Final Reflection

I really enjoyed the content of this course on learning theory and technology. While I found that there weren't many changes to my personal theory of learning, reflecting on the content of this course has given me a deeper insight to how I learn and how I teach.

I have already incorporated digital concept organizers in my class and would really like to try to use VoiceThread. I think that VoiceThread has a lot of potential for collaborative work and I would like to see how this could work in my classroom. Concept organizers are so important for how students construct their learning and I use these quite often.

I would like to find ways to incorporate technology better into the "teacher-directed" portions of my class in ways that would be engaging and interactive for students. I do many "student-directed" activities in my classroom and I would like to better integrate technology when I'm in front of the class as well.

I would also like to work at how I assess student learning when they are working collaboratively or individually with technology. Observations are very important to the learning process so that we can adjust our teaching to better meet the needs of our students.