Graduating Project
The Graduating Project should take the form of an e-portfolio. It should synthesize and apply knowledge and theories gained from courses taken in the MET program. It should meet the following criteria:
- Be integrative, through requiring generation/application of ideas across courses.
- Generate research findings and/or link theory/research to practice.
- Demonstrate an individual’s learning.
- Result in a concrete product that demonstrates linkages and applications.
- Be of personal use to the student and considered educationally valuable by an audience of professional peers.
Reflection
I have developed this eportfolio from a scientific vantage point, attempting to make sense of my journey in much the same way I interpret the world around me: formulating questions, incorporating new knowledge into current beliefs and assumptions and developing new understandings along the way to further guide my endeavours. The MET program has ignited in me a new interest in learning and has introduced me to entirely new learning processes and experiences that i will able to use both formally and informally in future to set an accomplish future professional and personal goals. I feel that I leave the program not only with developed insights soundly developed from theoretical standpoints, but also with a new confidence to interact with technology in new ways to foster learning opportunities not only in the classroom but also for myself.
My MET journey was not a true model of the scientific method in the true definition of the term. Most scientific methods always have a controlled variable that stays constant throughout. in a dynamic area such as education, there is no variable that remains constant. The fixed variable wouldn’t be myself either because of the developing of new understandings and shifted perspectives in my journey. The technology I used to carry out my investigation cannot be the fixed variable either as throughout my few years in the program, the available technologies transforms every day. The content has been continually evolving as I have moved through my MET program as with each new course a new group of dynamic individuals helps to shape and frame the experience. Although what I have experienced is not a living system, I look back at one of my first MET artifact, my Philosophy of Educational Technology, I firmly believe that the purpose of the Educational Technology is to prepare students with the competencies required to improve and develop quality and efficiencies in technology and media to allow them to contribute to all levels of education, research, business, industry and society. A constant variable is not amongst the definition of my beliefs. Upon completing my journey, I encourage students to take control of their own learning beginning with a reflection of their knowledge and experience to enable them to take a pro-active approach to constructing and developing their own instruction and journey through learning technology.
Artefact
My ETEC 590 e-Portfolio Proposal