Standard #5: Application of Content

The teacher understands how to connect concepts and use differing perspectives to engage learners in critical
thinking, creativity, and collaborative problem solving related to authentic local and global
issues.

Reflection: Implicating new technology into my future classroom is a goal and a new way for students to learn.
Using the I-WE-YOU best practice is so effective for scaffolding children to be able to use the skills taught on their
own. Using the Smart Table opened my eyes as a teacher into the many things I can do with it not only in literacy
but also in other content areas. Using this technology reaches out to the many different learners in classrooms and
may solve problems that occur in learning for children.


Madonna University provided me the opportunity to meet this standard in the course EDU 4220. This
course gave me an opportunity to create a new literacy project. My partner and I decided to incorporate
technology into our project and we chose the Smart Table. By using the Smart Table we are using
technology effectively to ensure that literacy is accessible in different ways as well as important to see in
different ways for all learners. Literacy can be watched through video for visual learners, heard through
audio for auditory learners, and made into a hands on activity for hands on type learners. For our project we
based it around the I-WE-YOU theory. Our resources included The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
and a Smart Table. The standard that this lesson covers is R.CM.01.02- Retell in sequence up to three
important ideas and details of familiar simple oral and written text. First, the I part which would be the
teacher modeling to the students would include the teacher reading the book aloud and orally thinking out
loud and retelling the story using the main events that happened. The We part when the teacher is a guide
will include the teacher and students going over the sequence of the story together by using pictures from
the story to retell the story by putting the pictures in order. The You part when the students independently
practice this skill is when they would listen to the book and watch the visual video of the book on the Smart
Table then arrange the pictures given to them in order of how they happened in the story. They simply
move the pictures around with their fingers because it is all touch screen.