This is the last blog post of EDU 533 and I have broken it into two parts as the assignment was broken down. I hope that makes it easier to understand.
Part 1:
3. Design meaningful and authentic digitally based learning experiences with multiple and varied assessments.
Objective 3 was met with the creation of our final project of a Webquest and during the creation of our Lesson plan by the artificat with had the students create.
6.
Illustrate through application how state and national standards are
implemented within the curriculum (e.g., NH Curriculum Frameworks, ISTE
(NETS-Teacher/NETS-Student) and NH-ICT Literacy Standards for K-12
Students (306.42))
Objective 6 of the Course Objectives was accomplished by the ISTE (NETS for Students), Common Core Standards, and the NH-ICT Standards that we sited in both our Individual Lesson Plans, our group lesson plans, and our Webquests.
7.
Demonstrate an understanding of the use of adaptive technologies and
other digital resources to personalize and differentiate
learning activities for every student
Objective 7 was met with the accommodations that were listed in our Lesson plans and through the reading that we did on Week 8 of the Course.
8.
Evaluate, adapt and reflect on emerging tools and trends by
participating in local and global learning communities and by
reviewing current research and professional literature.
Objective 8 was met in two different parts of this course. We reviewed literature in the Literature Review in the very first weeks of the course. We participating in a local and global learning community during week 9, when we participate in the Global Education Conference as a class.
Part 2:
I believe that Teachers need to integrate technology into the lessons they teach, no matter what the age of the students are. The more often we get technology in the hands of our Students the more comfortable they become with the technology. Not all of our students will have access to technology at home. When we integrate technology across subject matter, technology becomes a tool for children to use to learn rather than the lesson. As discussed in What does Technology Integration Mean?, the more technology is used the more seamless its appearance in the classroom is. The Barriers to technology integration are Budgetary issues; how much can a district afford to spend on technology every year, what is the cost associated with the infrastructure to be a technology rich learning environment, what is the cost associated with maintaining technology rich learning environment, and what is the cost of education your teachers to be comfortable with the technology that their digital native students are comfortable with; Social Barriers; the mind set that the education I got worked for me, it should work for my children, teachers being fearful of their students ease with technology and the educators nervousness about technology and not having all of the answers; and the pressure on teacher to get their students where they need to be to take NECAPS or soon the Smarter Balanced Test. I found the article Shaping tech for classroom really help explored this topic and brought up lets work with the students and see how they feel and what they think want to learn and how they want to learn. Often in education we hear about the home/school partnership. This article raised a great question for me. Have we ever thought about making the student a partner in their education.
Many of the Web 2.0 tools, we learned about in this class will help technology integration in our schools.
These tools are great examples of tools teachers can use for free to help their students learn. I think one of the problems in education right now is that many teachers are not exploring the Web 2.0 tools that are available to them. I also believe that as teachers find these tools they need to share them with each other. All of the tools that we used had no cost associated with them and this would help teacher access resources without a cost associated with them.
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