As future education it is important to reflect on the lesson, students academic success, and my teaching practices. Since this lesson is technology infused, it is crucial that the use of technology enhanced the lesson. Although study jams is a multimodal slide show (pictures and sound), the students were not able to physically interact with the technology. Considering this limitation, I still believe that the slide show enhanced students learning, intrigued them, and linked the current lesson to what was previously learned. Through the study jams, the students had the opportunity to visualize some of the different animals that make up the arthropod classification. Throughout implementing the technology component of the lesson, I felt very comfortable with my ability to do so properly. The study jam slide show un-pauses itself after a few seconds, which I forgot about, so the slide show started playing abruptly, which was a minor error but was a problem throughout the lesson. Another problem was my ability to switch from projecting the laptop screen to projecting using the Elmo. I was able to do so successfully, but my inexperience with it showed. The students appeared to reach positively to the lesson. They seemed enthusiastic throughout all components. If I was able to resent this lesson again, I would have had the students examine the magnet sort, rather then myself examining it. Through the lesson, some of the students did not put the arthropod on the correct side of the T-chart. When this happened, I asked the entire class “do spiders have an exoskeleton? Do they have jointed legs? Do they have a segmented body?” Throughout this process the entire class answered, and we corrected the error. However, I would have preferred to have the students come up and evaluate the T-chart. The students were extremely engaged and motivated. This can be inferred through the teacher made observations, and the completion of the foldable (image provided below). Through the foldable it is evident that students we able to comprehend the characteristics of arthropods. It is also clear that the use of technology (study jams) assisted the students in their comprehension because they were able to use the animals from the slide show as animals to draw in their foldable. There are multiple areas of growth that became evident through the implementation of this lesson. One major area of growth is becoming more informed of the technological resources available. It is important that the students have the opportunity to interact with the technology (when appropriate and possible). And I believe that this is an area that could use improvement in my teaching practices. Although this inexperience did not affect my students learning, I believe that with this improvement, the technology component would have been more enhancing. I also learned that it is important to be flexible. Originally, I had a different technological component. However, after discussing with my CT, we decided that the technology I selected would not be best for enhancing the students learning of the characteristics of arthropods. So we selected another technology component (study jams slide show), which clearly enhanced student learning/comprehension. Lesson Plan: Student work sample (foldable): Study Jams slide show (screen shot):
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