically while learning about technology and how to integrate it into your curriculum each and everyday. I can't but think about the word proficiency, which forces us as educators to prepare them everyday and give them the opportunity to use technology daily so they can get better and better with it.

According to http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-students: I will continue to work with my students in the following areas:
•Demonstrate creativity and innovation
•Communicate and collaborate
•Conduct research and use information
•Think critically, solve problems, and make decisions
•Use technology effectively and productively.

As I continue to prepare my students future which is going to be fully 21st century by the time they are adults, it is imperative that our students know how to function properly in each of these areas on a daily basis. My students must know how to work collaboratively and cooperatively in groups and at the same time remain proficient in these areas.

Lastly, the game plan is a great process for allowing you to stay consistent with a plan and see it completely through. Since it is such a great tool for teachers, it will allow me to continue using the process to prepare my students for future technology work.

Revising My Game Plan: Week #6

As I take a look at my Game Plan, I have not had to revise much at all, except again for the time effort of getting a lot done in such a short period of time. The aspect of Social Networking has played a very big part in the developing of my Game Plan as a whole. Again, I have already developed my student's Blog spot (www.mathsciencesandbox.blogspot.com). We are going to practice next week blogging about the past semester as practice of how to blog correctly. I will be able to manage this, because the students will be able to blog about their own progress.

1. What have you learned so far that you can apply in your instructional practice?

As I look at my instructional practices I am very inspired that I have been able to facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity, because my students are very excited about learning more about blogging and they are eager to get started. Another area in my instructional practice was to get others in the school involved with the process of teaching or students how to promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility when it comes to Internet practice. Our school now have a school wide letter about student email and Internet practice so we are all on the same page with that effort. My students are set to present their blog site to our parents at our parent meeting in November. I am very excited about getting the parents involved and allowing the students to display their learning.

2. What goals are you still working toward? I am still working on trying to get all of my letters back from my students so they can all participate on the blog spot. I made a host of phone calls this past week to remind the parents to send those letters back so all students can be involved in such a great learning experience.

3. Based on the NETS-T, what new learning goals will you set for yourself? My new learning goals now would be for my students to use technology effectively and productively, also learn how to communicate and collaborate.

4. If you are not ready to set new learning goals, how will you extend what you have learned so far? With our new blog spot, as a community we are ready now to extend our learning.

5. What learning approaches will you try next time to improve your learning? The next step that we will take as a learning community is to learn how to conduct research and use that information to think critically, solve problems, and make decisions.

Evaluation of My GAME Plan.............

I am so glad that I am finally finished setting up my blog page for my students. You will simply love the website (http://mathsciencesandbox.blogspot.com). It is taking me a little time to get my students started with the blogging, however, I hope to accomplish that some time this week. I am extremely excited that my epals letters went home, I am actually about to have all of them turned back in. YEAH!!!!!!!

I believe my effectiveness with meeting my goals started our moving a little slow, but it really has picked up a lot for me at this time. I would like to mention that my students are really excited about this adventure. As we speak to our students on a daily basis about not giving, up I have learned to apply to my instructional practices not to give up. Sometimes, things will move slow or even get held up, but the point to remember is always strive to stay productive and never give up. I definitely have learned that you have to keep everyone that you need involved up to notice, because if someone that is apart of you plan is not aware of what is going on, it will slow down your process. I have not had any questions to arise at this time, however, that does not mean questions will not come up in the future.

My current needs are most important to me. The way I am going to adjust my plan right now is time constraints. I have to adjust my time effort in order to meet all of the goals that are intended. If I am stay focus, I know I will meet all necessary deadlines and my GAME Plan will be effective.

Checking Back on the Game Plan..........

As I look back on my game plan, I am finding much of the information that is needed. My group has been very helpful with websites that I am not able to find. Also, I am getting my forms back in from my students very well. I think the students don't want to be left out of the fun with the website.

Modification:

I may need to look at the fact of whether or not I receive a permission form back or not per my game plan team. Thanks for their help.

What Have I Learned:

I have learned that this is a tedious process. I am trying to make sure everything is in place so my students can really benefit from this. However, I am trying to take a long look at everything and make sure every step is being followed through.

Questions that have arised:

What do I do when students don't bring their permission form back?
What happens when I have a student that violates the internet ethics?
What happens when my principal has a problem with the process?