Assignment #2

- The link to my lesson plan is 

  http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=fc508c74-dfaa-449e-a2f7-431bc9474654 

- The SMART board features I used are sound, pictures, and interactive games, activities that include pulling things, dragging words and making an insect. 

- NETS

Students: 

    3. Research and Information Fluency

    Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.

    a. Plan strategies to guide inquiry

    b. Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media

    c. Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks

    d. Process data and report results

Teachers: 

   2.Design and Develop Digital Age Learning

Experiences and Assessments

Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS·S.

    a. Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote   student learning and creativity

    b. Develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress

    c. Customize and personalize learning activities to address students’ diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources

    d. Provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching

      This lesson meets the NETS standard I have chosen because the students are going organize and evaluate the information they learned. They will also be using digital tools and record what they have learned. As for me, the teacher, I will use digital design and tools to develop the knowledge and skills about insects for the students. I have customized and personalized this lesson plan to fit the students learning and by the end, they will know all the body parts of an insect as well as some characteristics.

- Using a SMART board in my future classroom will improve their learning by providing interactive activities and grabbing their attention with technology skills. I believe students will learn better this way because technology is what they are used to working with at home and outside of school. Lots of kids favorite games now are on ipads and iphones so if I teach with a "giant ipad" (SMART board) I believe they will learn best.