I’ve been anticipating this Monday with a mix of trepidation and excitement. Coming back from maternity hiatus and diving into teaching/learning mode can be quite overwhelming.
I’m glad and relieved that the M.Ed courses resumed for me with Multimedia in Education as I hope this course will give me a good overview of how technology is applied in education. I believe this class will benefit me instantly while I'm working with kindergarten students, as well as if I were to teach at the college level.
As a teacher (as well as a person), I seek to improve my skill set throughout my entire life, and I know there is always room for advancement. I constantly strive to improve my ability to engage my students and stay relevant. With the world changing so rapidly, and kids becoming computer savvy at increasingly younger ages, it’s crucial that I, as an educator, don’t fall behind. Even my 2-year-old daughter knows how to navigate an iPhone. She was able to get to her favorite ‘baby piano school’ application, before she could pronounce ‘I’m hungry’! It only shows how ubiquitous the technology is. I’m hoping this course will help me catch up on what is ‘hot’ and I’ll learn how to apply multimedia in my teaching methods.
Being a kindergarten teacher doesn’t give me many 1:1 opportunities, but I believe I can implement in my lesson planning what I’ll learn during EDUC 932. It can help me to be more efficient in my prep work (no more ‘scrapbooking’, lesson plans can be managed and created online, together with fun and engaging activities) and more appealing to my students. Videos, graphics, animation, sounds - these are just few areas that can help me to engage my current little learners.
If at the end of this class I’ll be able to move from my traditional flashcards to something more creative and interactive, I’ll consider this a great success!
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