Teaching the Standards with Technology (please give my peers feedback)

PLEASE RESPOND (FEEDBACK) TO MY CLASSMATE/PEERS WORK BELOW:

By: Emily Mason

· How is technology guiding teacher instruction to ensure that our students are mastering the academic standards and their needs are being met?  Provide specific examples from the Jenkins article. *I could not find the Jenkins article on either EBSCO host or ProQuest and tried multiple different ways of searching and enlisted the help of my husband and he had no luck*

Teachers are using technology to aid students master standards by using technology to learn new and improved ways to teach students of multiple levels and ability. Technology also aids teachers by letting them use test scores and results to get data. This data helps teachers to see the progress over the school year and make change accordingly. This also allows us to compare and contrast different teaching strategies and see which ones work better than others.

· Discuss two to three ways that technology can be integrated into a teacher’s lesson plan to enhance student learning and meet individual student needs.  Include one example of interactive and assistive technology in your response.

Technology can be integrated into a teacher's lesson plan to enhance student learning and meet individual student needs would be to have students create a blog that they would post to (this of course would be for older students) and have students read and comment on their classmates blog. The blog would need to be about a specific topic. Another way to integrate technology would be to use the smart board and let students come up and use it when doing work. This would be very engaging and interactive for students to use. I have seen the smart boards used to do morning exercises and the students loved it. I think it would be great to use this with younger students and have a morning routine in which you do a calendar activity on the smart board as well as a warm up for the day that is counting money, a word game, etc...to get the students thinking and engaged.

· Share your personal comfort level using technology and the next steps you will take to increase your expertise in this area. 

I am very comfortable using technology considering I work in schools. I am used to using laptops, ipads, smart boards, etc... I would like to learn more about using smart boards since I really mostly know the basics.

 

Krogh, S., Fielstein, L., Phelps, P. & Newman, R. (2015).  Introduction to Education: Choosing     to Teach . San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.

By: Becky Mossman  

How is technology guiding teacher instruction to ensure that our students are mastering the academic standards and their needs are being met?  Provide specific examples from the Jenkins article.

A teacher can easily track a student’s progress throughout the year and identify areas where the student needs additional help and support by using technology.  Technology helps educators manage and lead learning with precision.  (Jenkins, 2005).

An example is using weekly quizzes on end- of-the-year standards.  Another example is first-grade teachers wanting students to be able to read 220 Dolch sight words by the end of the year can select 12-15 random words each week for students to read.  (Jenkins, 2005). 

Discuss two to three ways that technology can be integrated into a teacher’s lesson plan to enhance student learning and meet individual student needs.  Include one example of interactive and assistive technology in your response.

One way that technology can be integrated into a teacher’s lesson plan to enhance learning is to have study projects with students in other sites to learn about each other’s cultures, histories, daily lives, and interests.  Student blogging is another way to integrate technology into a lesson plan.  It gives the students a chance to write for a real audience, it creates an online community, it gives shy students a voice, and it allows students more time to reflect on their ideas before sharing.  Online educational games are another way to get technology into lesson plans.  Targeted games are rapid drill-and-practice games that give students repeated practice on a targeted subject.    (Krogh,2015).  An example of assistive technology is a large key keyboard with a key guard so that a student with a physical disability can use a computer to complete an assignment.

Share your personal comfort level using technology and the next steps you will take to increase your expertise in this area.

I feel comfortable using technology most of the time.  I know the basics for most of the devices that I use regularly.  I have many people in my life that are more than willing to help me learn more about technology.  I might get made fun of, or it might cost me a home-cooked meal, but it is worth it to continue learning.

Jenkins, L. L. (2005). The power of technology. School Administrator, 62(7), 23-25. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/219301610?accountid=32521

 Krogh, S., Fielstein, L., Phelps, P. & Newman, R. (2015). Introduction to education: Choosing to teach. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.