Master of Educational Technology Showcase
During my time in Michigan State's Master of Arts of Educational Technology program, I was pushed to develop many aspects of my teaching and teaching philosophy. The artifacts below demonstrate three areas as an educator that I feel proficient in because of my experience with this top program. These areas are Project Based Learning, Repurposing Technology, and Professional Practice.
Project Based Learning
Research through Understanding: Research Documentary
Students often come into the classroom with many well developed misconceptions. This project involved researching a concept that was well developed but misunderstood by many people. The goal was to analysis the misconceptions through questioning. Many people were interviewed and a lot of research was done for this project.
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Acquiring New Skills Through the World Wide Web
Repurposing Technology
Ideas Into Practice: Wikibook
Differentiation: Solutions For Ill-Structured Writing Problems
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For this project, I had to choose a disorder and an ill-structured problem often associated with that disorder. My choice inovled the autism spectrum disorders(ASD). During the school year of 2016-2017, I had a student with Asperger. He struggled writing. The research taught me a lot about how his brain works and what technology would help make this ill-structured problem less of an obstacle to learning.
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Professional Development: Developing a WebinarProfessional development is very important for teachers. The goal of this project was to take on an educational technology topic and organize a webinar around the topic. Dr. Christine Greenhow, an Assistant Professor in the College of Education at Michigan State University and Sarah Gretter, a doctoral candidate in Educational Psychology and Educational Technology (EPET) at MSU, weighed in on Informational Literacy and Social Media.
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Reproduced by permission of the publisher, © 2016 by http://bridge.educ.msu.edu/
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Design Thinking: Wicked Problem With Teaching Complex thinking
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"A wicked problem is a problem that is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize." (“Wicked Problem,” 2016, “Definition,” para. 1) I joined a think tank group and used Design Thinking to come up with possible solutions for teaching complex thinking. Design thinking is a five step process for creating solutions to wicked problems. My think tank and I created a website with footage from our meetings, research, and survey results.
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Reflecting On Profressional Practice: Video Blog
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Improving Professional Practice: Grants
The focus of this assignment was to write a grant proposal for new technology for classroom integration. The ideas of TPACK are front and center in this grant proposal The TPACK framework suggests that all three aspects of Content, Pedagogy, and Technology should work together in unison. This grant was for digital cameras for video editing and project based learning in the classroom. It was submitted and approved by the Ogden School Foundation on 10/03/2016.
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