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Teaching, learning, and/or assessment processes

 3.Teaching, learning, and/or assessment processes You should demonstrate your understanding of and engagement with teaching, learning, and assessment processes. In particular, you should consider the needs of your learners and the value the technology brings to particular pedagogies. a) An understanding of teaching, learning, and/or assessment processes You should discuss ways that technology for learning can support or work with particular pedagogical approaches. You should include your teaching experience, reflective statements that analyze experience in terms of learning theory, pedagogical approaches, sociological theories, or a comparable, recognized perspective. There should be some consideration of how technology is changing approaches to teaching and learning and/or the roles of learners, teachers, and support staff. b) An understanding of your target learners You should discuss the learners' needs and in the context of language learning, and how you have developed approac...
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About Me

 My name is Laura Winter and my focus as a learning technologist is extending the teacher/student interaction and increasing student learning potential. I worked for ten years as a public school teacher and during my  tenure access to learning technology was very limited.  As a teacher time was my number one challenge. There was never enough time to prepare all resources needed for class itself, let alone the time needed for each student. I worked as an executive bilingual secretary for 15 years prior to returning to school for a Masters in Education.  I taught middle school Spanish for my first year and then the next eight years taught at a Montessori public school teaching first, second, and third grade in a self- contained classroom.  I spent my final year teaching kindergarten at a school with the lowest SES in the district.  While teaching is my passion, after ten years I was burnt out. I feel fortunate that I could return to administrative work in a h...
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Technology in the Classroom (and beyond)

  a) An understanding of the constraints and benefits of different technologies For the majority of my career, my relationship to technology has been tied to my work.  As Daniel Scott states in his blog entry, Confessions of a Learning Technologist, “Everyone uses technology, maybe without knowing.  It’s tapping into that and making it into learning opportunities.”  When using technology for technology’s sake we are often simply using technology in the place of an analog method.  A prime example is using word processing in place of writing out a document by hand.  Whereas when we use implement technology with the intent of enhancing our work, teaching, and/or learning then we are able to see what a dramatic difference it can truly make. While I have used different technologies as a bilingual executive secretary and as a primary teacher, I never experienced a real learning curve until I discovered the iPad.  Prior to the iPad the different word processi...
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