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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Third review of my GAME plan

I realized the other day when reading the two objectives which I want to work towards that I had not blogged on how I would model creativity and innovative thinking. I went to our text for the course and looked up what it meant to model creativity and innovative thinking. According to our text there are six types of creative thinking and I am going to make divergent creative thinking part of my game plan. This means my students will take a point and move outward to a variety of perspectives (Cennamo, K., Ross, J. & Ertmer, P., 2009). Later this school year I am planning on doing a lesson on the Gulf Oil Spill. As part of the lesson I want to provide them with the question of “How do you think the environment will be affected by the Gulf Oil Spill”? I would have the students use the websites which I am currently collecting and research how the area is affected already and also research other oil spills and the results of those. I still need to locate all my websites but I have obtained several of them and put them in an online bookmarking site so that they are accessible where ever I am. I have discovered several websites for science, government, and news. I made folders on the bookmarking page which helped me to keep them organized. I still need to go through the government websites to see who deals with environmental issues with in our local, state and federal government. I want to be prepared so if an environmental issue comes up in the city I work in then my students can get involved in learning about the issue and decided if there is something they can do about it.

One area I am going to have to modify temporarily is my professional development on technology due to my work and school load. I will not be able to attend the Podcast professional development. I am hoping they will offer it again but until then I will try and work with it some more. I do know our media center does have microphones and they have used podcasting before, so I will check with them.


Cennamo, K., Ross, J. & Ertmer, P. (2009). Technology Integration for Meaningful Classroom Use: A Standards-Based Approach. (Laureate Education, Inc., Custom ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.

3 comments:

  1. Laura,

    I can relate very well to your last paragraph here. I have found that I want to learn about all of the different technology tools to use in the classroom so that I can use it now. It gets so overwhelming though. I think your smart to take a step back and see that you can't do everything right now. There are so many great resources online, and I'm sure if you can't attend the Podcast professional development there is plenty of information you can find there. I love that you are relating the objectives to real life situation. Students seem to be so much more engaged in those topics.

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  2. Kyingling,

    It was a very difficult decission for me. What you said about gathering information sparked another thought. I think there are others from my school who may be going so I can have them show me what they learned. Thanks for your post.

    Laura

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  3. Hi Laura,

    Here is the website you requested for the eBeam Edge technology: http://www.luidia.com/education/ebeam-edge-for-education-page.html

    KayH

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