On this page, you will find a list of the courses I completed as part of the Master of Arts in Educational Technology (MAET) program at Michigan State University, as well as the semester I took each course, the instructor(s) of the course, and a brief description of what I learned and did throughout each course. These courses are listed in the order in which I completed them.
TE = Teacher Education
CEP = Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education
CEP = Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education
TE 802: Reflection and Inquiry in Teaching Practice I
Fall 2015
Instructor: Dawnmarie Ezzo
Instructor: Dawnmarie Ezzo
The focus of this course is literacy planning, instruction, and assessment. In order to better understand a specific learning need, I performed a child study through data collection, analysis, and a presentation to my peers. I explored the curriculum, instruction, and assessment materials available at my school prior to teaching so that I knew what resources I had to help me develop instruction and assessments. During this course, I designed, taught, and assessed a literacy unit in my third grade internship classroom.
TE 803: Professional Roles and Teaching Practice II
Spring 2016
Instructor: Hannah Grisham
Instructor: Hannah Grisham
TE 803 focused on social studies teaching and learning as well as how to integrate social studies into other content areas. In the course, I designed, implemented, and assessed a social studies unit in my elementary internship classroom. This course addressed teaching for all students, so I examined special needs and the types of accommodations that can be used in the classroom to help students learn. Through this course, I also learned about and enacted a lesson study, teaching a lesson in my own classroom, reflecting on it and making changes, observing the revised lesson in another classroom, and reflecting on the lesson once again.
TE 804: Reflection and Inquiry in Teaching Practice II
Spring 2016
Instructor: Dawnmarie Ezzo
Instructor: Dawnmarie Ezzo
This course focused on planning, teaching, and assessing science in an elementary classroom. Throughout this course, I designed and taught a science unit in my internship classroom. After the conclusion of the unit, I analyzed student work from the unit to determine the effectiveness of my teaching and to reflect on my teaching. In this course, I also completed an action research project in which I identified a problem and a question, collected and analyzed data, and presented what I learned to my peers and instructor.
CEP 810: Teaching for Understanding with Technology
Summer 2018
Instructors: Debbie McHorney and Mary Wever
Instructors: Debbie McHorney and Mary Wever
This course was an introduction to several important topics in the MAET program. At the beginning of the course, I learned about the difference between learning and understanding and thought through how I can see the difference between the two in my own classroom. I learned about networked learning, completed a networked learning project of my own, and considered the pros and cons of my students learning math in this way. I also learned about Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), a framework of the knowledge required for teachers to integrate technology; using this framework, I will be able to think through whether there is a technological tool I can use to best teach content. I also learned about Professional Learning Networks (PLN), mapped out my PLN, and began to expand my PLN throughout this course. I will rely on my PLN after completing my master's degree to continue my own learning.
CEP 811: Adapting Innovative Technologies to Education
Summer 2018
Instructors: Rachel Matz and Melissa White
Instructors: Rachel Matz and Melissa White
CEP 811 continued to build on the ideas of learning and technology integration that were introduced in CEP 810. This course also introduced the concepts of repurposing objects and technologies, the maker culture, and experience design. I designed an infographic that communicates the benefits of including maker education in the mathematics classroom. I created a lesson plan that engages students in collaborative learning by using a Makey Makey, which is a circuit board that connects to various objects. I also created a model of my ideal classroom that incorporates the ideas I learned about experience design.
CEP 812: Applying Educational Technology to Issues of Practice
Summer 2018
Instructor: Andrew Steinmann
Instructor: Andrew Steinmann
CEP 812 focused on ways to use technologies to address well-structured, ill-structured, and wicked problems in education. In this course, I read A More Beautiful Question by Warren Berger, which taught me the importance of asking questions and thinking about them from multiple perspectives before beginning to construct a solution to a problem. I also examined my information diet and how to diversify the information I consume online. With the collaboration of two of my peers, I completed a project about allowing failure to be as powerful a learning mode as success (a wicked problem). To complete this project, we identified a few central questions, researched about the questions from multiple perspectives, and decided upon a "best" solution to the problem.
CEP 813: Electronic Assessment for Teaching and Learning
Fall 2018
Instructors: Colin Gallagher and Bret Staudt Willet
Instructors: Colin Gallagher and Bret Staudt Willet
In this course, I learned about assessment design and the affordances and constraints of using technologies in assessment. I learned about the necessity of providing students with feedback. I critically reviewed the typical pencil and paper math quiz and Google Classroom, a course management system (CMS). From what I learned throughout the course, I created an assessment design checklist that I can use to evaluate the assessments I plan to use in my own classroom. I also designed several assessments: an assessment in a CMS; an online game-based assessment; and my own formative assessment plan that very purposefully integrates technology, accompanied by the instruction before and after the assessment.
CEP 800: Psychology of Learning in School and Other Settings
Spring 2019
Instructors: Dr. Diana Brandon and Dr. Brittany Dillman
Instructors: Dr. Diana Brandon and Dr. Brittany Dillman
This course focused on the different ways people can learn both in and out of school. In this course, I learned about learning; I wrote about what I thought learning is at the beginning of the semester and tracked my changes throughout the course. I learned about the power of habits, how they are created, how to change them, and how they influence what we do. I also read about several learning theories and how they apply to content and behavior learning within the classroom. Throughout the course, I discussed ideas with classmates through many different technologies, which allowed me the opportunity to explore these technologies and how they might be beneficial to learning certain content. In culmination of the course, I created a lesson plan to use in my classroom that demonstrates what I learned about learning.
CEP 822: Approaches to Educational Research
Summer 2019
Instructor: Dr. David Wong
Instructor: Dr. David Wong
CEP 822 took me well out of my comfort zone and deep into the world of educational research. I learned how to read research and how to determine the quality of research. During the course, I chose to learn more about procedural and conceptual knowledge in mathematics. I chose quality research articles, annotated them, and wrote a research review about what I had learned. This course also gave me the opportunity to conduct and analyze my own research through giving a survey and using Microsoft Excel to calculate interesting statistics with the data.
CEP 807: Capstone in Educational Technology
Summer 2019
Instructors: Dr. Matthew Koehler and Aric Gaunt
Instructors: Dr. Matthew Koehler and Aric Gaunt
This was the final course in the MAET program. During the course, I designed and refined an online portfolio to display what I learned and created throughout the master's program. This gave me the opportunity to reflect on my learning throughout the program and the goals I have for the future. Throughout the course, I communicated my rationale for the design and content of my portfolio pages, and my peers and instructors gave me feedback to help me think through other design and content options so that I could develop a great portfolio.