Reflecting on my GAME

As I reflect on this part of my education, I have to admit that overall the GAME lesson for myself has given me more time to interview teachers about their own classrooms. Since so much of this project revolved around having my own chance to grow and change with my students, I was sort of at a disadvantage (because I have no class!). Regardless, I think it gave me the chance to hear from other more mature and respected teachers about their own experiences in our district and with technology.

I think that I will need to spend more time expanding what I really want from student self-guiding reading instruction and help via technology. I suppose I had really hoped to find one piece of internet-based tech that was going to change reading instruction in the classroom. What I found instead were gobs of websites that have a jump on one section of instruction, but not ever niche. Also, I did not explore many websites that charged fees for use, and perhaps these would have better resources. Either way, I found some activities that I'm sharing with other remedial reading instructors in my district. If nothing else, that helps dramatically.