My GOAL is to start a collaborative project between classes at my school, or within confides of my own students. The success will quickly spread and I will be glad to share the plans and pass it on.
My goals for my diverse students are to have them participate in a successful collaborative lesson that will teach creativity, as well as citizenship. By applying my knowledge, “Model Digital-Age Work and Learning” (NETS, 2008) and allowing students to build upon their existing technologies, together, collaboration projects can emerge. Considering the short time my art students attend my class, a meaningful and inspiring project that advances “student learning, creativity, and innovation” will be the ACTION to pursue.
Meeting the NETS-S and Performance Indicators for students will require me to design the lesson so that students “interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others” (ISTE). Any authentic, collaborate lesson that my students participate in will allow them to MONITOR their progress. As I practice weaving the ISTE standards into a few lessons, I evaluate my time management and the effectiveness of the technology used to foster learning. I learned these past few weeks of blogging, wiki sharing, and planning units that include collaboration and digital stories, that there will have to be a time allowance to practice “understand and use technology systems” (NETS-S). There are challenges due to technology limits, but if I take each mogul individually instead of all at once, Mrs. Perez’s students will develop several proficiencies in the NETS-S.
We all like the gold medal winners in the Olympics. They make it look easy, whatever their sport. However, we know that work and perseverance got them to where they are today.
Do you think creating a KISS lesson for Internet research and collaboration is the way to begin meeting the Technology Standards? I was thinking of having the student’s first practice working on a blog site for one class period before beginning the lesson. Alternatively, have my students use objectives to research blog sites and use to complete several operating tasks. I would appreciate your feedback.
(International Society for Technology in Education [ISTE], 2008)
The ISTE website provides national educational technology standards for students and teachers to meet (http//www.iste.org/).
http://www.iste.org/
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ReplyDeleteI think it’s a great idea to use the GAME plan with diverse students. I can see this being extremely useful for them especially at the high school level to prepare them for further education as well. I think that having the students start with the KISS lesson would be a great start. Once they get started however I would try to let them guide themselves as much as possible and just keep pointing them in the right direction when you see fit. You could have them even set the goals.
ReplyDeleteI think your idea of practicing the skills is perfect because the old adage of "practice makes perfect" is till true today. Your analagy of the olympic athletes provides the best example of this because none of those athletes got there without hard work and determination. The best thing that techonolgy brings to the table is its ability to be edited and changed along with its visually stimulating instruction. I think having your students to research and review existing blogs before they begin blogging would be the best way to start this activity. If you allow the first exposure to blogs to be one of practice rather than assessment then it will help the students to be more comfortable with experimenting. I always learn best by doing, and I have found that my students do also.
ReplyDeleteAgain Victoria your right on the ball. Your references to the olympics really sums it up. We all need to work harder to acheive success whether it is in our profession or with our families. It is a fun rollercoaster ride the ups and the downs only makes us true professionals and because of that our students will be watching a true champion.
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