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PAPER 4 I feel the most comfortable in integrating the technology and working with the technology with my students. I wouldn’t be doing my job if I wasn’t using technology. =) After taking this class I plan to approach developing my curruculum more wholistically. In the past on a very minute scale I was doing backward design. I looked at the standards and came up with an activity that would go with that standard. I looked at my curriculum one standard at a time. The disadvantage to this approach was that their wasn’t any focus and we were heading somewhere new every week. With my full view of UbD I see there is so much more than just looking at your assessment first and then trying to get them their. The making meaning and getting students to transfer the knowledge is going to be the biggest challenge for me. It’s going to be challenging because my students aren’t used to thinking that far, and I’m not use to asking the questions to take them that far. Even Wiggins stated in the video with his soccer team when he asked them, “What’s happening out there.” For a couple of weeks they didn’t give good answers. I think sometimes after 2 weeks of them not giving good answers I say, well they don’t get this lets try something else. Or they don’t get it so I give them the answer and I stop them short of struggling through it to finally get it. I stop short of the ah ha moment. Some teachers who loop with their students say that things like that don’t take full effect in year two. As I start on my lesson and I’m starting with the assessment, I’m finding it difficult to unpack the standard to know what the state is wanting them to know. I think the way that I interpret how they might determine the meaning of words that are found in figurative language will be different than the way the state says they should be able to show that standard. I would think if they are going to have common core standards that they would have given examples of assessment questions that would go with them. The other part I really want to get as I teach is combining teaching computers with reading and math. The hard part of this is finding the standards for reading and math and a standard in Technology and putting them together. It’s almost a wicked problem.