My Reflection on Integrating Technology Across the Content Areas

Throughout this course, I have learned a lot about myself as an educator. I have had the opportunity to reflect on the ways that I am introducing technology to my students, and set goals to enhance my students’ learning through the integration of problem-based learning, collaboration and communication, and digital storytelling. Each week I blogged about my personal GAME plan, to enhance my use of the NETS-T standards, by setting two goals. I wanted to inspire student growth and creativity, and engage in professional growth and leadership. Through the actions I took, and monitoring and evaluating of my goals, I feel that I was successful in making progress towards these two goals. Through the technology-based lessons that I created in this course, my students are able to express their creativity and grow in their knowledge of the standards and technology tools. As a professional, I have been taking a leadership role to share new web 2.0 tools with my co-workers and help them find useful ways to integrate technology into more of their lessons. I have also had a discussion with my principal about starting a Technology Club next year for interested and inspiring fourth and fifth graders. I hope that the students will take interest in this and there will be a growing number of students interested in learning through technology.


Through the GAME plan process, I have learned the importance of setting goals and how to appropriately carry them out. Now that I have a deeper understanding of how to apply the GAME plan to my learning, I feel confident in my ability to use it for helping my students set learning goals for themselves. Since I am still teaching Pre-K, I will still find ways to integrate technology into my lessons that does not require reading. I have been looking into online picture stories and creating them through my SMARTboard software. I also plan to continue to create lessons and units for upper grade levels, in hopes that I can share them with other teachers and improve technology integration throughout my school.