JoyfulDuplisea’s Ed Tech Journey

The ADL program, thus far, has been worthy of my productive struggle. I have had opportunities to think and reflect, with choice, ownership, voice, and authenticity to start developing a plan of impact in my organization. Many of the skills are just great life skills that enhance perspective, build character, and help me understand human psychology. I am very happy I chose Lamar to continue my learning, through the COVA learning approach. The COVA learning approach is definitely at the heart of deep, personalized, and authentic learning. With blended learning as my innovation plan, choice, ownership, and voice are built right in, but I will need to be intentional about making sure the authentic learning piece is embedded in my plan as well. This is something I know is important to any significant learning experience.

As I continue my learning and planning, I am getting more comfortable sharing my work publicly, utilizing my ePortfolio to document and organize, and reflect on feedforward to evolve. I am still not a natural blogger, but I do believe that my ePortfolio may take the place of my current twitter and will help me continue utilizing my ePortfolio beyond my program of study at Lamar to document my journey with educational technology.  

Thus far, the most important lesson I have learned in this program is that I am set up for success. The professors have been very intentional in setting up a safe space to try, fail forward and grow at my own pace. How far I take the learning is up to me, and self reflection is key to continued progress. I am already so proud of the learning, reflecting, and developing I have accomplished and look forward to a lifelong journey of growth.