Gracie Stansberry

Final Reflection

Gary Lewallen

12/05/2019

Final Reflection

This semester I was very excited about learning about new and interesting

technology but I feel as though this was not what I expected. In class we talked more

about articles that did not pertain to any kind of technology. I did not learn that much this

semester besides how to use a podcast. Which I mean this will be useful in college so if

I need to record one but I don't see myself using this in my classrooms. I get that this

course was to help open my eyes into different technology that I would possibly use in

my classrooms but we only used three different kinds of technology. With a small

amount it's hard to use these in a highschool level and I felt that these could be more

helpful in elementary school, especially since I am teaching highschool math.

I saw that through the semester for every project I saw when something was new

to me I feel like I approach it the same way. I look at what my goal is for the project then

I research any information that I may not know so I am very educated. Then when I feel

like I have a good understanding I will jump into using the technology that is required.

Most of the time the technology was fairly easy and if I had any questions the internet

would help solve my issues. I felt like these processes I grew with myself because I was
able to teach myself everything. I did not think I was one to be independent but this

class showed how I can solve any problems by myself.

Some challenges I had will this course was how I did not learn anything besides

what I taught myself. In the beginning if I had any questions I would email my professor

but would get no response back. This was very frustrating since Gary was not there for

any of his students if we ever needed anything. Another thing that was a challenge was

how the information that was given to us on the computer I already knew so I felt as the

class was just full of busy work and I do not like that. The projects we had to do were

easy and had no problems. It was the course and how it was taught was more

challenging.

The only thing that I will take away from this course will be how to use a podcast

but I did not learn this in class. Everything I learned was by myself and with the

internet's help. I think that my technology knowledge that I learned in this class will not

help me at all with anything that has to do with teaching. I am sorry that I might sound

harsh but for future students I think this course needs to be fixed.

If I had to approach these assignments again I would not procrastinate. I feel like

I waited so long because as a class we were putting in effort but we were not seeing it

from our professor. It's hard to please someone when they don't care about anything

with the class. Maybe if I had a teacher that was very engaged with the course I would

have put in more effort for the class. It would be done better without any complaints.

When we did our first podcast reflection it was nice to get feedback, it helped me show

how we as a group could have improved our podcast. I just wished that we did this
before we turned in the podcast so we could have had time to fix what was wrong with

it. Well, since this was our first podcast ever there were many ways to make it better.

If I had to change something I would get rid of all the plans. Those were just busy

work and felt that it almost confused the assignment even more. I think that busy work

does not help make the class fun nor engaging. In my TELL 111 class we learned how

to teach and what makes a good teacher and when I walk into EDT 180 its the complete

opposite. So, like when someone wants to be a great teacher then they give you a

professor that does not exceed the expectation is very disappointing.

One of my favorite assignments was the construction module. I ​learned a lot 

about how powerpoint works because we needed to add music and some movement. I 

think that having this project being so open to what we could do on it was my favorite. It 

made the application more fun to do. It was nice to have it open.  

This class has the potential to be a great learning experience but I do think that 

things do need to change.