The most important part of my GAME plan for reaching the NETS-T is effectively facilitating authentic learning experiences so that my students can reach the National Educational Technology Standards- for Students (NETS-S). Authentic learning comes from real-world applications and technology tools to allow multi-level independent and collaborative thinking. Learning becomes authentic when it is taken into the hands of the students and combined with today’s 21st century tools such as:
· Wikis
· Blogs
· Podcast
· Virtual Gamming
· Digital Storytelling
· Online collaborations
Students are then connected to a network of peer learners and an authentic audience. Learning can go so much farther than beyond our classroom walls and students can express themselves in new and efficient ways. The National Education Technology Standards for teachers are all a part of my GAME plan and will help maintain that my teaching continues to grow and continues to extend new applications to my students. Students themselves can mimic my GAME plan to set goals, actions, moinitor and evaluate their progress towards reaching all of the NET-S. I would love to have my students blog at the end of the year about what projects helped them reach their NETS-S GAME plan and how they feel they can use these applications in other areas of their lives.
Amanda,
ReplyDeleteI think it would be very interesting to hear from students what projects helped them reach their goals, and especially how they might use the applications. It would be a different type of self reflection than how they performed, one that would be more meaningful in the long run for both your students and your classroom.
Christina O.
Amanda,
ReplyDeleteDuring the year you could also ask your students to create categories or tags for their blog posts if they are working on one part of their GAME plan. That way at the end of the year they could click on Action and see every time they considered they were working on their GAME plan. I've been trying to use categories to help my students track their blog post for certain components and make them searchable at the end of the year. This year I have been doing a better job and I can see how valuable it will be for our parent, student, teacher conferences.
Andy
Andy
Thanks for the feedback! I think the using tags in their reflections would help my end of the year reflecting. It will also really help me when thinking into the next year.
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