Designing lessons and developing curriculum with technology is so important in today's classrooms for student learning. In chapter 4 of this book, it explains that an example of doing this could be by doing a science lesson on ecological footprints or with rainscapes showing the water cycle. The one that is more interesting to me, that I will be talking about here is about the ecological footprints. "This lesson shows students the impact that modern lifestyles, including their own, have on environmental resources. Every group of people leaves a lasting impact on the environment through natural resource consumption and waste accumulation- their "ecological footprint" "(Maloy, et al, 2013, p. 77). This lesson is challenging for many students because it is sometimes hard to think of ways that we can live here on this planet without destroying it. We destroy it everyday by doing something so little that we think would not destroy it, but in all seriousness, it does. Examples are littering, smoking, oil spills, cutting down trees leaving birds with no homes etc. I think this science lesson would be an amazing lesson to do with my students in a few years to come, because this lesson makes your students have to think out side of the box. Thinking outside the box is not really used much in children that are in school today sense everything is answered for them within textbooks and through the internet. Here I provided a picture of an interesting way you could imagine what an ecological footprint may look like.
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| Photo credit to Institut-Escola Les Vinyes on Flickr |
Second, Apps as well can give you good educational lessons you can teach your students through the right curriculum. My lesson plan is an app that gives you "pre-established templates to support lesson planning by teachers. You can customize the app to fit the requirements of your school district or school" (Maloy, et al, 2013, p. 80). Today in history is another good app that provides day-by-day important events that have happened and also remarkable people that are in our history that we learn about in school today. When I become a teacher, I know most definitely that I will be using My lesson plan, sense right now, as I am studying to become a teacher, making lesson plans is a learning experience I am working on as we speak for both my summer classes, so it would be a good tool for me to use now and in the future in becoming a teacher. As for Today in history, I also will be using this with my students because learning about things in history, especially things that are happening now in today's world, is really important to inform your students about. Giving you an example of one of the two apps I talked about, here is a video I found on YouTube that explains how a lesson plan app works called Easy Planner; it is very similar to the app, My lesson plan.
Third, Websites/apps are out there to help with student assessment in and outside of the classroom! Rubistar is an awesome website for teachers to go to when making rubrics for grading their students assignments. It provides teachers/students studying to become teachers a set of templates that can be used as written or even can be customized to best fit a particular assignment/project they are wanting to grade depending on how heavy the points are for each assignment/project. I have used Rubistar before in a class at FSW last semester, and it made making a rubric so fun and easy! I can not wait to use rubistar again when I become a teacher, and I start grading all of my students work that I assign them to do! Here I provided a comic I made on a website called ToonDoo talking about Rubistar.
In conclusion, Using technology is a good way to make things into lessons with the use of computers, smart-boards, tablets, etc. while in the classroom with the example I provided above about the ecological footprint. Apps and websites can help teachers along the way to work with student assessment. My lesson plan is an app that helps make lesson plans for teachers to follow by throughout the day when educating their students. Rubistar is a website that also helps teachers when grading students assignments. It is a website where you can make rubrics to help grade your students assignments/projects. I am so looking forward to becoming a teacher all because of the latest technology! It makes learning fun!
Resources:
J. (2013,
November 07). Easy Planner - The Lesson Planning App for Teachers Demo.
Retrieved June 07, 2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvQHECiOS18
Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.
Murphy, S (2015, June 7). Rubistar. Created with ToonDoo http://www.toondoo.com/cartoon/10221503
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