The following blogposts represent some of the coursework I completed for my Master of Arts in Learning Experience Design. Read through to explore more of my learning journey!
Gathering Data in the Humanities: Using Lenses as Guides
I tend to favor assessments that fit within the mid-to-upper levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy: analysis, synthesis, and evaluation (University of Central Florida, n.d.). Most often this results in summative assessments that privilege creation of an…
Breaking the Cycle: Reassessing My Views of Assessment
My professors in the English education program at Central Michigan University taught me to use Wiggins and McTighe’s (2005) Understanding by Design and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) frameworks as starting points for designing assessment.…
My Experience with Standardized Assessment
As a child of the early 2000s, I went through school at a curious time for assessment. Following what Shepard (2000) described in Figure 1 as the 20th century dominant paradigm, many of my teachers…
Assessing The Great Gatsby through Creativity
One of my favorite units to teach from the 11th grade English curriculum at my school is the American Dream. My school’s textbook is full of waxing poeticism on the roots of the dream and…
Blue Books, Children’s Literature, and Regurgitation, Oh My!
Growing up, I heard horror stories of Blue Book assessments, from dramatizations in movies and television shows to my own parents recalling the number of trees they felt they contributed to killing based on how…
Learning: Context, Identity, and Knowledge
Theory of Learning Learning is central to humanity’s existence. Early philosophers such as Aristotle and Confucius concerned themselves with the importance of learning and the place it had in a society (Merriam & Bierema, 2013).…
Learning in Schools: A Case for Shifting Ideology
To talk about learning in schools, two points of clarification should be made. The first is relatively simple: which schools are being discussed? In this case, “school” will refer to a public-school servicing K-12 students…
Performing Arts in Out of School Programs: How Costuming Supports Learning
Out of school learning, it can be argued, comprises more of a person’s learning than the actual time they spend in school. This is because out of school learning (OOSL) is a blanket term for…
Creating Safe Classrooms: The Importance of Trauma-Informed Teaching
The brain learns by taking in information, organizing it, then storing the information for retrieval. In the brain, nerve cells called neurons have branches called dendrites (Halo Neuroscience, 2019). The connections between these dendrites are…
Ultimate Unit
Video Transcript: Welcome to my online unit! I chose to use Google classroom as it’s the learning management system my school uses. As this provided some familiarity for me, I wanted to challenge myself by…
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