Week 5 Reflection

“Our students must learn not only how to use current technologies, but also how to evaluate which ones work best for particular tasks or projects.” (Pitzer, Hubbell and Kuhn, 2012). We have learned so many ways to incorporate technology into the classroom this semester, but found that not only do we need to teach our students how to use the technology of today but we need to learn how to use the technology of today. Technology is changing so quickly that we need to make sure we are just as up to date as our students. But by giving students so many choices when teaching a lesson to learn and to make it where it was a student centered lesson we have given the power of the learning to them. When planning this lesson, we tried to include as much technology as possible, in doing so we gave the students and the teachers teaching this lesson enough that they should be able to reach every child in the classroom with one or other of the technology tools. We pooled our knowledge of different schools, positions in the district as well as the number of years and type of experience we each possess and in turn made a great team. The lesson that we planned will be one that teachers could use now in 5th grade to teach the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Pitler, H., Hubbell, E., Kuhn, M., & Malenoski, K. (2007). Using technology with classroom instruction that works. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.