Evaluating Your GAME Plan Progress

I feel my goals are slowly being met, but I am making progress. After last weeks post, I realized I need to get a move on developing more technology based lessons. I feel I did a lot earlier in the year, but stopped after I got super busy. On December 14th I have a meeting with the technology specialist at my school. At this meeting we are going to discuss different ways I can integrate technology in my class. My principal has provided a sub for me, so we can properly develop lesson plans using technology. He is going to help me do this, so I can be an example teacher at my school.

One of the main things I have learned in this class is how to use problem-based learning using technology. I have learned what problem-based learning was in a previous class, but really understand it now. I feel I have learned a lot of new ways I can use technology to incorporate problem-based learning. For instance, Cennamo, Ross, and Ertmer (2010) say “The availability of intuitive, user-friendly, video-creation software, such as Windows Movie Maker or iMovie, has also opened up a new avenue through which teachers and students can create meaningful projects that fuse images, music, video, and narration as they develop digital accounts of events in order to demonstrate their deep understandings of the topic” (pg. 297). I have used videos before, but they were just scripted by the students. I never took the time for students to create videos and then use computers to fuse aspects like music and narration. Before the end of the year, I plan on creating a lesson where students create a movie about a topic in social studies.