This semester has offered a variety of tools to improve as an innovative thinker. Mainly this has come in the form of new design ideas, both with technology and evaluating the effectiveness of my instruction in terms of sense-making.
I learned quite a bit from instruction models like, ISD, ARCS, TPACK, SAMR, and SITE. They all offer a glimpse into the plethora of variables involve in student learning. I've always had an interest in student motivation and engagement, this focus in teaching has helped me excel and create the rapport and trust to effectively teach. The models expand that approach, and though I've been out of the classroom for the past 2 years, I'm considering returning to have a "lab" where I can try out all these models. Progress, challenges and successes have all been arrested by the fact that I'm not currently teaching in the classroom. It has been a challenge to gauge my success with the content without having students to conduct action research with. Many of my projects for the class had to be hypothetical without my own classroom to test out the practices, this made the course a bit unengaging. Overall though, I've enjoyed learning about the systems and models that I'm sure I'll be able to apply at some point. Again, I'd like to echo that this M.Ed. should really be marketed towards working teachers, as the assignments to not directly apply to working professionals like myself.
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I chose to use the iMovie program to create the video flipped learning introduction. I already had other videos I planned to use for the topic, but the video I made served as a driving question for the lesson. I recently become unemployed, so I did not have a chance to teach this lesson, thus, I can't report if it worked, how it was applied in the classroom, or if students faced barriers to access the material. I've used flipped learning in the past, so I believe this lesson would be effective.
Video can be used as an assessment tool by presenting questions or scenarios for the student to respond to, or by having them create a video project as an informed assessment. With this, a rubric must be set up to make sure standards and benchmarks or met. I'm not sure what is being asked as far as what tools/apps can be used to support teaching and learning; I'll say all the ones that apply to the given scenario, prep would include making sure aspects of TPACK are include in the instructional design. Sorry for the brief, uninspired blog; this flipped learning assignment was mean to be test out as action research in a classroom. Because I do not teach in a classroom, the assignment, and specifically the blog prompts didn't provide the same learning opportunities. This is definitely a M.Ed. designed for working teachers, kind of wishing it was advertised as such at this point.. I chose to use google forms in combination with a simple google sheets document. This allowed for me to administer a forms survey that uploaded directly onto the sheets document. My goal with this is to use it for teacher observations around SEL. This is a part of my consulting work, where a simple interface to gather information is necessary. I expect to use this document in practice in the coming months.
For my capstone project I hope to use the same combination of apps, along with an auto-grading and mail feature. My hopes is to have a survey schools, or teachers can complete, it will assess their educational climate and culture and give them an automated response with a "score" with suggestions. I will explore the add-ons that help to achieve this goal. I also would like to play around with using these functions within an mobile app. Google Forms Doc Google Sheets Doc |
AuthorAs a teacher and community advocate I strive to remedy the challenges of adverse childhood experiences (ACE), poverty and violence. I'm intrigued by the motivation that is cultivated by different supportive and discouraging learning environment, and how overcoming the achievement gap can transform our society. Archives
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