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Introduction
Welcome to my Master of Arts in Educational Technology (MAET) showcase!
Throughout the last year, I learned about the critical role of technology in education. I have poured my thoughts into the countless projects, essays, and activities that have allowed me to demonstrate my understanding of the educational technology world. I've included examples of my work from my year in the program below; feel free to explore! I categorized my work into three categories: technology in practice in the classroom, creativity in practice as a learner and teacher, and re-designing the practice of teaching and transforming education. These areas are the backbone of why I chose this path into educational technology and its use in my teaching practice. I'd like you to explore the artifacts below and learn more about what I have accomplished.
Technology in Practice
Technology in Practice
In this category, you will find artifacts demonstrating technology use in practice. These artifacts showcase the resources I have created in the MAET program. Throughout the program, I wanted to create meaningful educational technology resources within the world of social studies that have a useful purpose in my classroom to help students learn.
New technology and social studies came to life within this blog post! I had the challenge of incorporating a maker space tool into a lesson that allowed students to integrate technology into the activity and aided the learning process. In this artifact, I demonstrate my ability to use technology and creativity to assist students' critical thinking skills while understanding the learning objectives of the content.
Let's hit the road! I had the challenge of bringing engagement back to the forefront in my classroom, with technology leading the way in this lesson. In this artifact, I demonstrate my ability to use technology and creativity to have students' element in the planning of a 1950s road trip using the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System and the roads of the present day while undressing the importance of highways.
Networking skills come to life as one learns new skills with online resources! I had the challenge of using digital resources to help me learn something new. With the internet at my fingertips, blogs, websites, YouTube videos, Facebook pages, and more aid my research to teach me how to crochet. This artifact showcases my journey of discovering how to pick up this new hobby and how I refined my research skills.
Creativity in Practice
Creativity in Practice
In this category, you will find artifacts demonstrating creativity in practice. These artifacts showcase the resources I have created in the MAET program. Throughout the program, I wanted to create meaningful creative experiences for learning that transform their ideas and allow for authentic creative opportunities. Let's bring creativity and play back into the classroom!
Imagine taking a topic and transforming how you see it. This reasoning was the idea behind this blog post, thinking outside the box and abstracting concepts. I had the challenge of taking a theme and creating new ways to transform it into a new way to think about it while still comprehending the same ideas. In this artifact, I brought authentic ideas to redesign how I looked at Presidential influence in various ways.
Transforming the idea of how we learn was the focus of this QuickFire activity. I never thought that I would be cooking as a way to learn. The concepts of the TPACK framework or Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge influenced this task. In this artifact, I combined my skillset to document this learning process with a video and blog post detailing my cooking journey with the TPACK framework.
Creativity is in the limelight as the ideas of presidential influence are uncovered. In this artifact, I demonstrated my creativity to create a representation to explain presidential influence with few constraints to allow for authentic creations. Throughout this QuickFire activity, critical thinking skills are tested, and what students have learned is shown.
Redesign the Practice
Redesign the Practice
In this category, you will find artifacts demonstrating the redesign of ideas in practice. These artifacts showcase the resources I have created in the MAET program. Throughout the program, I wanted to rethink and redesign how we look at lessons in the classroom, real-world problems, concepts, and how we revise with technology and ideas.
School Safety is a wicked problem that does not have a one-size-fits-all solution. This Wicked Problem Project brings the idea of the design thinking process to the forefront by redesigning how to look at complex and controversial problems with potential solutions. In this artifact, I provide context to this growing problem and how to find a better solution to this growing crisis affecting schools across the United States.
The Design Thinking Process changes how we view problems and their potential solutions. In this artifact, I was challenged with taking on a role within a scenario to fix a hypothetical situation. This blog post recaps those experiences and explains the impact of the design thinking process and the QuickFire experience to demonstrate how perspective helps a solution.
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