Masters+Cohort-Summer+2010

From Michigan State University
 * [[image:spartan_s.jpg width="95" height="120"]] || = Masters in Education Technology =
 * [[image:spartan_s.jpg width="95" height="120"]] || = Masters in Education Technology =

MAET Summer 2010 Course-work ||

I nstructors: Dr. Punya Mishra, Sara Beauchamp-Hicks, Jessica Knott and Kyle Maddens . This summer cohort included the following courses. Click on the course number to get a course description CEP 815: Technology and Leadership CEP 822: Approaches to Educational Research ||
 * . || CEP 800: Psychology of Learning in School and Other Settings,

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= Cooperative Group Assignments = . . .  .  .  . =This Page is quite long so I put in some shortcuts for you. = . Click the numbered assignments to see the final projects
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 * 1) =Using Technology to Explore Gravity=
 * 2) ====Cognitive Learning ====
 * 3) ==Understanding Understanding ==
 * 4) Behaviorism
 * 5) Motivation
 * 6) Perspective
 * 7) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Technology in Education - Key Topics ||

= Individual Assignments = =<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #808080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Again click the numbered assignment to see the final project =
 * 1) ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Technology Based Grant Proposal for Transformative Learning ==
 * 2) Final Reflection

=Cooperative Group Assignments=

1. Using Technology to Explore Gravity
First Question If you hold a ball at shoulder height and drop it. Where will it land? Same ball, same height, now walk and drop it. Where will it land? Same ball, same height, now run and drop it. Where will it land? Second Question If you have a bowling ball and a beach ball and you roll them off the table, which one will hit the ground first? ==media type="youtube" key="3dTwbWFRFJA" height="385" width="480"

The strategies that you and your students use to learn.
In this assignment we used Vue ( a free concept mapping software) and Jing ( a free screen capture tool) to explain some ways Gardener believes we learn. Remember no one learns in just one of these categories, we all have 3 or 4 that we lean towards.


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||= ===This is the Concept map,(made with VUE) you know a picture of how we organized our thoughts.===

Please click the link under the picture to go to the file. ||
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concept map using Jing
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 * [[image:cooltoolsfor_school.png width="369" height="74" link="@cooltoolsforschools:home"]] || ===This is a rich site with all kinds of Web 2.0 tool that teachers and their students might like to use. It is where we found the VUE software.=== ||

3. Understanding Understanding
===WE were challenged to understand understanding by investigating misconceptions. Along the way we noticed how closely the depth of understanding aligned with Vygotsky's development of cognition. Interesting stuff.===



4. Behaviorism - Classic Conditioning and Cueing
 ===As we were studying Behaviorism we were asked to create a Video that would answer the following questions What is Classical conditioning? Can we / should we use it in our roles as teachers? What technologies can we repurpose toward that end? Secondly we considered Cueing and asked ourselves the same set of questions. Personally I think this was our group's most creative work. See if you like it too!===

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—Anatole France (1932, p. 238)
===We have been studying Motivation. We looked at the scientific research that answered some very interesting questions. Like, Is it grades that motivate our students. Yes, but it turns out only to a very small extent. Students are much more motivated to want to learn when they are intrinsically motivated( from with in). The we saw a captivating video by RSA that they produced based on Daniel Pink's book "Drive"=== ===Then we were given a sort of as an anti assignment. we were asked to create demotivational poster, with their stunningly beautiful photographs and a really cynical message underneath.(There is a whole website devoted to this kind of thing, despair.com)===

These posters were created in Google Presentation, with images from Flickr and used ideas from either the readings or from the Pink video.
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6. Perspective
 ===In an effort to get us to realize that teaching involved asking student to change their perspective, to use"new" lens to see the material being explored, to exchange places with their neighbor and try to see the concept from their angle. We took our digital cameras and went out on the beautiful MSU campus and found instances where things( not actual letters) looked like a letter( our groups was "A") The group picked the best 3 and our instructor put them together.===

Can you see the word?






7. Technology in Education-Key Topics
 ===Each group was asked to become the expert on an current issue being discussed in Education circles. The assignment was to create a series of web-pages that would be full of well researched information including a link to the original papers. Examples of how other teachers have used this material in their classrooms were also included.===



I have linked all the topics here because the quality of this information was extraordinary. I thought putting it in one spot would make it easy to reference in the future.

 * Developing information literacy & technology skills in students


 * Technology for professional development & leadership


 * Social and ethical uses of technology (particularly digital equity, intellectual property, and copyright) and healthy practices in the use of educational technology


 * Using technology to facilitate/develop creativity and critical thinking skills in students


 * Meeting the diverse needs of your students, assistive technologies, particularly through Universal Designs for Learning (UDL)

=<span style="background-color: #008000; color: #2cd82c; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Individual Assignments =

A Technology Based Grant Proposal for Transformative Learning




===I am excited about the potential for this pilot program. I have already met with our Principal and our Third grade teacher several times and we are well on our way to working out the logistics so that we can try this idea of having the Fifth graders be the Tech Advisers and Resource finders for the Third Grade.===