Phase III

Standard 1 

During all three of my lesson plans I was able to promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness through the use of kidspiration and art. The students used kidspiration to make their own bar graphs and find their own data. The students created and colored the life cycles of a butterfly and the life cycle of a frog. I was able to promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes through having the students say what they knew about the topic already, what they wanted to know about the material, and then later after teaching the students the lesson what they learned. In the future I will engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources through incorporating social studies into my content lessons. This will introduce real world issues to the students as well as teach them how to solve issues around the world. I will do this through the use of online games and current events students could find online. In the future I will model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments by educating myself on the topic I will teach before hand to the class as well as informing my co-workers. I can also take the students on a field trip with another class.

Standard2

I designed or adapted relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity by having he students play online games that were both educational and entertaining. In the future I will develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress by choosing computer programs such a kidspiration that are educational, entertaining, and gives them the opportunity to save their progress. In the future I will customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources by having them create their own work online. For example, I will have the students create their own poster online using pixie for whatever material we covered in class. I was able to provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching by having the students use an online data base called kidspiration. The students had to create their own assessment and turn it into me.

Standard 3

In the future I will demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations by starting the children off on a simpler game and then getting them to a more challenging online game that is educational and pertains to the material being learned in class. I will for my future students collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation by sending out frequent emails to my student’s parents. I will communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers using a variety of digital-age media and formats through email and sending out online flyers that were made to give them information. I will model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning by showing the students how to properly research something online. I will tell them Wikipedia isn’t always credible.

Standard 4

I will advocate, model, and teach safe, legal, and ethical use of digital information and technology, including respect for copyright, intellectual property, and the appropriate documentation of sources by teaching the students to cite their sources.
I will be able to address the diverse needs of all learners by using learner-centered strategies providing equitable access to appropriate digital tools and resources by finding different websites that have online activities and games that cater to all types of students. I will promote and model digital etiquette and responsible social interactions related to the use of technology and information by teaching the students to never copy anyone else’s work without giving them credit. I will develop and model cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with colleagues and students of other cultures using digital-age communication and collaboration tools by showing the students other cultures way of using technology.