Final Reflections

I learned in ED110 that using an IWB will enable me to create lessons in the format that 21st Century learner will relate to best and find the most stimulating. I will continue to practice and become more familiar with the Notebook software because it is a great tool for building interesting lesson for students. It will enable me to design lesson plans that are interactive, visually and auditorially pleasing for my students in addition to being educationally stimulating. It will be the primary tool for me to use when I build sample lessons for my future classes at Trinity.

My experiences in ED110 with technologies new to me like Wordle, Scratch, Prezi, iMovie and IWB Notebook, have given me the confidence to try new things with an eye on how I can incorporate them in creating lessons. These tools will be incorporated in IWB lesson that will surely stimulate students. I also learned that when using technology it will not go perfectly but that is OK! The important thing is how I deal with the adversity. It gives me the opportunity to model calmness and grace under difficult situations for my students and colleagues.

I loved how all the assignments introduced me to new software and teaching tools that I will be able to incorporate in my classroom. The use of the new technology reinforced the principles I learned in ED100 about creating non-differentiated lessons that will leverage each student’s primary and secondary intelligences so every student will have material presented in a way that they can understand and master. I order to educate 21st century learners I will have to embrace existing tools and continue to grow as our technological world evolves, because the state of the art methods used today will probably be obsolete in a few years and replaced by a new tool/method I cannot even image.