Spark Page:
Task: Using the app Adobe Spark Page, present a response to the questions, “What is literacy in the digital age?” and “What forms are most relevant to a high school English content area?”.
Goals:
Performance Criterion 4.1: Candidates accurately communicate central concepts of the discipline
Performance Criterion 5.2: Candidates integrate cross-disciplinary skills (such as critical thinking, creativity, and collaborative problem solving) to help learners demonstrate their learning in unique ways.
Explain Everything:
Task: Using the app Explain Everything, create a visual and audio representation of the curriculum orientation “Progressivism”.
Goals:
Performance Criterion 4.1: Candidates accurately communicate central concepts of the discipline
Performance Criterion 5.2: Candidates integrate cross-disciplinary skills (such as critical thinking, creativity, and collaborative problem solving) to help learners demonstrate their learning in unique ways.
In both projects, I was able to explore what these key concept meant for ME and MY future classroom. In the Literacy Spark Page, I had the opportunity to explore what exactly I thought literacy was, and what that would look like in my future classroom. In the Orientation Explain Everything, I was able to learn more about the curriculum orientation that I associated with, as well as work out what implementing my orientation into my future curriculum will look like.
I was also able to, in both presentations, communicate the ideas that I had learned about both literacy and Progressivism, and did this in a cross-disciplinary medium that allowed me to demonstrate my learning in a unique way. In doing this, I was able to show how I can be creative and integrative as a future educator.
In my Spark Page presentation, I was able to communicate what I have learned thus far about literacy through a technology that I had never used before. Similarly with my Explain Everything presentation, I communicated what I have learned about Progressivism through an additional app that I have had no other experience with. Technology is, I would say, currently my weakest point in becoming an educator. Fortunately, what I lack in technological ability, I have surplus of in creativity and hopefully I can continue to use my creativity to help guide me learning how to make the best use of new technologies available.
