I feel like I am at a pivotal point with my Capstone and this Masters program. I have learned so much, and am continuing to bring things together. I feel like I am in a reflective stage, trying to determine how to connect the dots and how to think through the best way to design my Capstone so that it provides information, and is easy to use for teachers.
Evolving as an Innovative Thinker This course has made me think very differently about how to present, teach and share information. When I have mentioned that my masters is in Innovative Learning, I get a lot of different questions. "What is that? What is it like?" Having just spent some time with Visible Learning for Literacy the past month with Becky, I'd like to couch my learning from this program in Surface, Deep, and Transfer Learning. Surface Learn about the technology tools that are out there, many of them, play with them, vet them and determine which are the best tool for the right time with students and teachers. Learn about how to become a researcher, and all the nuances that go with compiling and finalizing a research paper. Learn about Instructional Design; many types, variations, and iterations. Learn about current research Deep Taking my surface knowledge and thinking about how to acquire it at a deeper level (understand it), and consolidate it. Now what do I do with this, where can I use this information and how can I connect these different learning TOGETHER. Transfer This is where the fun part comes in, hence my reference to the Calm before the Storm! Applying my different forms of research, knowledge on Instructional Design, and understanding of technology tools to my Capstone. The culmination. Can I take all of this together and make it clear, concise, and meaningful . I spent a good chunk of time this week working through the designing prototype document and revising my prototype to think about how to make it the best it can be. There are so many swirling resources I feel like I am muddying the waters. One of the areas where teachers get stuck is when to move out of the surface and into the deep, every student is different and ready at different times. One of the questioning strategies is called Funneling and Focusing, funneling questions have their place usually in Surface, but Focusing questions allow for deeper learning (ex: what was the setting of the story (funneling) vs. how did the setting influence the story (focusing). It is being able to not just understand the setting, but be able to know how it influenced the story. THIS is what I want to achieve with my capstone website, at least get teachers beyond the surface. I realize Transfer has to happen when they can apply it to another subject area, etc...SO, the goal is for my capstone to at least take teachers through the Surface, and Deep levels of learning, and then thinking of continuous, ongoing learning, with reflection, that would then take them to the Transfer level. Like I said, calm-ish before the storm!
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Joseph Hall
5/1/2017 05:06:12 pm
I also feel like I have become better at presenting, sharing, and teaching information. This course has helped be focus on design, which has improved my presentations and evaluations of student's presentations. In addition, I have also learned engaging web 2.0 tools to help share and teach information.
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Diane
5/1/2017 09:47:51 pm
I like the title of your blog! I believe it is important to go deeper and beyond the surface. I also would like to understand the implementation of technology in my classroom at a deeper level. I think it takes time, trial, and error.
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