In our overseas cohort, through the Master of Arts in Educational Technology program, all students collectively contribute to “the news” each week. For our final week of the news, our year two class wanted to wish the program goodbye, and remixed the famous Sound of Music song, “So long, farewell.”
I recently engaged in a project where I became a tech consultant for a classmate. We swapped our problems, and tried to solve them for each other. I was fortunate to be partnered with Drew Missureli, an experienced high school math teacher in California. Drew’s Problem of Practice: One struggle I find while teaching my… Read More Trig Problem: Solved
In our final group assignment for the Master of Arts in Educational Technology program, we had to develop, plan, implement, and analyze a research project. Myself, Michele Meshover and Drew Missureli chose to dive into the effectiveness of different co-teaching models. Given our constraints, constructing and disseminating the project in less than one month, we had… Read More Research 101: Co-Teaching
The year two students in our Master of Arts in Educational Technology program recently put on an international technology conference in Galway, Ireland. We were responsible for all aspects of planning, coordinating, and executing this event. We were also responsible for putting on a session individually during the conference. After creating our committees and determining the… Read More #GREAT16 Conference
SLAM. Ok, let’s start over. A Demo SLAM is a tech demonstration, sped up, and done in front of a live, engaged audience. At the end, the presenter must say “SLAM” and the audience echoes it back. The Demo SLAM was created by Google, and people do this at home, and create short videos, as… Read More EDpuzzle Demo SLAM
Scrolling through twitter one year ago, I noticed A1. and Q4: and I noticed #edchat and #flipclass. As I’ve moved from lurker to engager, I took on the role of moderator this summer, to host a Twitter Chat. In my coursework this summer, I am serving as a consultant for a classmate, Drew Missureli, to… Read More Flying into Uncharted Techspace
Problem of Practice In my classroom, my problem of practice is finding a method or model to utilize in my Response to Intervention Math Lab classes. Currently, my students struggle to stay engaged in both hours of math during the day. As an intervention teacher, I have to both teach the current content, and work to… Read More Instructional Design: Incorporating TPACK
QUICKFIRE! It is day 2 of year 2 and already we’ve been challenged with several quickfires. Today’s theme centered around visual/conceptual understands regarding misconceptions in education, TPACK and tech integration in schools. First, we discussed the introduction to Daniel T. Willingham’s book When Can You Trust the Experts? and more specifically, what misconceptions exist in… Read More Quick[er]fire!
Six weeks. Eleven classmates. Two professors. One career-altering experience. Over the course of six weeks, my perspective on teaching and technology have been permanently altered. Before MAET, I believed in adding technology into my lessons. Today, I believe in the TPACK framework, that asks teachers to integrate technology, pedagogy and content meaningfully. To not plan a lesson, then integrate technology; but to plan a… Read More My Dream Space: That’s a Wrap!
In his book, The Anti-Education ERA, James Paul Gee asks: “What if human minds are not meant to think for themselves by themselves, but, rather, to integrate with tools and other people’s minds to make a mind of minds?” (Gee, 2013, p. 153). Gee calls this group of minds Minds. Gee (2013) says that a… Read More Networked Learning Project: Grilling Complete!
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