This week I created a lesson plan that required students to act as a start up entrepreneur with the opportunity to travel to London and meet a potential investor. The student has limited funds $2,500 and must travel on specified dates and cannot exceed the budget. The lesson plan required that the students use the following tools and websites:
- Google calendar with trip feed
- Google Earth
- AA.com
- Expedia.com
- Google Docs
- Google Map
This lesson was fun to plan because I love planning trips almost as much as I enjoy going on them. (I know I’m a weird.) I enjoyed learning to use google Earth and found its capability to be incredible. See below for a screen shot of the hotel I stayed in London last year! I also really liked google calendar and was able to sync it with my iphone calendar and share with my husband’s google calendar.
The videos I watched this week really spoke to my heart. As someone who wants to teach business technology courses to high school students, I realize how necessary it is we incorporate technology into all courses. I hope that as a new teacher I am able to show my co-workers technologies they can incorporate in their lesson plans. One way I can do this as a teacher is to have a blog that my co-workers follow. I feel that in order to improve student learning all schools need workshops for its teachers so they can stay abreast of ever changing technology. When I become a teacher, I will be open to students teaching me new technology and sharing it with the rest of the class because let's face it -they are learning faster at an earlier age than I EVER did.
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