Blog Post: Using the GAME Plan Process with Students
Based on the International Society for Technology in Education, I believe my students can benefit from the GAME Plan which aims at moulding them to embrace to following three standards:
1. Creativity and Innovation: create original works as a means of personal or group expression.
2. Communication and Collaboration: communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.
3. Digital Citizenship: exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity.
Students must be given substantial reasons that the standards as outlined in the GAME Plan will increase their awareness on the use of technology tools. To help students monitor their involvement and applications they would be appraised on a weekly basis to track their progress. Students would also be asked to create online portfolios where they will save works that demonstrate their application of utilizing the technology tools to achieve creativity and innovation, communication and collaboration and digital citizenship. Also, to hold students accountable for their interaction with technology for study, I will ask parents and guardians to sign monthly supervision records that stipulate how many contact hours were utilized for doing educational online learning.
If the GAME Plan can be altered to facilitate more meaningful lessons, then students would be given the opportunity to suggest ways to make the plans more feasible.
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Kerry-Ann,
ReplyDeleteWow, I never even thought about the idea of getting parents involved and remaining up-to-date with their child's work by having them sign monthly supervision records. Great idea! Make sure students are aware of the consequences that will occur if they do not get a parent's signature, so they take it seriously and do not forget to get it signed. During Back-to-School Night is a great time that parents can become aware of the record sheet and ask any questions about it. This is a time when many of the parents will be present, and you can talk to them face-to-face instead of through a letter explaining the process.
-Lauren Cogan
6-7 language arts
Lauren,
ReplyDeleteThere are many teachers who will testify that parental involvement in their child's life is a struggle. I beleive that the more teachers inform parents about projects, goals, and outcome of students' work, then more parents might realize that their involvement can positively affect their child's progress. As it relates to the use of technology to do academic work, parents should also be made aware so that they can also provide some assistance even as they monitor their child's use of the Internet.
K. Kerr
I have to say that If you had asked me a few years ago about parent involvement, I would have yes YES!!! Without a doubt, but after having had quite a few painful experiences with parents who seem determined to prove that the teacher is to blame to blame for every issue with their child from bad behavior to failing test grades, I can truly say: "let curb how much access parents have." I am now on Snapgrades.com and all teachers in our school have been "strongly encouraged" to use it. I teach over 200 students including my evening school kids. It is a most frustrating experience to receive scores of emails everyday from parents AND students complaining that their homework wasn't checked in the night before, or questioning this grade or that. Parents have become so bothersome about the issue of extra credit, that many students refuse to study for tests and wait for extra credit assignments to boost their grades. I do believe that there is a limit.
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