Chapter 3

Focus Question: What are the "student learning obejectives" and "understanding by design" (backward design) models of lesson planning?
The "student learning objectives" are  1.) tell who  2.) is going to do what  3.) when  4.) how much or how often and  5.) how it will be measured or evaluated. 
Student learning objectives are the intended or planned outcomes of the educators instructional activities - not the activities themseleves. It has many planning, assessment, and instructional methods in the framework of lesson development. (Transforming Learning with New Technologies, p. 64)
The "understanding by design" a.k.a backward design is an approach to curricular development. It has three main components:
Stage 1- Identify desired results  to provide a frame for student  exploration of a topic, the teacher Identifies the lesson's enduring understandings and essential questions. These statements and questions are the big ideas to the information that students will always remember.
Stage 2- Determine accepctable evidence (assessment strategies). Teacher decides what kinds of evidence will show that students have learned the material and can give out ideas and information based on what was taught through understandings and questions.
Stage 3- Plan learning experiences and instruction (obejectives and methods). The teacher chooses learning objectives, identifies teaching methods, and crafts a plan of how a lesson will be conducted. (Transforming Learning with New Technologies, p. 64-65)

Tech Tool link: www.Thinkfinity.org
Here's an online resource page that engages motivated educators who advocate technology through creative use, and inspires us to be actively involved. This site shares resources and shares the best practices for teaching and learning today.

Summary and Connection
This chapter includes a lot of helpful resources to help educators and students reach their goals by interactively learning about technology. With assessments to standards-based assessment using technology to further the students execptations they are able to accurately define a problem, design a strategy for solving problems, how they plan and how well they were able to explain their conclusions.  Supporting students is so important to their growth, that we are very fortunate to have accessable data and resources to help us further their education and ours.