This course has been a rough one for me. I have been away at my parents for much of the summer and only check my course work two times a week. However, I believe I have managed to take a few important things from this class.
I want to say that I made modifications to my personal learning theory, and I'm sure that I have, but nothing that would directly contradict my first application. I now place a little more value on constructivist learning theory. I want my students to construct their knowledge in my classroom. They can do this through project based learning activities, and through group projects. Things like summarizing/note taking and cooperative learning have influenced how I will plan and manage my lessons. (Pitler, Hubbell, Kuhn, Malenoski, 2007)
As of right now, I have no immediate changes to make. It's summertime and there are no students! Seriously though, I want to build in more group activities for my classes that can handle them. My other classes I want to work with so that we progress towards being able to handle group learning activities. I want to focus instruction based on project completion so that my students can explore and freely construct their own meaning. I plan on switching my lesson plans so that they incorporate more of each of these things.
I suppose the above are both my immediate and my long term goals. Technology in the classroom is an important concept, but its even more important to understand how the technology is affecting students. I think that this is the key to a successful, technologically integrated, classroom.
References
Pitler, H., Hubbell, E., Kuhn, M., & Malenoski, K. (2007). Using technology with classroom
instruction that works. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.
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