The student and teacher standards for technology both intertwine technology throughout all aspects of learning and everyday experiences. Both standards focus on creating digital citizens and using creativity to foster creativity. The standards require both students and teachers to be flexible and creative in using technology. They require persistence and patience with learning new things. Applying the standards often puts the teacher in the student’s shoes and vice versa.
Many students are familiar with making goals in sports, on New Years, and some even with school. One major benefit of teaching and implementing the G(goal) A (action) M (monitor) and P (plan) plan is to help students realize that it is okay to modify a goal, take small steps, or even change it all together. What is essential is to never lose sight of having a goal.
I plan to use the GAME plan when creating a classroom blog. For most students this will be their first experience with a class blog and also my first using one with students. We will both need to be creative; use critical thinking and problem solving, and we will all be digital citizens. We will use the class blog to collaborate and communication with another 4th grade classroom and each other. It should be a wonderful experience for all of us!
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Courtney,
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you are implementing technology in a very useful way with your forth grade class. I think it is great that you are having them create a blog. That is quite an achievement for 4th grade! Do they seem to struggle with these assignments?
Katherine E.
Courtney,
ReplyDeleteI agree that the GAME plan allows us and our students to go slow and steady with all of this technology. I think your students will love it when you introduce blogs. Perhaps their Goal will be to create a blog of their own, or perhaps it will simply be to post so many comments a month to their teacher's blog. Well done!
Lori
Courtney,
ReplyDeleteI think your class will love having a blog. Last year my daughter was in 4th grade and the had a class wiki. She loved it and towards the end of the year she ended up creating her own wiki about the Goosebumps book series. She had a lot of fun doing it and lot of her classmates visited it. It was a great experience for her and she still talks about it.
Alison D.
Courtney,
ReplyDeleteUsing the GAME plan to help with the classroom Blog is a great idea. I think that students will learn a lot from the experience and learn a lot about goal setting.
Thanks for sharing.
Kate
Hi All,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your posts. I plan to start by creating class blog together so that the students can see exactly what goes into creating and maintaing one. From there students will be required to post on certain topics throughout the year. I am thinking that a class wiki would be another possibility so that each student could have his or her own paga as Alison metioned her daughters class did. I am still planning how it will work.
Thanks for your feedback!
Courtney
Courtney,
ReplyDeleteI like how you relate these goals to setting sport goals. I think if you had the students think of it this way they may be more motivated. They could even have a baseball or football field they move a character to show where they are in accomplishing their goal.