Contributions to Learning Community (5302)

Concepts of Educational Technology – Tech Grade 96/100

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I marvel at the fact that I get to glean and grow within this Masters program. I’ve extracted and learned a lot through my short tenure in taking these courses. The context shift that I received has propelled me to newer levels mentally. I often ponder on how I fought through the rigors of 5302 (Concepts of Educational Technology) and 5304 (Leading Organisational Change). There were a multitude of challenges that I surmounted. I can honestly say adopting the growth mindset helped me a lot. Exhibiting the growth mindset means inviting objective and wise counsel. Distinguishing between the growth mindset and the false growth mindset was a game changer. I really enjoy how everything is in tangent. This has subjected me to seeing terms, phrases, and change principles multiple times. As a result, I’ve been able to retain a lot of info and construct newer ideologies that I could lead with as I strive to become the cornerstone of organizational change within my field of education.

4 Steps to Growth Mindset:

1: Learn to hear fixed mindset

2. Recognise that you have a choice

3. Talk back to it with a growth mindset voice

4. Take the growth mindset action

Furthermore, when it comes to my “Concepts of Educational Technology course”, I truly believe that It help guide me into a piloting a very effective plan, one that will impact the students that I have the pleasure of encountering. After reading projects like Mindset, transcribed by Carol Dweck and dissecting Ted Talks by other well-known professionals my mental acuity increased tremendously. Thanks to the influx of information I now understand that as an educator and facilitator my job is to model the power of “yet,” where I shift my focus from celebrating individuals’ skillset, to the effort my students are putting into their craft.

When we take the time to explore failures and shortcomings our brain grows, actual neural connections are formed. In other words, the brain is malleable and I’m living proof of that throughout these past couple of courses. A very intricate part of the course was our discussion posts, we used that forum as an opportunity to convey what we’ve extracted from the course modules. We often provided feedback/feedforward to help and bring clarity to another.

I am forever thankful for my foxhole friends, who are significant personnel in my learning community. Lina, Jermecia, Ana, and Nitra kept me on the straight and narrow during this last stretch. They made themselves extremely accessible to me. If you ask them, they would endorse the fact that I mentioned how they came in the clutch quite profusely. We collaborated effectively when it came to completing assignments like the growth mindset plan and the learning manifesto. All in all I believe this was a transformational experience for all of us and I couldn’t be more appreciative of great colleagues and patient professors.

When I came to how I was an individual asset to my learning community, it was quite clear that the girls valued my feedback when it comes to writing. I would often be asked to proofread content. My feedback is always accepted and I don’t take that lightly. My professors actually love the idea of group work. It’s just something about pooling our minds, resources, and ideas to construct valuable systems. I believe we’re all interconnected because of our “why” we’re all inclined to help each other because the common goal is to make the world a better place one student at a time. Whether it’s blended learning or e-portfolio based learning we all bounce ideas off of one another and it has been a proven method.

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