MAET COURSEWORK
This page provides an overview to the learning experiences I had the opportunity to participate in throughout my time in Michigan State University's Master's of Educational Technology program.
CEP810: Teaching for Understanding with Technology
Emily Stone & Ron Houtman | Summer 2016
CEP810 exposed me to experiences that pushed me to think beyond using technology because it new and exciting, and shifted my focus to what kinds of experiences do I need to be providing to students in the classroom to maximize their learning potential. Big take-aways include allowing students the opportunity to drive their own learning through authentic problems and self-reflection, and that the role of the educator is to support them in their efforts rather than direct them. It also opened my eyes to the value of creating content and participating in a learning community as opposed to just consuming content.
CEP811: Adapting Innovative Technologies in Education
Amy Pietrowski | Summer 2016
For me, CEP811 was all about the power of "making". I spent a lot of time learning and reflecting on maker-based education, and thought deeply about the authenticity behind making for a real audience and the value of getting real feedback from that community. CEP811 also helped me come to realization that reflection on your work after you've received feedback from an authentic audience is one of the most powerful learning experiences you can expose yourself to. The take-away: students in my class will be making and sharing their work.
CEP812: Applying Educational Technology to Issues of Practice
Bill Marsland & Edie Erickson | Summer 2016
CEP812 was focused on tackling "wicked problems" (or large, complex issues) in education. Much of the course was group work focused around a specific wicked problem. My group's problem of focus was "Re-thinking Teaching in the 21st Century". Through tackling our wicked problem, I learned the power of asking questions, the importance of relevant research, and strategies to collaborate through technology both synchronously and asynchronously.
CEP800: Learning in School and Other Settings
Chin-Hsi Lin | Fall 2016
CEP800 was about diving deeply into what learning really is, and was about developing a thorough philosophy about how people learn. The course helped me to define learning as a change in behavior or thinking. The experiences in the course pushed me to some powerful realizations such as learners beings active builders of knowledge and as opposed to passive consumers, and to recognize that there is a significant disconnect between how we teach students in schools and how learning takes place in the real world. CEP800 also lead me to realize how important it is to make education personal, authentic, and an active process for learners.
TE831: Teaching School Subject Matter with Technology
Doug Hartman | Spring 2017
TE831 was all about learning how to get the most out of technology in your classroom. Throughout the course, I was exposed to many new technology tools that I can employ in different learning settings. It is great to have a toolbox full of different technologies that can be incorporated into a curriculum, but the tools themselves were not the main take-away from the course. TE831 was focused on making the technology work for you and your students, not the other way around. In other words, it's not what technology you are using, but how you are using it. TE831 helped me to better understand philosophies of integrating technologies into education such as TPACK and SAMR.
CEP820: Teaching Students Online
Anne Heintz & Carmen Richardson | Spring 2017
CEP820 was about building engaging and effective online learning curriculums. The bulk of the work in the course was dedicated to creating our own online course, and evaluating the online courses of others. Major themes in the course were equity, accessibility, personalization, communication, and feedback, but all through the lens of learning in a digital environment.
Creativity in Crisis (transfered from The Art of Ed)
Amber Kane | Spring 2017
The course, Creativity in Crisis, was built around Sir Ken Robinson's book, Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative. As the name implies, much of the learning in the course was geared toward addressing what Sir Ken Robinson calls the "creativity crisis" in the education system. Through the course, I learned about the impact creativity has on individuals, schools, communities, and the world. It gave me insights into the importance of helping teachers and students find their creative voice, and how I can embrace my own.
CEP815: Technology & Leadership
Kyle Shack & Rohit Mehta | Summer 2017
CEP815 played a large role in helping me to shape my vision for the future of education. Throughout the course, we studied many thought provoking articles about what it means to be a leader, what the most effective strategies are to inspire change, and how to best communicate a clear vision for the future. Through the coursework, I was able to identify my strengths and weaknesses as a leader, and was able to build a strategy on how I can continue to improve my skills so that I may better lead education into our technology-based interconnected future.
CEP822: Approaches to Educational Research
Cui Cheng | Summer 2017
CEP822 was a challenging course that pushed me to delve into the world of educational research, a topic that I had little experience with before the course. The coursework was challenging and forced me to engage in deep educational research practice through studying scholarly journals, and actually conducting some of my own research. The course was extremely valuable in helping me to understand the process of education research, so that I will be better able to draw on research to inform my teaching strategies and policy decisions moving forward.
CEP807: Proseminar / Capstone in Educational Technology
Matthew Koehler | Summer 2017
CEP807 was the culmination of all the rigorous coursework involved in achieving my Master's of Educational Technology degree from Michigan State. This portfolio is the final product of this course. Creating it has provided me the opportunity to reflect on my growth throughout the program, and build a cohesive vision of who I am as an educator, and how I want to lead education into the future.