Course Description Reflection
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Technology to Enhance Learning
Strategies for integrating technology into the teaching and learning process, with a focus on enhancing how students think rather than what they think. Special attention given to supporting higher order thinking and problem solving with technology.
This course opened by an activity that required me to plan a technology lesson (with supplemental resources) based on a video I selected from the Newsy library. A following activity required recognizing types of meaningful learning: active, constructive, authentic, intentional, and cooperative, and I learned to identify which activities used these learning theories by application. I developed a lesson plan centered on the New Victory Garden. My instructor asked permission to submit the lesson plan I created into the Newsy library. The KITE (Knowledge Innovation for Technology in Education) website published by the University of Missouri was introduced and I learned search instruction of its database of lesson plans and resources. The KITE website will be a terrific resource for me to use in the future because it allows opportunities for structuring technology integration in the classroom. Assessment of meaningful learning was an important element to the course, with structuring of specific outcomes an integral ingredient for students' understanding their application of knowledge to the activity. Concept mapping with the Inspiration program was another integral activity to help me understand and organize the technology application and tools I used in a planned lesson.
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