Background<\/b><\/p>\n
It\u2019s kind of hard to say that I\u2019m really from one place anymore. I was born in Canada and completed the majority of my schooling there, however, I spent a large portion of my childhood in the Middle East and over the past 13 years I\u2019ve lived in Mexico, Central America, South America, South Korea, Japan and Thailand.<\/p>\n
My original undergraduate education was in Business with a major in Finance, but for the past decade I have been working as a teacher; at the beginning, I was mostly teaching ESL but now I am mostly teaching content at a university in Thailand.\u00a0 Along the way, I\u2019ve taught in a variety of settings, including but not limited to: kindergarten, private academies, public and private elementary schools, corporate training, and adult education. At the moment, I am mostly teaching communication and introductory classes to the faculties of Business, Engineering, and Communication Arts; however I occasionally teach Academic Writing and 1st\u00a0year English.<\/p>\n
This is my 2nd\u00a0year in the MET program and I am taking two courses this semester; I am also taking ETEC 510 and completed both 511 and 512 last semester. My reasons for entering the program were twofold: first of all, I want to improve my ability to use technology to enhance the quality of education in my classes; secondly, I would eventually like to work in the development of serious games and the use of augmented reality for learning.<\/p>\n
Goals for ETEC 565A<\/b><\/p>\n
The title for this course is ETEC 565A \u2013 Learning Technologies: Selection, Design and Application; the reason that I am taking this course is to develop my skills in these three areas.<\/p>\n
Selection<\/b><\/p>\n
As the rate of technology increases in a Kurzweil-like fashion, the growth of educational technology products has also increased. Once-new technologies such as facebook and WebCT are constantly being replaced by newer technologies, and as such, there is a need for educators to be able to correctly evaluate and incorporate these technologies into the learning environment. So far this semester I have already learned about the NETS and ISTE standards, as well as SECTIONS, and I look forward to developing my ability to use these standards through applying them to learning management systems (LMSs) and other learning technologies to evaluate the usage of technology in education.<\/p>\n
Design<\/b><\/p>\n
At the moment, my technical skills are pretty limited, so this is the area that I am mostly interested in; I am hoping to improve my design skills through the LMS module and digital media projects, in the hope that I will be able to transfer the design skills I gain through these projects towards the development of other educational technologies. Furthermore, I am looking forward to learning about different ways to incorporate the use of formative assessment through learning technologies.<\/p>\n
Application<\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
As stated earlier, my technological skills in the classroom are quite basic aside from my usage of wikis to set up hybrid learning environments; up until now I\u2019ve worked under the assumption that my university students are more advanced in their ability to use new technologies than I am -and I\u2019ve been proven correct! Because of this, I am looking forward to being able to not only incorporate technologies such as Moodle and online collaboration tools into the learning environment, but also to learn how to re-design lessons so that the technologies improve the quality of the lesson or module.<\/p>\n
Resources:<\/b><\/p>\n
Bates, A.W. & Poole, G. (2003). Chapter 4: a Framework for Selecting and Using Technology. In\u00a0Effective Teaching with Technology in Higher Education: Foundations for Success. (pp. 77-105)<\/i>. San Francisco: Jossey Bass Publishers.<\/p>\n
Kurzweil, R. (2005).\u00a0The Singularity is Near<\/i>. New York: Viking Books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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