Blog Post #16 Midterm Reflection due October 23rd.

Learning Target: The student will self assess, share their mindset, academic growth. learning, and plan to earn __ grade by the end of the semester.

What grade have you earned thus far and why?

Midterm Reflection

Please post a blog reflection (or email me directly)  about your grade and investment thus far...  this is not a I've earned an A because I've posted everything.   Look at this list of questions below and post a well thought out reflection about your own growth/learning, and your hopes for the rest of the semester's growth.  

 I think your response will have three key areas  to discuss:

1)     Effort/Growth/Investment in my own learning

2)     Share your growing learning philosophy and where technology fits

3)     Goals, sites, exploration

Here are some questions or ideas to help you know what to share!

Growth/Effort/Investment

·         How are you growing in this course? 

·         How much time have you invested? Effort? Is your work and time worthy of the three credits you will earn?

·         How are you using class time? Are you listening and attentive, or surfing on your own thing, or caught up in nudging your friends and exchanging glances/comments? 

·         Are you thinking critically? Are you synthesizing? Analyzing? And pushing your learning?  (see the letter grade examples and share where your thinking fits.) 

·         And what’s your plan to do better? Or maintain your current level of investment?

·         My posts are grammatically correct and error free.  I’m representing myself well with my blog.

·         Then what grade you believe you are earning, or your plan to push ahead and improve to earn a ___. 

Learning with technology theory

·         What have you learned about teaching/learning philosophy, and how does technology make learning more effective? (We’ve introduced bloom's taxonomy, problem based learning, engaged learning, flipped/blended learning, and some quality tools.... )  as well as how technology can reach and teach at an academic level, but also impact your dispositions and add skills. 

·         Have you gotten to a novice level in your teaching theory foundation and can you see where and how technology might fit?

·         How has this course changed your views? Expanded your understanding?

·         What concepts, ideas or tools are you wondering about?  

·         How does technology and digital learning affect your spiritual life?

Goals, sites, and exploration

·         What have you discovered as we move on and show/tell/test tools, sites, and blogs?  

·         What are you internalizing?  What do you want to use?  

How are you stretching and even expanding how you think about your digital literacy by the exposure and resources in class and in your work outside of class?