Overview of Learning

METatheory: New Materialism Meets the History of Educational Media explored the paradigmatic theories of education from past to present and focused on new materialism where we re-imagined best practices in educational pedagogy. This course taught me to take decades old educational theories and models and re-imagine them to apply to present day educational teaching strategies.

Reflection

For me, this was a challenging course in the MET program. I personally gained a wealth of knowledge in this class while completing the weekly tasks and readings. The weekly tasks assigned in this course had me thinking outside of the educational teaching box on a regular basis and challenged my thinking on traditional educational theories.

Ed Tech Development: Arts Learning Circle

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Goal and Framework Alignment

This artifact aligns with goal two and framework theme explore. Although challenging, this artifact used traditional asynchronous frameworks for developing content on a traditional LMS and re-framed them to present an LMS that could be maintained by the organization and used to create a community of learning by connecting artists and giving them a way to provide feedback, share resources, and host a professional development workshop series. This artifact demonstrates how using a simple web authoring tool can allow for flexibility for future development and instructional design as this arts program grows.

Next Steps

As Latour says, even things can have theory. When designing a learning tool, it’s imperative to always remember every design has underlying biases, theoretical perspectives, assumptions, and hypotheses. Open-ended activities, such as this, allow one to explore making, designing, and reflecting on digital learning tools.