CEP 811

I have advanced my knowledge on Educational technology during CEP 811. I have found that teachers really must evaluate how they are going to teach with technology, and not just use it to use it. Integrating technology into the classroom has to be useful and affective for learning to actually take place. Teaching with technology must be useful to all learning styles. This can make it difficult to create a lesson that is not only incorporates technology, but address student learning styles and abilities as well. I have learned throughout this course on how to evaluate technology based lessons, by creating my own, receiving feedback, and evaluating others. Also learning about UDL principals has really made me re think how I teach daily, with or without technology. I met a goal that I had during this course to create my own web based lesson. By creating my stAIR, I learned how difficult it can be to create a self contained lesson that reaches all students. This has made me create a new goal for myself, of creating a web based lesson, that reaches all student of various learning abilities, and applying the principals of UDL to it. My long term goal is to continue to work towards my Masters in Educational Technology. I am happy to say that I was recently accepted into the MAET program and will be continuing to learn on how to be an affective teacher, while using technology.