Carrying out my GAME plan

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As I further my exploration into applying technology into my classroom content, I developed a GAME plan that will focus my teaching. This week I am looking at the progress of my GAME plan. 

 

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments.

Teachers: promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.

4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility

Teachers understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture and exhibit legal and ethical behavior in their professional practices.

Teachers:

Promote and model digital etiquette and responsible social interactions related to the use of technology and information.

 

In carrying out my GAME plan, I will need to use my colleagues at my school, as well as within my personal network. Students will also need to learn how to appropriately respond to content online. By teaching lessons that include an online comment portion, students may safely practice and apply what we are learning in school. The use of blogs, wikis, and other collaboration tools will need to be at done at school, as there is a limited amount of technology available at students’ homes. This will require that students will need access to the laptop cart that is shared with the other 600 students at our school.

Before beginning this process, I need to clarify any permission forms that need to be signed by parents. Our district has a form that students need to sign before using the computer, but it is not clear about what and how students’ material is used online. Many of the struggles I am currently facing is the inevitable time. With so many mandates that already fill my time, I am struggling with fitting my GAME plan within my schedule. One of the things I need to do is to look at how I can use collaborative tools within my electricity unit, as well as giving them problem-based learning activities to challenge students to work together to solve a real-life problem. It is a challenge for third grade students to communicate in type, yet another goal of mine is to work on their keyboarding skills, or at least a beginning understanding of the keyboard layout.

So far, in my class we have talked about being appropriate online, and how to comment respectfully. Students have explored the creative side of www.kerpoof.com and I have plans to allow for the chat portion in the near future. We have a long way to go!