Creating Significant Learning Environments (CSLE) Compilation
Below is a compilation of the assignments completed during the Creating Significant Learning Environments (CSLE) course. While completing these assignments, I reflected on the impact these lessons would have in improving the climate and culture on my campus by creating Student Technology Teams to assist teachers and new students with technology as a part of my Innovation Plan.
CSLE Response to New Culture of Learning
This blog post discusses the shift from traditional learning environments to significant learning experiences in the 21st century, where technology is essential. It highlights the importance of creating student technology teams that allows students to engage in their passion for technology and operate within a bounded environment that thrives on hands-on experiential learning.
Growth Mindset Plan and Redux
In this post, I discuss the concept of a growth mindset, which is the belief that one's abilities can be developed through hard work and dedication (Dweck, 2008). In contrast, low socioeconomic status (SES) students often use a fixed mindset to buffer the adverse effects of poverty on achievement (Brandišauskienė, A., 2021). A fixed mindset is the belief that one's talents and intelligence are predetermined and cannot be improved. In this post, I have provided a growth mindset plan outline, which includes lessons on recognizing mistakes, the differences between a growth and fixed mindset, and identifying the growth and fixed voice. The post emphasizes the importance of promoting a growth mindset through effective praise, which should focus on effort, strategies, focus, perseverance, and improvement.
In the Growth Plan Redux, I express concern regarding how the Growth Mindset has been portrayed as a panacea for the ills of the education system and that relying on the Growth Mindset alone does not take into account the whole child and issues, such as childhood trauma, excessive curriculum, student burnout, and the influence that social media on self-esteem (Kline, 2020). However, the Growth Mindset has a place in creating significant learning environments and instilling hope, and cultivating the learner’s and innovator’s mindsets is also important (Learners Mindset, 2021), . Participating in student technology teams is an opportunity to cultivate these mindsets.
Learning Environment/Situational Factors Outline + 3 Column Table
This blog post discusses how many educators lack training in instructional design, limiting their ability to design courses that include active learning, significant learning environments, and educative assessment. I used Fink's Self-Directed Guide to Designing Courses for Significant Learning (Fink, n.d.) to rethink my innovation plan for creating a Student Technology Teams to integrate technology in the classroom, increase student choice and authenticity in assessments, and encourage diversity in computer science education.
Understanding by Design for Student Technology Teams
This Understanding by Design plan outlines learning goals, essential questions, and assessments for a starting student technology team (McTighe, n.d.). The plan is divided into stages: Stage 1: Desired Results, Stage 2: Evidence, and Stage 3: Learning Plan.
In Stage 1: Desired Results, the plan establishes goals and desired outcomes for the course, listing possible new Texas Technology TEKS for the 2024-2025 school year with essential understandings, questions, and acquisitions. The plan highlights that students will learn to use technology practically and critically to evaluate the best approach to working with new students, presenting detailed information, and contributing to school culture.
In Stage 2: Evidence, the plan outlines performance tasks and other evidence for assessing student learning, such as a Day in the Life project, teacher and student feedback and creating a website or a Canvas course.
In Stage 3: Learning Plan, the plan provides a summary of key learning events and instructions, starting with a discussion about empathy and discussing a time that someone's help made an impact in their lives. It then describes recording everything a student needs to know to succeed at McC and then creating instructional videos and a how-to website.
Learning Philosophy
This blog post discusses my learning background and how teaching and learning are interdependent; they should work together for successful outcomes. Philosophically, I identify with the constructivist learning theory, which acknowledges the learner's personal construction of meaning through experience, and the interaction of prior knowledge and new events influences that meaning (Arends, 1998). It is vital for teachers to create engaging and meaningful learning experiences and use technology to enhance the social learning process. I am passionate about moving schools into the 21st century by cultivating social and interpersonal interactions to encourage leadership opportunities through serving others.
References.
Arends, R. I. (1998). Resource handbook. Learning to teach (4th ed.). Boston, MA: McGraw- Hill.
Brandišauskienė, A., Bukšnytė-Marmienė, L., Česnavičienė, J., Daugirdienė, A., Kemerytė-Ivanauskienė, E., & Nedzinskaitė-Mačiūnienė, R. (2021). Connection between teacher support and student’s achievement: Could growth mindset be the moderator? https://doi-org.libproxy.lamar.edu/10.3390/su132413632
Dweck, C. S. (2008). Mindset. Ballantine Books.
Fink, L. D. (n.d.). A self-directed guide to designing courses for significant learning. Retrieved from https://luonline.blackboard.com/bbcswebdav/pid-3042999-dt-content-rid-30108308_1/courses/13583.201810/Self-Directed%20Guide%20to%20Course%20Design%20-%20Fink%20Summary.pdf
Kline, M., & Levine, P. A. (2020). Brain-Changing Strategies to Trauma-Proof Our Schools: A Heart-Centered Movement for Wiring Well-Being. North Atlantic Books.
Learners Mindset. (2021, February 6). Learner’s Mindset Explained [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAtzyabZkfI
McTighe, J. (n.d.). UbD template 2.0. McTighe & Associates. Retrieved February 21, 2023, from https://jaymctighe.com/downloads/UbD_Template_2.docx
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