Writing a Technology Lesson Plan

I would use The NETS*T standards of Assessment and Evaluation for the digital lesson plan. Students will conduct a survey, use a spreadsheet, create a column chart or bar graph, and present the findings, which will meet all three learning objectives and standards.

At first, I thought preparing a lesson plan would be easy because I’ve done it several times. I was wrong. It was difficult, because it wasn’t just another lesson plan. It was a new format of preparing a lesson plan and a lesson plan using technology, which was new to me. The format was different than what I was used to. I had to decide the type of activity and data to collect in order to assign it to the students using technology. I also didn’t know if it was going to run smoothly or if enough time was allotted for the activity.

I used the search engine dogpile.com to search for rubrics and several examples of ASSURE lesson plans. I also used the excel spreadsheet to input the data and create a bar graph. Instead of trying to create a group presentation rubric for this lesson plan, I was able to search online for rubrics that I liked. I found many different websites with rubrics. I finally decided on Teachnology, a website that creates a rubric using your objectives, school name, title of rubric, and teacher name placed on it. You were able to choose a picture for your rubric, so it made it personal too.

The best part of preparing the digital lesson plan was seeing the different samples of lesson plans. It intimidated me, but at the same time made me want to work harder. It helped me to understand that there really isn’t one way to prepare a lesson plan, just a format. You can be as creative, as long as the substitute teacher understands how to execute your lesson plan. It also made me want to prepare a lesson plan equivalent to or even better than the samples I reviewed. It can be a lesson plan for one day or one week.

References:
NETS*S. http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForTeachers/2008Standards/NETS_for_Teachers_2008.htm [Retrieved 13 February 2009]

Teachnology. http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/ [Retrieved 11 February 2009]