This page will discuss my thoughts and reflection on the information I have learned in IDET 4300. It will cover the skills that I have obtained and what I plan on utilizing in my future classroom, as well as practices I will implement in my teaching style.
My ISTE Computational Thinking learning journey has revealed to me that:
There is much more to teaching technology than I originally thought. Growing up, learning about technology was only about learning how to type or how to use Microsoft word and PowerPoint. This has taught me that there is so much more to it. From different ways we can wrap our lessons around technology to lead students to be empowered learners and to drive their own learning.
The top artifacts I would first recommend reviewing:
Learner - I chose the learner artifact because it is the very first thing I did in this class, and the first things I put into this portfolio. It is a great base of what my portfolio is going to consist of, and how this portfolio is going to expand.
Facilitator- I believe the facilitator artifact is great because it is where I actually went out to an elementary school and taught my lesson to students. It showed how actual students respond to different things, and how the lessons actually went.
My top 5 future learning goals include:
Learning more about technology. For instance, learning different resources like I did with the adobe express text to image tool. Even learning how to teach using technology as more than just PowerPoints.
Learning how to be prepared for everything, or being flexible when technology doesn't work as it was intended. To try to always have a backup plan in the case technology doesn't work as hoped or when technology can't be used at all.
Learning more about how to incorporate technology into my future lessons.
Possibly keeping up with blogs so I can always go back and update and use lessons again. It would be a great way of organizing lessons.
Always being open to new ideas with technology. How to use different programs more effectively, which new programs I could use, or more ways to incorporate it into my future classroom.