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Project # 13

Project # 14 Lesson Plan

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Project 12: Part B

Project 12 Part B
Smartboard Lesson

Blog Post #13 What Did I Leave Out?

Blog Post #13

As a future educator, what technology would you like to incorporate in your classrooms and how would you use it? List a minimum of 3 pieces of technology that you would like to use. Include a brief description for each and a description of how you will incorporate these into your lessons.(YOU MAY CHOOSE ANY ELEMENTARY EDUCATION GRADE LEVEL K-6.) 

*Be specific, as you will be teaching a lesson using one of your technologies as a future EDM 310 Project* 

This blog post is to be done individually. 

Here are some websites listed below to assist you in your planning:

12 Ways to Use Technology in Your Classroom 

Education World: Integrating Technology 

Elementary and Middle School Resources 


Upon completion:

• Post to your blog. 
• Post link in Sakai under assignments. 

Completed Version of Assignment

Blog Post #13

Grade Level: 4th Grade 

As a future educator, I plan to incorporate a good amount of technology into my lessons on a daily basis. I think that technology heightens a students learning capabilities, it allows for teachers to teach more effectively, and it makes the information being taught more relevant to the students.

 Four ways that I would like to integrate technology into my lessons includes: 

1. Smart-board: I have recently learned how to work a smart-board, and find this piece of technology to be very useful. I would like to use this piece of technology on a daily basis as a way for me to teach math lessons. As we all know, math is a very sore subject for many students, including myself. A-lot of the problem, in my opinion, is that the students are not getting enough interactive learning during math lessons. That is why I would love to teach my math lesson on a smart-board. This will give students much more opportunity to learn interactively rather than just watching the instructor do problems on the board. I would like students to be able to come up to the smart-board and do parts of the problem themselves. 
2. Ipad/Computer: Since Apple has released the I-pad, they seem to be getting more and more popular within schools. This probably has to do with how much they have to offer in the world of learning. Their are so many educational applications that can be of assistance to students on this device. One particular way that I would like to use the I-pad in my classroom would be to use the Weather Channel App on a daily basis. I would have my students come in and have a seat at their desks with their I-pads/computers (given that the school has this technology.) The students will then be given 5-7 minutes to search the city of their choosing and briefly share with the class about their weather. 
3. Blogging Websites: I have never blogged until EDM 310. I never really knew much about it either. Since I have started blogging I have become more and more interested in it as well as integrating it into the classroom. I would like to have my students blog at-least once, maybe twice a week. I would provide my students with a list of things that we had learned for the week, and it would be their jobs to write blog about the lessons and to describe some of the things that they learned. 
4. Skype: I have used Skype occasionally and found it to be very resourceful. I would like to use this particular tool in order to connect my students to other students in other parts of the United States, as well as global. I would also like to connect my students with other teachers as well...Example: My lesson is on Plants and the ecosystem; I might contact a botanist and have them do a Skype call with my classroom before or after the lesson. This would give students the chance to hear the information from someone different, which might make more of an impact.  

I think that all of these forms of technology would be very useful if use correctly within the classroom. Integrating technology into our schools is vital to the success of our children. Without the use of technology, we are handicapping our students. In a world that is so driven by technology, it only makes sense to use it to better the educations of our future. 

Project # 12 A

Blog Post #12