Thursday, April 30, 2009

Technology Based Lesson Plan

Upon completing my technology based lesson plan, I have a few comments regarding my experience. Although lesson plans themselves may seem to be time consuming and unnecessary, they do in fact serve a purpose in the education process. Teaching is made much easier if lesson plans are thoroughly written and thought provoking. Completing lesson plans for the sake of completing them will not serve the teacher a great deal purpose because of the lack of planning.

In terms of the technology lesson plan, one question that I have is, why are there zero standards for technology in New Jersey? It seems that administrators and supervisors are constantly and consistently stressing the use of technology within the classroom, but without standards, it is difficult to implement certain types of technology within a lesson. Maybe the reason falls under the assumption that not all schools have the same technology, but I believe the it is a topic that should be focused on in recent years. If superiors are stressing the use of technology within the classroom, then standards should be created so teachers have some type of baseline to follow. Comments?

1 comment:

Dr. Luongo said...

Mark,

Take a look at this link:
http://education.state.nj.us/cccs/?_standard_matrix;c=8

There are standards, but they are not as strictly enforced as the others.

Any thoughts?