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This page examines the courses that I took as part of Michigan State University’s (MSU) Master of Arts in Educational Technology (MAET) program. Courses are listed in chronological order, organized specifically by semester. For each course, the following is provided: course title, link to official MSU description, course instructor(s), and a brief description of my experience in the course.
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*Each course description is linked to Michigan State University's official website*
The following acronyms for courses are as follows:
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TE= Teacher Education
CEP= Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education
Fall
2014
TE 802: Reflection & Inquiry in Teaching Practices I
Instructor: Carla Shalaby
This course was taken during my student teaching-internship year at Michigan State University. It was my first experience with graduate-level work. TE 802 allowed me to design lesson plans, deliver them into the classroom I was student teaching in, and provided an opportunity to reflect on my teaching. I created unit plans, evaluate my own teaching practices, and applied new concepts that were learned from the course. After this course, I was able to experience first-hand, the process of reflection and lesson plan development.
Spring
2015
TE 803: Professional Roles & Teaching Practices II
Instructor: Joy Oslund
This course was taken during my student teaching-internship year. The course work gave opportunities to think critically about the responsibilities an educator has within the classroom, community and society. I learned about how educators can enhance student learning and achievement by gaining a deeper understanding in where they work. Through an independent study on a student, I was able to build a relationship with a student to gain a deeper understanding about their prior knowledge, background and culture.
TE 804: Reflection & Inquiry in Teaching Practices II
Instructor: Andrea Varricchione
This course was taken during my student teaching-internship year. The course work allowed me to gain a deeper understanding about researching and analyzing data. I conducted an inquiry-based researched project, which allowed me to create an experience and lesson for my students about economics. I was able to take what I learned about understanding real world contexts and apply them into my classroom that I was student teaching in.
Fall
2018
CEP 810: Teaching with Technology for Understanding
Instructor: Kim Powell
This course served as an introduction to the Masters of Educational Technology program at Michigan State University. It provided content that gave me knowledge and skills about enhancing student learning by using engaging and purposeful technology. While creating a digital portfolio of my work from this course, I also explored different learning theories and processes that impact educational technology. One important theory that I left the course with is called TPACK (Technological, Pedagogical, and Content Knowledge). It was developed by professors at Michigan State University. This course was also a part of obtaining my certificate in Educational Technology.
CEP 811: Adapting Innovative Technologies in Education
Instructor: Janine Campbell
This course was a part of obtaining my certificate in Educational Technology. This course was designed to introduce ways to develop creative, inquiry inspired maker-lessons for the classroom. I was able to experience and learn about the importance of Maker Education. As a part of my digital portfolio, I used and circuit called MakeyMakey and thrifted materials to design a Maker lesson, reflect on Maker Education, and discover the possibilities of personalized learning. This course continued my learning about educational technology but specifically on personalized learning, creativity and Maker Education.
CEP 812: Applying Educational Technology to Traditions of Practice
Instructor: Douglas Frankish
This course was the last of three courses to obtain my certificate in Educational Technology. This course focused on ways technology can be used to address and assess problems. I learned about three types of problems: ill-structured, well-structured and wicked. I had the opportunity to reflect on the information I consume on the web and analyze my “info-diet”. Throughout the course, I worked in a collaborative group to solve a wicked problem; using failure as a learning mode in education. We researched professional journals, used course readings, developed surveys and created possible solutions to help educators understand the wickedness of our problem. All course work was implemented on my digital portfolio.
Spring
2019
CEP 800: Psychology of Learning in School & Other Settings
Instructor(s): Diane Brandon and Brittany Dillman
This course, I took a step back as an educator and became a learner about learning. This course provided me with knowledge to understand learning and the ways that people learn. Through course readings and assignments, I had the opportunity to study different theories of learning, habits, and learning misconceptions. Throughout the course, I was constructing my personal theory of learning piece by piece after careful reflection of the course readings. I was able to transfer some of my learning directly into my pedagogy as I gained a deeper understanding on how people learn.
TE 846: Accommodating Differences in Literacy Learners
Instructor: Laura Tortorelli
This course focused on each component that makes up literacy. I was able to learning about the developmental process of literacy, effective literacy instruction, literacy assessments and learning practices to accommodate a variety of learners. This course was collaborative in nature, giving many opportunities to discuss literacy practices, activities, assessments and instruction. I conducted a Literacy Case Study on phonemic awareness, which you can view in my showcase, where I observed, assessed and taught intervention lessons to one of my students. I was able to applied what I learned from the course directly into my literacy instruction.
Summer
2019
CEP 807: Capstone in Educational Technology
Instructor(s): Matthew Koehler and Aric Gaunt
This course focused on creating an online portfolio that showcases the work that I completed throughout my master’s program at Michigan State University. It provided opportunities to revisit past personal and professional, create future goals, and synthesize my experience in the Masters of Educational Technology Program. I was able to develop my portfolio each week through specific course requirements, careful reflection and constructive feedback from my peers. My personal online portfolio allows any audience to examine my experiences with my graduate level work and learn about me as an educator, technology enthusiast and lifelong learner.
CEP 822: Approaches to Educational Research
Instructor: David Wong
This course focused on understanding and immersing yourself in educational research. It provided opportunities to interpret quantitative and qualitative data, conduct a survey to understand undergraduate students "grit", and develop a literature review on a topic of interest. I chose reading motivation and how it effects reading achievement. I created an annotated transcript of 10 educational research articles pertaining to my topic while critiquing the quality of the research. At the end of the course I developed a literature review of reading motivation and it's effect on reaching achievement and behavior.