Monitoring my GAME plan

All teachers should make a formal GAME plan in which they set Goals; choose Actions; Monitor goals; and regularly Evaluate their own progress (Laureate Education, 2009). I am especially interested in learning more about technology and ways to integrate it into my Kindergarten curriculum. The information and resources that I need to strengthen my GAME plan are readably available to me, it is just a matter of being able to have the technology to use in my classroom to follow through with the plan. My action plan is always being modified. I like to modify it in my head on a daily basis. I am always thinking of ways to make my plan just a bit better for myself and my students. So far, I have learned that there are many assessments out there to use with technology. I am excited to be able to incorporate some of the assessments linked to using technology in the future. One of the neatest assessments that I found to be interesting was the company Wireless Generation. They use a handheld computer to allow teachers to gather and compile student response almost instantaneously (Cennamo, K., Ross, J. & Ertmer, P. (2009). I thought that this was amazing. It is a great tool to use when having to do running records for the whole class. Doing them by hand is time consuming and takes more than one period. Cennamo states that you can make changes to your instruction as needed, even daily as necessary, based on real time data collection. Technology is just amazing. Even though it changes daily, there is so much that I do not know and so much that I want to learn. A question that I have learning about technology and technology resources would be to find out if grants can be written for other types of technology to be available to schools. At our school, we currently have a grant writing team for Smart Boards, I wondered if this type of grant or grants were available for other types of technology such as the handheld computers to aide in running records and instant results.

References:
Cennamo, K., Ross, J., & Ertmer, P. (2009). Technology integration for meaningful classroom use: A standards-based approach. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.

My GAME Plan Monitoring

All teachers should make a formal GAME plan in which they set Goals; choose Actions; Monitor goals; and regularly Evaluate their own progress (Laureate Education, 2009). I am especially interested in learning more about technology and ways to integrate it into my Kindergarten curriculum. The information and resources that I need to strengthen my GAME plan are readably available to me, it is just a matter of being able to have the technology to use in my classroom to follow through with the plan. My action plan is always being modified. I like to modify it in my head on a daily basis. I am always thinking of ways to make my plan just a bit better for myself and my students. So far, I have learned that there are many assessments out there to use with technology. I am excited to be able to incorporate some of the assessments linked to using technology in the future. One of the neatest assessments that I found to be interesting was the company Wireless Generation. They use a handheld computer to allow teachers to gather and compile student response almost instantaneously (Cennamo, K., Ross, J. & Ertmer, P. (2009). I thought that this was amazing. It is a great tool to use when having to do running records for the whole class. Doing them by hand is time consuming and takes more than one period. Cennamo states that you can make changes to your instruction as needed, even daily as necessary, based on real time data collection. Technology is just amazing. Even though it changes daily, there is so much that I do not know and so much that I want to learn. A question that I have learning about technology and technology resources would be to find out if grants can be written for other types of technology to be available to schools. At our school, we currently have a grant writing team for Smart Boards, I wondered if this type of grant or grants were available for other types of technology such as the handheld computers to aide in running records and instant results.

References:
Cennamo, K., Ross, J., & Ertmer, P. (2009). Technology integration for meaningful classroom use: A standards-based approach. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.

Cennamo, K., Ross, J. & Ertmer, P. (2009). Technology integration for meaningful classroom use: A standards-based approach. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.