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Fall 2024

CEP 810 - Teaching Understanding with Technology - Debbie McHorney-Enokian

This course emphasized theories of learning and understanding, while also introducing me to the TPAK framework. My peers and I were expected to potentially change our mindsets around teaching with technology and apply these changes to our practices. Another key component of this course was identifying and expanding our current Professional Learning Community (PLC). Taking this course at the beginning of my journey towards earning my master's degree was the perfect time to recognize the expansion in my PLC. Through this course I created an educational blog that allowed me to express my interpretation of how educators can teach for understanding using technology. 

CEP 814 - Computational Thinking K12 Education - William Marsland

The focus of this course was computational thinking and how often it is used in my everyday teaching practices. Each unit of this course intensely focused on a different computational thinking skill (abstraction, decomposition, algorithms, etc.). Each week I created a lesson for my grade level context focusing on the specific skill. To wrap the unit up, I created a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) lesson for 1st graders that included multiple of the computational thinking skills and intentionally integrated coding and programming into the content. Besides computational thinking skills, this course heavily reinforced the ability to take content and directly apply it to my practice. 

Spring 2025

CEP 812- Apply Educational Technology to Practice - Nicole Zumpano

After completing this course, I am able to use technology to deeply think about, conduct research on, and provide suggestions for change when facing current challenges in the educational setting and/or technology use. During the course I was asked to think of a "wicked problem" -- a problem without one clear solution. Then I created, conducted, and analyzed a survey around this problem, allowing me to create media sharing my ideas around tackling this problem. Through this course, I was able to complete research, analyze data, and create meaningful information that supported my wicked problem. 

CEP 824 - Programming Concepts K12 Education - William Marsland

This course not only introduced me to a variety of programming tools such as Scratch, Python, and Pencil Code, but allowed me to work with and become familiar with them. There was opportunity to create with the previously mentioned programming tools specifically for each student's grade level context. The course also emphasized the pedagogy of computer science, allowing students to grapple with misconceptions, understand how to scaffold, and transition students from visual programming tools, such as Scratch, to text based programming tools such as Python. This course challenged me to push my programming abilities (which I had none of before starting this program) to create programs and lessons that can be used for educational purposes. 

Summer 2025

CEP 833 - Creativity in K12 Computing Education - William Marsland

This course focused on using technology creatively in the educational setting and create a learning environment that values and promotes creativity in students. This course focused on programming tools that were text based, such as Sonic Pi. Students in this course were also asked to use Micro:Bit to create lessons and models of student projects that could be used in our grade level context. Up until this point in my master's program I was strengthening my coding abilities, but at the completion of this course I am now able to be creative and take risks during my programming. 

CEP 815 - Technology and Leadership - Kyle Shack

Throughout this course, I was given opportunities to strengthen my leadership abilities, specifically around being a technology leader. Learning centered around sharing new technologies, navigating apprehension around technology, and professional development creation. At the conclusion of this course, I created a professional development that users can complete at their own pace and at varying levels of familiarity with the content. By simultaneously working on leadership while applying it to technology, I am able to look at problems in practice and create solutions through the lens of leading educators through it. 

Fall 2025

CEP 800 - Learning in School and Other Settings - Blair Stamper

The purpose of this course was to dive deeper into different schools of thinking around learning. Concepts like behaviorism, cognitivism, and adult learning are a few examples of the theories of learning we studied. As a culmination of everything that I learned, I processed and wrote my own theory of learning. This course not only strengthen my knowledge and understanding of widely accepted theories of learning but gave me pause to see what I believe about learning for all -- not just students in school, but for lifelong learning.  

CEP 811 - Adapting Innovative Technology to Education - Megan Garza

Through this course, I was taught to create in a just and ethical way while using my own materials or remixing the work of others. Constructivism and constructionism heavily  guided creations and analysis of other works. In a nontraditional format, our "text" in this course was an innovative technology of my choosing that I would explore, create, and challenge myself with to make content that is appropriate for my grade level. This course challenged me to experiment with a "new to me" technology and furthered my understanding of TPAK.

Spring 2026

CEP 822 - Approaches to Educational Research - Cary Roseth

During this course, I was able to learn about alternative research methods while identifying researchable topics in education. I was also able to develop a research proposal. Focus was put on being able to identify the difference between qualitative and qualitative approaches, and being able to interpret the personal experiences others have while using technology.  This course strengthened my researching abilities, as well as my ability to analyze the data.

CEP 807 - Capstone - Matthew Koehler & Megan Eikey 

To culminate everything I learned throughout my master's program, my Capstone required me to create a website. This website showcases my creations from my previous courses, highlights my professional abilities, and shares my future goals for my career. Besides a physical creation of the website, the course largely emphasized peer feedback and taught how to give meaningful, constructive criticism to peers.