Final Blog Post

Creating a GAME Plan forced me to focus on the NETS, standards for technology education. I have learned the importance of responsibility in the use of information and technology. This will have an immediate impact on my teaching practices. I will model proper resource references in my lessons. Another immediate change I am making as a result of my GAME Plan is a Google site to be used as a means of communicating information to students and parents. This will enable students and parents to see what the class is doing, what absent students have missed, where sources for extra help can be centrally located and where students and parents can contact me.

As a result of learning ways to integrate technology in the content area, I would like to have my students use problem-based learning such as the matrix webquest. I would like to see my students use blogs as a way to reflect on their learning and as a way to use collaboration between classes. Using technology for some units may increase learning and retention. I know that this process will take time as I explore how and when technology should be integrated in the mathematics curriculum. Setting goals, assessing, monitoring and evaluating them will help me with this process.