Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Monitoring Your GAME Plan Progress
As I think about ways to use technology in an elementary PE setting I come up with more and more ideas. I think that as I orginally thought about this, I was getting too complecated. I don't think that it needs to be that complex. Even using pedometers for students to monitor effort levels is a great way of integrating technology into the gym. I don't know that I need to modify my action plan but I do think that I need to refine it. I need for my action plan to become more directed at the outcome that I want technology to have on my students in my classes. I've learned that students want to use technology. It is a great way to gain our students attention, and hold that attention. If I can use technology to gain my students interest I think that in the long run that it will help my studnets to learn more and become more interested in our content areas. This is an ever changing process, it is dynamic. It never really done, it keeps changing and evolving though the learning process.
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Ryan,
ReplyDeleteI love the way you incorporate a chart to show the students how far they have walked with their pedometers. I too, use pedometers with my 4th and 5th grade students and many of them, to my surprise, have since gone out and purchased their own pedometer. You are right when you mention that students love technology, and get excited when they see it used in class.
One of the other teachers in our masters program gave me a great suggestion about different ways I could grow my GAME plan, which I think could also help you. They mentioned teaming up with the math teacher and tying together math with my unit using pedometers. In math, they could use charts, graphs, ratios, etc. with the pedometer results they are obtaining in my Physical Education class. This is just another idea that I thought might help you with your GAME plan, too.