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| Reflection Standard 3 | |||||
| Standard 3, Teaching, Learning and the Curriculum is the area wherein technology facilitators can be most beneficial to classroom teachers.� Being able to help teachers incorporate technology within the content areas and throughout the curriculum can help create authentic learning situations and lessons that address more learning needs.� Although there are many reluctant teachers out there who don't want to incorporate technology with their lessons, I believe that many would be more willing if they knew where to start.� | |||||
| The standard ensures that the technology facilitator is knowledgeable about sound teaching practices and methods, and not just tech-savvy.� My school has begun to do a better job in this area.� We have computer consultants, whose job has them focus on teaching programs, devices, and researching skills.� Over the past few years they have done a better job at trying to help the teachers incorporate their lessons through the curriculum.� The way it is done seems like an add-on though.� I do a lot on the three computers in my classroom.� It feels more natural and authentic when we use the computer or the digital camera or video components right in the classroom.� Computer lab time ends up feeling like another class rather than a resource and tool to help us learn. | |||||
| Through the past few years I have developed many lessons, units, and activities using the computer and other technologies.� A couple of them I have linked as artifacts for Standard 2 learning environments, but they also seem to fit well for this standard.� One is a unit on the Midwest that I developed for Using Integrated Software, which I also use as a class unit for social studies.� The other is unit that I created for Distance Learning which would help new teachers implement organizational and management techniques into their teaching.� Recently my students completed a health unit on bullying.� We did a lot of role playing and dialoguing about bullying situations, why they occurred, and how students get out of theses situations without anyone getting hurt.� This was to give students a vocabulary to use in situations that might arise.� From there the students wrote scripts which we eventually acted out.� We video taped them and as a class edited it and created a class bullying video which I can use next year to help teach other students about bullying.� I think that this unit fit well with the section of the standard that says technology facilitators use media-based tools within the curriculum. | |||||
| I have also created various computer scavenger hunts to help students develop research skills and to help reach many different learning styles.� I have included one on hurricanes that fits nicely within the social studies and science curriculums. I have also included a PowerPoint presentation that I used during a study of the Northeast. | |||||
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