Blog Phase III

Final Comprehensive Reflection Video: 

Here is my video on what the ISTE Standards mean to me and how they are used in my technology classroom. In the video I also mention my personal philosophy and technology integration.

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Blog Phase II: Lesson III: Reflection on Lesson Implementation

1. Instructional Decisions/Teaching (InTask Standard # 9): Discuss the implementation process and describe
• What went well and what didn't go well during the implementation of your lesson? On my lesson I believe what went well was the engagement part. I had the students come up to the front and act out a person chosen from the bowl. What did not go well was the students logging in to BrainPOP. I believe students will have a hard time to log in and it might take longer. 
• How well was the alignment to objectives and standards maintained? The objective and the standard was well aligned and mentioned throughout the lesson. 
• Describe any modifications made during the implementation of the lesson.            There were no modifications made during the lesson.
2. Mechanics:
   • What technologies did I use (for the teacher and the learner)? For the teacher and the learner I used the doc camera and the students used the scholastic website to read and BrainPOP to watch a video and answer questions.
   • How were the technologies used (by whom and in what manner)? I used the doc camera for the organizer, I modeled the first community helper what they have, can, and who they are. I then called on some students to share out from what they read on the scholastic website. Students then used BrainPOP to learn more about what a community helper is. 
   • My lesson was within the correct time frame 
     • The lesson was within the correct time frame because I had students use technology throughout the lesson and had them share what they learned about the helper. 
3. Assessment of Learning (InTask Standard # 6): 
• Include at least 2 digital artifacts that demonstrate what you or your students (peers) have created as a result of your lesson.                                                                                              
  
• Students were directed to this website, Scholastic. They had to chose a community helper to read or use the audio for help. At the end they answered 3 questions from the reading. This was then used to do the Community Helper organizer as a class, shown below.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
• The community Helper organizer was done with the whole class using the doc camera. I modeled one first and then students shared out what a community helper can do, what they have, an what some of them are.                                                                                                                   
• Describe your students' level of success in achieving the standards and objectives for your lesson based on your assessment.                                            Based on my assessment, the students achieved the standard and objective. I used a checklist to see if students named the helper and said one thing they do to help the community using the notecard they had. 
• Describe the level of success you had in teaching the lesson: 
  • How do your individual reflections support this? I had engaging activities for the students to do while learning who the helpers are and what they do to help in the community. 
  • How do the comments from your classmates support this? My classmates mentioned the engagement part was a good way to start out my lesson with the students. One thing to take into consideration is that it might take longer for students to log in the computers. But the Community Helper organizer can be a great way to have the students complete a sentence as well.
4. What did you learn from designing and teaching this lesson and how will you use this in the creation of future lessons/learning activities.                                      After teaching this lesson I learned that it will take longer to use technology with the younger students, since they will need help to log in and to navigate. But I believe this lesson can be used in a classroom, just be modified so the students would not have difficulties using the computer.