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3. To successfully integrate technology through your curriculum, you should consider the planning cycles as described by Arends. List the planning cycles described in the chapter, then give examples of how you would use technology in each of these phases.

Planning cycles have a large time span that can be linked to the next minute of the day and up to a year in duration. As Arends states throughout the article, the best way to maintain the classroom climate is to be prepared. Planning cycles are the way to that success, as described in the article planning cycles require daily, weekly, unit, term, and yearly planning.

Uses of Technology During the Planning Cycles

Daily—use a computer generated role list to call attendance. Prepare warm up exercise that can be projected either from a computer to a screen or an overhead projector to a screen.

Weekly—prepare a weekly agenda through a calendar program to stay on focus of objectives for the week. Create clip arts for the students to use for flashcards or an end of the week bingo game or other activity to help identify vocabulary words.

Unit—divide the unit up into daily and weekly objectives. Have students create websites, PowerPoint presentations or other projects about what they learned in the unit. To make the unit more interesting, provide music or video that pertains to something in the unit.

End of Term—let the students develop a last day collection of materials used in the class. Put the students in groups and provide them with a computer generated list of materials to be found in a scavenger hunt fashion. Be sure to include fun prizes or treats to be found as well as classroom materials.

Yearly—could prove to be the most challenging for the first few years until there is some experience in the classroom to draw from. At this point in time, I would seek counsel of other teachers for their advice, check out the curriculum, textbook websites, and other materials from the publishing company such as dvds, cds., and computer exercises etc. I could plan out units first based on what the other teachers’ recommendations and seek to implement my own creativity with those units. I am sure that it will be trial and error for a while but in a few school academic years, it will come with more ease.