Welcome to my showcase. I have assembled some of my work as model examples for what I have developed and/or created during my Master of Arts in Educational Technology (MAET) program. The work featured falls into several main categories that help define and characterize what it means to learn and educate as we progress away from “classical” education. The major categories found below are 21st century learning, meaning the new curriculum and skills to learn in a modern classroom, the Maker Movement, which involves a focus on project based learning, and Leadership, examples which developed my skills as a thought leader in education. Please find a description as well as an example of my work below.
21st Century Learning
Online Classroom
I created a hybrid online classroom that focused on the topic of evolution for a high school biology class. This means that this site is to be used in conjunction for in class lectures/meetings. This site is intended to showcase my ability of developing an online multi-lesson unit that uses self-authored material in conjunction with found material for introductory, flipped, and classic lecturing opportunities that utilizes both formative and summative assessment. This also acts as an example of what learning can be in the 21st century; as companies and teachers become more familiar with the affordances of technology, online education will become more common.
21st Century Problem of Practice & Solution
I had several opportunities to collaborate with colleagues throughout the course of the MAET program. On one such collaboration, as a way of practicing Design Thinking, a critical thinking methodology for problem solving from the Stanford Design School, we looked at how the practice of teaching may need to adjust to accommodate new technologies and ways of thinking about learning for the 21st century. We then created a website for the format of the presentation that showcased 21st century learning opportunities and technologies to assist with the process of rethinking what it means to teach. These act as models to show, not just newly developed skills, but newly developed thinking that exemplifies 21st century learning.
21st Century Lesson Plan
This is an exemplar lesson that focuses on digital literacy and collaboration, both of which are components described by The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). ISTE has been a significant contributor to this, and many other examples in terms of a new curriculum to include to prepare learners for a technology based society. This lesson serves as a potential example of how learning should also include opportunities for students to synthesize their own learning.
The Maker Movement
Maker Culture
This video I created about the Maker Movement, a grassroots movement that promotes exploratory learning by doing, exemplifies, not only my own attempt at the the Maker Movement in a digital format, but also my ability to incorporate multimedia for an end product.
Maker Creation – Makey Makey Kit
This set of projects are a combination of Design Thinking paired with the Maker Movement. This example highlights a teacher’s need to repurpose material from one activity, or technology, to another.
Leadership
The SAMR Model of Thinking
This acts as an example of leadership and new thinking in terms of arguing for the adoption of new technologies under a mission based approach. It incorporates the use of the SAMR model for technology integration, meaning is the technology being used for transformation or enhancement of a task?
Vision Statement
This vision statement was created to argue for the adoption of new technologies at a high school. It supports a new way of thinking of technology, but also acts as an example of work for reaching out to a school community to raise awareness and “buy in” for a new program.
Learning Tech with Luck 