EDUC-6715I-6 Reflection

There are many new and exciting ways to help our students learn, and much of that comes from the integration of technology. Technology in itself is pretty amazing but when brought into the classroom it can provide an endless array of possibilities. Our students can use their creativity while using technology, it can make an otherwise quiet students voice louder. Our students love doing new and exciting things in school and technology is dynamic and ever-changing. We can keep our students motivated to learn because of technology. Going through this course and the program as a whole has given me new tools to use in my class to help my students become more successful and involved learners.

EDUC-6714I-2 Reflection

I think that as I have gone through this course that it has brought some things back that I may have forgotten to think about when it comes to my students. It is important that we as teachers do what is best for our students. Being familiar with our students backgrounds as well as their previous successes and failures, will help us to teach our students in the most effective way. All of our students learn differently, and it is our job to find a way to help them learn. Technology can aid in DI and help to make the learnig process more efficient for our students. All of our students want to learn, it is our job to find out the best way for them to learn and teach them that way.

Course Management System

Reflection

One thing that this current course has done for me is to make me think about how I can use technology in my gym to help my students to become better learners and more excited about learning. The use of pedometers is just a beginning and one way to use technology in my classes. I think that there are many extensions that can come from using a pedometer. We can begin to chart our results using a spread sheet, we can use a flip camera to shoot video of different exercises we can do using the pedometers and post them on our website. I think that starting with something that seems so simple can lead to many other uses of technology in the gym. Not to mention that it is a great motivator for students to become more active, which is the reason we teach PE in the first place. I think that there are many useful ways to use technology in the gym. Kids are intrigued by technology, and if I can use it to gain their attention I owe it to the students to do that. As educators we need to have "a bag of tricks" that help our students to become more engaged and better learners.

Using the GAME Plan Process with Students

Our students need to be able to use technology in their lives and will continue to need to be able to use it in the future. I'm not sure that there are many jobs out there that don't use technology in some way, shape or form. I think the more we introduce and use technology with our students the better chance they have at being more successful in the future with technology. Even using and charting something that seems simple, like pedometers, I believe gives them an advantage. Students need to know how to use technology not only in school but in their everyday lives.

Revising Your GAME Plan

Making sure that our students are learning what we are trying to teach them is the most important job we have as teachers. Our students learn in different ways, and we have to make sure that we do our best to reach each and ever one of them. I am still trying to find ways to get this done. Doing this while try to integrate technology at the same time makes this an even more difficult task. I know that my students love using technology and I believe that it helps them to learn more efficiently. I want to introduce as much technology into my class as possible. One thing I have learned in this process though, is to take my time and make sure that it is technology that is helping my students learn and not just technology for technology sake. I want to make sure that I try to keep extending the learning process of my students. I think that it is important that I get feedback from my students on what they like and don't like about the technology that I am trying to introduce into my class.

Evaluating My GAME Plan Progress

As I think more and more about my "goals" for my game plan, that this will be an on going process that is ever changing. I think that I will always be growing and changing what I am doing in my class. I think that this goes for all teachers that care about their students growth and development. The use of pedometers is a PE setting can help to motivate students and can also help students with there own goal setting when it comes to fitness. I also think that using pedometers is a great way to teach our students about respect and responsibility. They have to use them in the correct way so that they will be able to be used for a while. I think that I have some good ideas on how to use pedometers but by no means do I know everything or have every idea. This is where collaborating with other PE teachers comes into play. As teachers we steal ideas from one another all the time. If someone has something good, take it and use it. Again, I think that this is an ever-changing process. I am sure that it will be modified from year to year and even class to class. I think that this process is what makes good teachers.