Reflection of week 8 6713

I am excited to come off of summer break and use some of the things that we learned from this course. Things like the GAME plan I have developed and improved through the weeks of this course. I also believe the NETS-S, social networking and digital story telling will all become a large part of my curriculum and I am also going to try and involve my collagues as well. This will all be a big part of how I can help my students in the 21st century. We as teachers need to help them apply technologies that will help them become competitive in this technolgy challanged world. By using the GAME plan strategy in classes I feel that students will get more out of my classes. Using technologies and encouraging students to think deeper on their own will help them become better problem solvers.

Some of the immediate adjustments will be that I will have students learn and understand what online blogging and wiki sites can do for them and their education. I feel that showing the students from the skills of technolgy and stratagies of answering questions they will be stronger students. I want students to become more intrigued with questions and answers that will affect their lives and have them seeking knowledge.I think that using and showing technologies to them right now will help them time to become comfortable with the technology and also become more excited about the possibilities that exist. I would also like to do more cross curricular work with other teachers and form a bigger and stronger base for the students to work from.