My decision to enter the Lamar University online Master’s Program in Educational Technology came to me after a few career centered setbacks last fall. I wavered back and forth between a master’s in administration and a master’s in educational technology leadership. I eventually chose educational technology leadership because I felt it was a dynamic program that had the leadership component I was looking for, but also introduced the concept of classroom technology integration, a subject of which I know little. My decision revealed to me that I am still willing to embrace and engage in new and perhaps scary experiences. Now that I am in the program, I am extremely pleased with the expectations of my professors, my ability to communicate informally about assignments and the content with this first course.
I also understand now that I need to stay open to new classroom practices. I have only been teaching for 3 years and consider myself to be progressive. However, I learned that as progressive as I think I am, I still cling to some of the more traditional tenets of how to teach, how to manage a classroom and how students learn. The web tools that I learned about in this course, I narrowly viewed as technologies for personal and entertainment use only. I now understand the way these can be used to help revolutionize education for our 21st century learners.
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