Onaje Robinsom

Teach, Learn Technology Integration

Dr.Shoffner
4/19/15

1. How has planning technology-integrated lessons affected your believes in

role of technology in education? Why?
The planning of technology integrated lessons has shown me that technology
has become/is an integral part of the post-modern learning experience. It has
shown me that students feel free and less dictated to by utilizing
technological tools within in the classroom. My belief in constructivist learning
theory coincides with the technology integrated classroom lessons. Because
students are not taught but guided and the hands-on technological approach
is much more effective in allowing a student to use their
creative/exploratory innate learning abilities in order to fully grasp their
mind. Through various digital media tools introduced by the guide/
educator to students in the classroom setting the students learning
experience becomes more of a reality, more of their own reality.which
gives them the authority over their own world especially in a digital
/computerized technological based society.
2. What is your theory of how you learn? How do the ways you learn affect how
you plan to teach? Humans learn based on their innate abilities and their
past experience therefore the constructivist learning theory is accurate
because it describes how people learn. Because people inherently construct
their own world using various means of knowledge, the best way to instruct
young minds is through a minimal level of guidance and scaffolding as they
progress through levels of information. Although there are rules and
standards which should be adhered to in order to gauge the students
progress this behavioral approach should be tertiary to other methods which
are probably more effective and especially to the constructivist approach. In
the classroom because of the constructivist approach my teaching style will
be an hands off approach which will allow the students to explore
themselves and the material which I will introduce to them.

3. What was the most difficult part of lesson planning for technology integration
in your instruction? Why? The most difficult part to lesson planning for
technology is the scaffolding process. Because of my lack of technological
training it is hard to gauge which aspects are more or less difficult for me and
my students. I will not be able to effectively gauge where to begin the
guidance process for my students and as it becomes more complicated where
some need to start at more complicated levels of instruction this process will

Onaje Robinsom
Teach, Learn Technology Integration
Dr.Shoffner
4/19/15
become extremely difficult in a classroom setting and planning my lessons.
Therefore I will have to continue in this course to experience the learning
process through the means of using technology and digital media in order to
fully grasp the difficulties and levels in which to introduce these concepts to
my students.

4. What aspect of lesson planning was the most challenging? What will you
do to help address this challenge? The most difficult part of lesson planning was
figuring out the level of instruction as it relates to using technology and what level
of instruction was appropriate for the various students which may be in my
classroom. It was difficult to write because of my under exposure to technological
instruction and the educational mediums utilized in the classroom. Through this
class and the continual exposure to different types of technology and digital
mediums I will gain greater insight on how to write better technological integrated
lesson plans which will cover a wide range of learning abilities in my classroom.
Finally as a postmodern educator I will effectively be able to guide my students
utilizing older forms of transmission of knowledge and newer forms which will give
me the ability to develop well-rounded lesson plans.