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I designed a unit in which my students engaged in extensive research on a topic of their choice in order to achieve "expert" status. I am particularly proud of this work because it allowed students to take the lead on the project and follow their own questions on their path to knowledge. Letting go of control in the classroom is difficult for me, but this project allowed me to see the benefits of student-centered education. While it has yet to feel natural to me, I continue to work on letting go of control through projects inspired by this I-Search.
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In this program, I worked extensively with maker culture and how we can use it to enhance our classrooms and learning spaces. Along the way, I developed a love for Piktochart and the unique way it allowed me to present information. The infographic introduces maker education and how it works. For the lesson plan, I developed a class unit on Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close to put maker education theories to practice.
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I learned that that wicked problems have no easy solutions, but they are a part of education. In the overview, I explained what makes a problem wicked and why failure as a learning mode fits the description. In the problem analysis, I conducted research among my staff concerning their understanding of technology and its role in addressing this problem and analyzed my results. I'm proud of this because I really believe that this wicked problem needs to be addressed in education, but to ignore the role that teachers and their sense of efficacy have can be detrimental to this process.
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I pushed outside of my comfort zone to develop online content for our classes. I chose to work with a unit in my Honors College Writing and Literature curriculum that addresses Albert Camus's The Plague, changing the format of the course so that it is partially flipped. This took tremendous amounts of rethinking and redesigning, but I'm proud of the final product. It really forced me to look at what I ask my students to do for my class and what kind of meaning this work holds. |
Module Overview
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