Apply Technology to Solve Instructional Problems
- Plans and design effective learning environments and experiences supported by technology
- Applies technology to facilitate a variety of effective assessment and evaluation strategies
- Demonstrates understanding of social, ethical, legal, and human issues surrounding the use of technology and applies it in practice
Planning and designing a tutorial on how to use MakeBeliefsComix helped me show others how technology can be utilized within education in cross-curricular subjects in EDCI 56800: Applications of the Internet. By creating this tutorial, I had to plan and design to meet all different types of learners while utilizing a new Web 2.0 too. When designing this tutorial I also learned how to create a tutorial in iMovie as well as utilize sound editing such as Audacity. It’s interesting because it really doesn’t take long to develop projects with technology. When I completed this tutorial, it was uploaded to YouTube for all to see in any environment. In the tutorial, I explain within five minutes how to create comics in the web 2.0 tool, MakeBeliefsComix, and the benefits it has for teachers and students while incorporating 21st Century skills proving that I can create an environment supported by technology.
I also have applied technology to facilitate a variety of effective assessment and evaluation strategies when I created an evaluation plan for a school district in EDCI 57700: Strategic Assessment and Evaluation. Evaluations were done on a face-to-face training and online modules for comprehension strategies. Reaction surveys of the participants were collected and analyzed using Microsoft Excel that was easily transformed into charts for reports. Further evaluations were done for learning the objectives of the training and transfer of learning on a question to question analysis. Each individual question was analyzed for the percentage correct and incorrect and also incorporated into a chart. This allows instruction to be improved in order for learners to achieve the objectives in the future. In addition technology was used in this project when the evaluation plan of the instruction was developed utilizing a Web 2.0 tool, Tom’s Planner, to create a timeline of what evaluation tools need to be developed as well as the timeframe of the results. This allows the client and the instructional designer to view what has or has not been accomplished on an evaluation project for instruction at any time. When I first started the instructional design program, I didn’t realize how important it is to evaluate instruction and the tools available to make the process easier and organized. So much information can be collected, analyzed, and reported for the client, instructional designer, and learner to determine if training was a success.
Using technology creates the need to understand the social, ethical, legal and human issues surrounding the use of it. In fact in order to form my final definition of an exemplary technology educator vision I stated how it’s important for the educator to teach learners to be responsible using technology. This responsibility should entail how all data is stored on searches done with the web browser to citing material that is retrieved from the internet. In addition I added that an exemplary technology educator should also talk about responsibility to learners such as not texting and driving. Many of these issues were brought to my attention within this course by reading the PowerPoint on Cybersecurity by Bob Evans from Purdue. Not everyone realizes how searches or comments could have negative connotations connected to them. Young adults are even less to realize, in my opinion, the implications of their actions when being irresponsible with technology and the damaging effects, for example, if a negative comment is placed on Facebook or Twitter. I have taken this information regarding cybersecurity, ethics, and social responsibility and have shared it with other educators. This is important as more and more schools are getting involved with 21st Century Skills and one to one computing.
I also have applied technology to facilitate a variety of effective assessment and evaluation strategies when I created an evaluation plan for a school district in EDCI 57700: Strategic Assessment and Evaluation. Evaluations were done on a face-to-face training and online modules for comprehension strategies. Reaction surveys of the participants were collected and analyzed using Microsoft Excel that was easily transformed into charts for reports. Further evaluations were done for learning the objectives of the training and transfer of learning on a question to question analysis. Each individual question was analyzed for the percentage correct and incorrect and also incorporated into a chart. This allows instruction to be improved in order for learners to achieve the objectives in the future. In addition technology was used in this project when the evaluation plan of the instruction was developed utilizing a Web 2.0 tool, Tom’s Planner, to create a timeline of what evaluation tools need to be developed as well as the timeframe of the results. This allows the client and the instructional designer to view what has or has not been accomplished on an evaluation project for instruction at any time. When I first started the instructional design program, I didn’t realize how important it is to evaluate instruction and the tools available to make the process easier and organized. So much information can be collected, analyzed, and reported for the client, instructional designer, and learner to determine if training was a success.
Using technology creates the need to understand the social, ethical, legal and human issues surrounding the use of it. In fact in order to form my final definition of an exemplary technology educator vision I stated how it’s important for the educator to teach learners to be responsible using technology. This responsibility should entail how all data is stored on searches done with the web browser to citing material that is retrieved from the internet. In addition I added that an exemplary technology educator should also talk about responsibility to learners such as not texting and driving. Many of these issues were brought to my attention within this course by reading the PowerPoint on Cybersecurity by Bob Evans from Purdue. Not everyone realizes how searches or comments could have negative connotations connected to them. Young adults are even less to realize, in my opinion, the implications of their actions when being irresponsible with technology and the damaging effects, for example, if a negative comment is placed on Facebook or Twitter. I have taken this information regarding cybersecurity, ethics, and social responsibility and have shared it with other educators. This is important as more and more schools are getting involved with 21st Century Skills and one to one computing.