GAME Plan Process with my Students

The technology standards and indicators outlined in the NETS-T are necessary for us as teachers to develop for ourselves before we are capable of effectively developing the NETS-S in our students, and as ours is a never-ending process, so is that of our students. We need to be motivated, and need to motivate our students to become self directed lifelong learners.

I will use the GAME plan process with my students to help them develop proficiency in the technology standards and indicators outlined in the NETS-S, which are:
1. Creativity and innovation.
2. Communication and collaboration.
3. Research and information fluency.
4. Critical thinking, problem solving and decision making.
5. Digital citizenship.
6. Technology operations and concepts.

Setting out GOALS:
• Such as use of models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues.
• Incentivize the use of digital learning environments so that students may interact, and collaborate with peers.
• Develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners from other cultures and countries.
• Learn how to plan strategies to guide inquiry.
• Learn how to locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media.
• Collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/or make informed decisions.
• Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.
• Demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning.
• Understand and use technology systems.

APPLYING:
• Create a social networking site for the students to interact collaboratively. I created a site for a lesson in Ning.com.
• In the future I plan to have them interact in the “flatclassrooms” program with students from other countries, starting off with the topic of global warming and natural resources.
• Have them develop a project, promoting research using the QUEST model.
• Have them use different digital tools to present their final projects.

MONITORING:
• Monitor the development of their work throughout the process in order to readapt if some student is having difficulty.

EVALUATING:
• Formative evaluation throughout.
• Summative evaluation of the final project using a rubric.

Maria