Graduate Studies
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Music in the Classroom
I came across an interesting infographic in response to whether or not music played in the classroom (not music instruction, but music as background to work) has any affect on student achievement. There have been many reports on this over the years, and to be honest I have let my own experience as an elementary educator…
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Class Size Matters PSA
As a part of my online graduate studies in the area of Educational Technology, my assignment this week was to create a PSA (public service announcement) as a part of my Digital Storytelling class. The topic of the PSA was up to each student. I chose to do mine on one of my top three…
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Sample Distance Education Mini-Lesson
(This post is designed to meet the requirements for the Distance Education Mini-Lesson as assigned by GCU TEC 571) Lesson Format: Hybrid “A hybrid lesson is a combination of modalities and technology with face to face instruction.” I chose this format as it is closest to my actual teaching environment. The lesson is designed as…
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Instructional Design Principles and Distance Education
The following post has been prepared for GCU TEC-571 Distance Learning in Education and addresses the following prompt: “Select three instructional design principles (i.e., graphic cues, examples, combinations of instruction) that you feel should be more developed for learners within distance education courses.” My present academic experience in an online Masters program is my first…
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Objective Assessments
Are tests the only objective assessment of student learning? “If assessment is to be a positive force in education, it must be implemented properly. It cannot be used to merely sort students or to criticize education. Its goals must be to improve education. Rather than ‘teach to the test,’ we must ‘test what we teach.’”…
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Technology Infused Classroom
When thinking about what a technology infused classroom looks like, I found I agreed with what the Innovative Designs for Education Corporation published as it’s 10 core principles of successful “learner-active, technology-infused” (LATI) classrooms: Learning from a Felt Need High Academic Standards Higher-Order, Open-Ended Problem-Solving Student Responsibility for Learning Connected Learning Collaboration Individual Learning Paths…
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Visual Literacy & the Internet
Visual Literacy is not a new concept. As a matter of fact it was concept given a name in 1969 by writer and educator John L. Debes. To put it simply, visual literacy is defined as the ability to make meaning from what we see. The fact that this concept was around before the Internet…
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21st Century Learning
The instructional strategies we use with your students are very important. Like our students, our instructional strategies can be quite diverse. Any teacher knows that having a wide assortment of instructional strategies in your teacher toolbox is very handy indeed. However, many of our strategies can be ‘dated’ and need to be UP-dated in order…
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21st Century Learners
I am presently attending online classes at Grand Canyon University to earn my Master’s in Educational Technology and I am very excited about the way it is already getting me thinking. It was just what I had hoped for in bringing back some of my passion for teaching had been killed due to the drastic…
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