5. Designer

5a: Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster independent learning and accommodate learner differences and needs.

• Artifact: ISLT 9458 Assessment and Technology Final Project
  • One of the biggest lessons I learned from this program was in building assessments and understand what teachers value compared to students. This artifact demonstrates how the creation of project based assessments that focus on what both students and teachers value from the learning experience can create new and different experiences for all.

5b: Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning.

• Artifact: Causes of WWI Group Lab
  • This is an artifact from my U.S. History class that focuses on the use of Google Docs to collaborate on the causes of WWI. Students are asked to collaborate together on a document to demonstrate the immediate and long developing causes of WWI.

5c: Explore and apply instructional design principles to create innovative digital learning environments that engage and support learning.

• Artifact: Google Classroom Image #1, Google Classroom #2
  • I love the way that Canvas organizes information for me to learn. The design and organization of each class I have taken has created new learning experiences, helped me manage all of my work, and created an environment of support from my professor and classmates. I wanted to create the same thing in my high school history classes with Google Classroom. Above are images of my Google Classroom for U.S. History that show Classwork and Materials organized into Modules for learning, with a Stream for announcements on what is going to be covered on a daily basis.