Concepts Learned

During this week's reading I learned many different ideas. The first one being how to write a technology infused lesson plan. These are the simple steps to follow: (Always remember ASSURE)
~ Analyze
        * Who are our target learners?
              - We need to think about who our learners are and what their prior knowledge is. We can't reach a lesson about addition if the students don't know their numbers. We have to take that into consideration when we think about planning a lesson. Especially with technology, some of the students might not have any technology at school and might not even know how to use a computer. As teachers we need to look into that and see if the lesson will be able to accommodate all of these students. 
~ Standards and objectives
        * In order to write my own technology infused lesson I need to know how to write effective objectives. In order to write an effective objective I need to remember ABCD, which is as follows:
            -A is for Audience- Who is our objective written for?
            -B is for behavior- What are our learners skill and capability
            -C is for Conditions- What is the environment and material for the learner

            -D is for degree- What needs to be done by student in order to be satisfactory 

~ Strategies and technology

        * In last weeks lesson we learned about many different strategies and how to use them. I learned that for each objective we should have two different strategies. One that is teacher-centered and one that is student-centered. I also learned that it is very important that us, as teachers need to select media that best serves each strategy. 

~Utilize technology

        * For the lesson try to find the right technology to use. The teacher needs to be educated on what they are using also (Teachers need to practice with the technology). 

~Require learner participation

        * I will always want my students to participate in the classroom discussion or be actively learning through the lesson. This is important so we can see what some of the students are understanding and what the students might need more help on. 

~Evaluate and Revise

       * At the end of teaching a lesson it is important for us to look at the lesson and see what needs to be changed or taken out. Just take some time and kind of reflect on the lesson and write down some notes about how you think it went. 

As you can see, I have learned more than three different things from the readings this week. I am a math major and we don't write objectives or lesson plans like this. The readings this week really helped me with how to write a technology infused lesson plan.