Standard+5

__Productivity and Professional Practice__
. **Teachers use technology to enhance their productivity and professional practice.**

===My artifacts demonstrating this standard (What?)===
 * Performance Indicators: Teachers**
 * 1) use technology resources to engage in on-going professional development and lifelong learning.
 * 2) continually evaluate and reflect on professional practice to make informed decisions regarding the use of technology in support of student learning.
 * 3) apply technology to increase productivity.
 * 4) use technology to communicate and collaborate with peers, parents, and the larger community to nurture student learning

[|What I See Document] ** What I See ** ** Your name: Angela L. Brewer ** Real World Constructivist Higher Order Thinking || Students collaborate to create knowledge of how current technologies are used and report their findings in wiki’s and videos. || The lesson would be improved if the students could skype and work together in real time. || Real World Constructivist Higher Order Thinking || Students must save the world from aliens by writing cultural reflections and reviewing others writing. || I love the assignment of saving the world from aliens, but maybe this could be more real world by having the students save the world from a dictator or real person. || Real World Constructivist Basic Skills || Nice information about authors and reading lists. More of a reference page than a lesson. || I didn’t see a lot of assignments or activities on this page. Some more real world questioning of authors would be helpful. || Real World Constructivist Higher Order Thinking || Students construct a wiki with information on all body systems and even have to diagnose patients symptoms. || I would only modify this and make it a little more in depth for high school students. || Artificial Constructivist Basic Skills || Student created wiki with vocabulary from a-z in each subject. || Use definitions and links to vocabulary words with pictures or videos. || Add more rows as needed. S
 * Module 1 -**
 * Your grade level/subject area: Science Grades 8-12 **
 * Unit of study reviewed: **
 * ** Component (e.g. lesson plan, video, etc.) ** || ** Range of Use quadrant ** || ** Why ** || ** Improvements ** ||
 * The Flat Classroom || Quadrant D
 * A Thousand Flat World Tales || Quadrant D
 * Bookleads || Quadrant C
 * Code Blue || Quadrant D
 * Webster Class Wiki || Quadrant C


 * Module 1** - Reflection on what you learned from viewing and discussing the example. React to what you saw/read. Here are some suggestions to get you started: What did you like? Are you doing similar things? How would what you saw/read fit into your classroom, or how would you change what you saw to improve it? What would you do?

The Flat Classroom I looked at The Flat Classroom lesson plans. The Flat Classroom Project is a global collaborative project that joins together middle and senior high school students. One of the main goals of the project is to 'flatten' or lower the classroom walls so that instead of each class working isolated and alone, 2 or more classes are joined virtually to become one large classroom. This is done through the Internet using Web 2.0 tools such as Wikispaces and Ning. The topics studied and discussed are real-world scenarios based on 'The World is Flat' by Thomas Friedman. It took me a while to find the topics that the students were actually working on the wiki. All of the scenarios have to do with technology use and integration. This lesson falls on the upper end of all of the areas of the Range of Use Chart. //Complexity of Learning// - The students were creating their own wiki and video and evaluating than material researched. This all required higher order thinking. //Instructional Approach to Learning// - By working together and collaborating they were constructing their own knowledge. They had control of what went into the wiki and videos and no one spoon fed the information to them. //Authenticity of Learning// - They were working with not only real world content, but very up to date information on new technologies. This is a great lesson that I would like to get my students involved with. I can't think of anyway to improve its rigor or relevance.


 * Module 2** - Reflection on what features you observed used in the examples that would be valuable in your classroom? Reference examples you used and include them as artifacts in your ePortfolio under the appropriate NETS teacher standard. Link to the wikis that serve as examples for you.

Wiki Review - I enjoyed looking at all of the different uses for wiki’s in education. I found some that I would find very valuable in my classroom. I didn’t realize that you could do so much with a wiki. I have used them before for listing good websites and resources for teachers in our CFF group and IU9 but I didn’t realize just how much you could do with one. I listed some of my favorite features from each of the sites listed. **A Broken World –** This site was used to have the students create their own notes on each chapter in the text. I have students keep a notebook and this would be a great alternative. They could fix each other mistakes and answer questions for each other.
 * A Thousand Flat World Tales** – This site incorporated both collaboration and learning about cultural differences. I would like to read more of the student’s papers on how to save the world from aliens!
 * Bookleads** //–// My favorite part of this site was the section where it listed authors that skype and blog with students. I also liked the suggested reading lists. I didn’t like how several of the links required a password from your sales representative.
 * Code Blue//–//** Very nice site for younger students to post their learning about body systems. I especially like the patients section where you needed to try to figure out their diagnosis.
 * Dorman's Daily Digest** – I liked the section of this wiki with the class survey and student blogs. What a great way to keep in touch with all of your students.
 * The Webster Class Wiki**//**–**// This site served as a very good vocabulary review for younger students.
 * Teen Talk**- This site was using a wiki as a student portfolio. I guess this is what we are doing in this class. We can put all of our artifacts and assignments in one location to refer to and expand upon.

I sent my technology survey to all of the students in my 10th grade biology class and my 11-12th grade advanced biology class. I was surprised by how many computer applications most of my students are already using. All of the respondants have internet access at home and they have more than 1 computer. Since the survey can not be done from school I would have expected those results. [|Austin Student Technology Survey]
 * Module 2** - Collaboration Reflections using Google Docs - specifically the Google Form.


 * Module 3** - Reflection on use of Problem Based Learning

​ Social Bookmarking - This is a great way to keep track of and share important web sites. I plan add to my website daily. I wish this would have been introduced earlier in the class. [|My diigo]
 * Module 4** - Reflection on Social Bookmarking. Give link to bookmarking site created.

I am a member of the Austin Teachers on-line diigo group for sharing web sites. I also am part of several learning communities on wikispaces.com. In the past, several of my college classes used global learning communities for projects, but that was several years ago. I have not joined twitter yet, but I am a member of a couple of educational groups on facebook. I don't see a lot of use for this type of learning community. If I have a question and I google it, it often links you to postings that could be helpful without being a member. I have used on-line learning communities on web sites such as Promethean Planet when I have specific problems with the website and they have been very helpful.
 * Module 7** - Discussion on being a part of an online community.

===My Reflection on meeting this standard (So What?)===

//What I See doc. represents the goal of continually evaluate and reflect on professional practice to make informed decisions regarding technology in support of student learning. This document represents this indicator because.....//

//Reflection on Problem Based Learning represents the goal of continually evaluate and reflect on professional practice to make informed decisions regarding technology in support of student learning. This document represents this indicator because.....//

Discussion on being a part of an online community represents use technology to communicate and collaborate with peers, parents, and the larger community to nurture student learning because.... === My Future Learning Goals related to this standard (Now What?) === //Write your future learning goals related to this standard// none SavePreviewText Editor