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MA in Educational Technology Courses
MA in Educational Technology Learning Concepts
MA in Educational Technology Key Learning Strategies
Self-Reflections from My Journey
Fun Facts About My Journey
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This class taught me about the many differences in students: socio-economic, ethnic and cultural, physical, ability level, and how we as teachers need to teach in a way to help all of our diverse learners.
What is ED 507 "Diversity in Education?"
100
This concept has to do with the type of learners we want our students to become.
What are life-long learners?
100
This important strategy can be done either in a formative or a summative way, as well as formally and informally. It helps a teacher see where the student's knowledge-base is, and if the student understands a concept.
What is assessment?
100
This is what I've gained in myself throughout this two-year journey.
What is confidence?
100
How often my husband messed up the settings on our smart television while I was online with my cohort.
What is once every single Monday?
200
This class reminded me how teachers are responsible for keeping their students safe, and both teachers and students have legal rights which must be protected.
What is ED 508 "Legal Ethical Issues in Education?"
200
This concept may be called student-centered learning since the goal is to make individual learning needs the primary consideration in making instructional decisions. This type of learning increases student participation, motivation, and learning.
What is personalization?
200
Going to students' sporting or musical events, greeting them in the hallway, talking to them, and noticing things about them is involved in this learning strategy which increases student motivation and learning as well as increasing appropriate behavior.
What is creating a caring classroom atmosphere?
200
This important skill helped me to juggle all my activities in order to get them all finished on time.
What is time management?
200
How many times I was given the ball to be a group leader during our online discussions.
What is one?
300
This class gave me my first look at a flipped classroom and challenged each of us to create a flipped lesson.
What is ET 510 "Virtual Classroom?"
300
This key concept embraces the mantra, "Two heads are better than one," and helps teachers' effectiveness by giving them other professional educators with which to collaborate.
What is a professional learning community?
300
This key learning strategy involves working together in physical classroom groups or online. It is a 21st Century skill which all students need.
What is collaboration?
300
I've learned I love this more than ever as I took course after course after course.
What is learning? (no, not coffee)
300
These computers, which we had in our school when I first started teaching, started my love for technology and thus were indirectly responsible for me getting my Masters in Educational Technology.
What are Commodore Pet computers?
400
I used Screencast-O-Matic to create a tutorial on Capzles, one of the technology tools explored in this class.
What is ET 505 "Exploring Classroom Tech Tools?"
400
This key learning concept helps us determine how to choose the proper technology to incorporate into our lessons, so technology is used meaningfully and not as a filler or distractor.
What is after first determining the lesson objectives?
400
This important learning concept must be taught to all levels of students, and teachers should not just assume students know how to be responsible with the use of technology.
What is Digital Citizenship?
400
This is the only profession or career I can imagine doing because it is so much fun, and I enjoy being able to use everything I have learned throughout this journey to get my masters.
What is teaching?
400
This is where I spent much of my time writing my Capstone paper.
What is in the bleachers at the high school gym?
500
In this class I created a school technology plan, compared costs of technology, and made a technology implementation plan for my school. I also learned what True Cost of Ownership is.
What is ET 515 "Professional Development & Leadership in Educational Technology?"
500
This concept made us realize buying the technology for our classrooms is not the only cost involved for our schools.
What is True Cost of Ownership?
500
This learning strategy involves finding and using technology tools to individualize and personalize learning for all students no matter what their physical or mental abilities.
What is Universal Design for Learning?
500
This is a big reason why I am sad this journey is over.
What is because I will miss collaborating with and learning from my fellow cohort members.
500
This is how long it took me to write my first two page reflection after being out of college for 31 years.
What is over 30 hours?