Using the GAME Plan Process with Students

Encouraging our students to become self-directed learners is important to their success as a student, but will also be important as they become a contributing member of society. “Self-directed, metacognitive learners engage in three key processes: planning, monitoring, and evaluating their learning activities” (Cennamo, Ross & Ertmer, 2009). To help students work towards this status, I believe it would be beneficial to explain the GAME plan and its benefits for learning.

Students would need help in setting goals. Setting goals for math need not be so broad as, mastering the seventh grade math curriculum, but rather mastering a concept they struggle with, or setting a grade average to attain. Setting goals for developing proficiency in technology may not seem necessary to the digital natives, but they do have room to grow, especially in the standards of Research and Information Fluency, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making and Digital Citizenship (The ISTE National Educational Technology Standards (NETS•S)and Performance Indicators for Students, 2007).

It will be important to allow time in class for students to carry out the other steps in the plan. This could be done in the form of a blog, just as we have done over the course of this class. Activities and tasks that allow the students to accomplish their technology goals must also be provided in class, as well as modeling the behavior myself.

References:

Cennamo, K., Ross, J. & Ertmer, P. (2009). Technology integration for meaningful classroom use: A standards-based approach (Laureate Education custom edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.

National Education Standards for Students (NETS-S) located at http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForStudents/2007Standards/NETS_T_Standards_Final.pdf.