Tuesday, February 16, 2010
week 7-standards
I think the best way to use the GAME plan to help students become proficient in the NETS-S standards is to post them, let the students be aware of what we are trying to accomplish in class and then introducing them to new tools and allowing them the opportunity to use them to create a product that relates to the content standards. The GAME plan can help the teacher and student work together in accomplishing these standards. When setting our goals for our GAME plan, I think it would be beneficial to make sure each of the NETS-S standards are intertwined in accomplishing a product. Students can use these standards to monitor and evaluate their project to make sure it involves each standard. Meanwhile, teachers need to be learning the new tools so they can teach them and model them while at the same time modeling and instructing digital ethics and responsibility. Teachers need to continue to learn and grow in this area to help students deepen their understanding of technology and how to use it to create meaningful products. I think the GAME plan I set forth in previous blogs allows for each of us-the students and teacher (me)-to learn and grow together and allow each of us to accomplish both the NETS-T and NETS-S standards. I think as we allow students to use technology to create and produce their own products and as we continue to model ethics and direction, we are automatically implementing these standards for students.
Yesterday I began talking about and modeling the ethics needed in a project we are currently working on. It had not occurred to me before how important it was and how easy it was to do. You may want to not only post the standards but include them in rubrics created for the projects. That helps to reinforce their importance. Good thoughts presented.
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ReplyDeleteI think that posting the goals are a great way to show the students how important they are. You could go over them at the beginning of the year, but if they do not surface the rest of the eyar the students will not think about them and not take them seriously. I also agree that we as teachers have to keep up with our learning of the tools because if we are not comfortable with them then the students will not think that they should learn them as well.
Mike
Goals probably should be review weekly-even if they are posted. I agree incorporating them into a rubric would be very beneficial. Thanks for the thoughts!
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