Connecting Standards and Lessons with Technology

(Reflective Essay #1)

As this lesson is geared toward changing the perspective of technology with teaching, it also withheld many other frameworks such as the Modeling of Digital-Age Work and Learning (ISTE 2008), which aligns with the Standard in which it models and facilitates effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate and use information resources to support research and learning.

I have learned that when integrating technology into your lesson you must have a purpose. There cannot just be a task to use it, and then have no specific reason for using it. The example used in this lesson planning was that we effectively use a digital spreadsheet as an end result to our lesson. With the digital spreadsheet data our task was to have our students evaluate something specific. If the students were unable to evaluate something then our integration of the digital spreadsheet towards our lesson plan would be useless, thus without a purpose.

The new technology I learned had broaden and made my activity experience less tedious. I learned that there are more than one Browser and one Search Engine. I used a newly downloaded Browser, FireFox, to help with my searching and multi-Web tasking, using Tab Browsing. I also used a more tapered search engine for faster results rather than the traditional Google. All of which helped make my lesson activity much easier. The task of creating a blog and posting our lesson plan and reflective essay was probably the easiest and exciting part of the lesson, because then my lesson is posted for others to see (Blogger).

What I liked least about the activity was coming up with a lesson that would have an outcome with the spreadsheet, and then incorporating it with my content area, young learners, and being creative all at the same time was a bit challenging. What I liked most about the activity would be learning that you have to have a purpose to the technology you are integrating in order for your students to fully understand the uses of that specific form of technology, because if your students do not know the reason behind the technology then you would not effectively be teaching anything but to obtain data and post it. I have learned through this lesson that not only can we connect Standards to our lessons but we can also incorporate Technology.



International Society for Technology in Education. (2008) The ISTE- National Educational Technology Standards (NETS*T) and Performance Indicators for Teachers.(2008)Website:http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForTeachers/2008Standards/NETS_T_Standards_Final.pdf

Blogger. Amber- Connecting Standards and Lessons with Technology. (February 2009). Website: http://atajalle.blogspot.com/