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Classroom or Learning Environment:

Students in 2nd Grade will use the Prodigygame, https://prodigygame.com/ (Math based game) to help improve their overall abilities and understanding of Mathematics. Students will see different math based questions depending on their grade and classroom assignment they are working on. As they progress their Wizard will gain powers, abilities, energy and shields to build on throughout the game. The students will find this fun, engaging and competitive as they will compete for prizes, coins to upgrade their wizard and pets that they can grow with.

Learning Objective:

Students will practice learning their greater than and less than 2 digit numbers and equal to. As they progress through two digit numbers, some higher learning students will progress to 3 digits.


Application:

In my lesson I will go back to two principles I believe are very important to my teaching. The Temporal Contiguity Principle and The Segmenting Principle. I am going to add a third which is the Spatial Contiguity Principle. All of these have their own benefits but they all have two things in common, graphics and narration. Students learn more and are engaged more when they see graphics, pictures, narration, printed words and hear those words spoken to them. Also, with the Segmenting principle the program (Prodigy) goes step by step to help the learner build their confidence and understanding of the assignment. The program will repeat if necessary the same problem over and over until the student has a full understanding of the solution and then it will continue on.

With the digital image technologies my students are able to see a visual or video which helps guide their understanding of the lesson and helps them retain what they are learning. The images also gives the students an idea of how the program works, why they should feel confident and also why they should feel excited about it.

I applied the principles of Spatial Contiguity and Temporal they work best with my students because they need both the visual and the video or narration. Also they need it to be demonstrated which I always show them on the SmartBoard.

Reflection:

My thinking was changed because I found a new way to present the information, through a GIF and also using Pixlr. I now know I can create different images and different GIF's to intice my students or get my students excited about a lesson. I actually put up the Pixlr program on all of my students computers this week and they had a tremendous time creating different pics from it. They were completely engaged and worked together on some projects (collaborated).

The technology that stood out was the Pixlr and GIF (meme generator) technology. I honestly didn't know you could create a GIF or generate your own meme to use in class. I will take this new found technology and use it as motivation in my classroom. I will come up with a few meme's and make some images with Pixlr to show my students how technology can be even more fun, engaging and beneficial.

I enjoyed making the Meme's. I am going to do a lesson plan on Pixlr, GIF's and include the Meme generator. I believe my students will benefit and have an exciting time using all of this new found technology. I am actually going to use the Blog from the first class on Coding and this Blog, plus the Padlet information in my classes so I can show my students different ways and ideas about technology.