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A Journey in Learning

Michigan State University
Masters of Arts in Educational Technology
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I Think I Can!
What a start to the 2021-2022 school year this has been. This year should seem like a breeze: I am teaching only 5th grade, I have a...
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Nov 8, 20211 min read
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Student Teaching
If you're a teacher, perhaps you remember your first time leading a lesson in the classroom or your first year teaching. I know I do and...
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Oct 28, 20211 min read
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My Favorite Course
My favorite course thus far while procuring my Masters of Arts in Educational Technology was CEP 833 Creativity in K-12 Computing...
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Oct 27, 20212 min read
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3D Printing and Coding
I loved the idea of incorporating the 3D printer and the Circuit Playground into a math unit. I decided to allow students to play around...
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Oct 27, 20211 min read
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Schema Theory
When learning something new, we hope to master whatever it is we are working towards learning. When we start the process of learning we...
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Jun 1, 20212 min read
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Habitual Habits
Every morning, I wake up, workout, shower, dress, apply makeup, make breakfast, wake up my children, eat breakfast, pack lunches, pack...
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May 25, 20213 min read
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Passion Quotient (PQ), Curiosity Quotient (CQ), and Intelligent Quotient (IQ)
Throughout CEP 812, students have been pushed to think about ways to increase questioning in their lives. This is something I am...
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Apr 26, 20211 min read
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A Comprehensive Study: Encouraging Risk Taking in Elementary Students
Throughout CEP 812, I learned about ways others have found solutions to problems. The end goal of CEP 812 was to initiate a question,...
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Apr 21, 20211 min read
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A Wicked Question
Think back to a time where you were in a class and a teacher asked a question. How many people raised their hand or jumped up and down to...
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Apr 8, 20211 min read
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Sketchnote Brainstorm
In my classroom and in my MAET program, sketchnote style videos are something I watch frequently. I have always found the combination of...
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Mar 31, 20212 min read
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Creating Beautiful Questions
I started on a new, required for an MSU course, book this weekend A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough...
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Mar 24, 20213 min read
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Anxiety in the Classroom
Have you ever been in a situation where you are afraid that you will be singled out from the crowd? Or sitting in class so worried that...
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Mar 17, 20212 min read
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Are splits beneficial?
I am a 4th and 5th grade teacher at a public school in Northern Michigan. This is my second year teaching the 4th and 5th split (putting...
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Mar 8, 20211 min read
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An Image A Day
In the beginning of cep 811 we were asked to take a picture every day. The reasoning for this wasn’t shared and the project details were...
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Dec 12, 20202 min read
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My Dream Classroom
If you could create your dream classroom what would it look like? This week in my masters class CEP 811, we played around with design...
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Dec 8, 20203 min read
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Innovative Learning Experience
In my fourth and fifth grade split classroom, I have created an innovative lesson plan to teach students to use a Prusa 3D printer. In...
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Dec 1, 20203 min read
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Universal Design for Learning
Universal Design for Learning, UDL, is an approach to teaching and learning. To plan a UDL lesson start by determining the goal(s) and...
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Nov 24, 20202 min read
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Media Consumption
In CEP 811, I was challenged to broaden my media consumption to include new sources of information. These sources were not to be...
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Nov 19, 20202 min read
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Creative Commons
What is Creative Commons? I want you to imagine a scenario where you have spent time and energy making a creation; an essay, image,...
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Nov 9, 20202 min read
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Learning from Failing
What is failure? Merriam-Webster defines it as the, “omission of occurrence or performance. Specifically : a failing to perform a duty or...
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Nov 5, 20203 min read
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