What is next for me is to see where I can apply what I have learned in this program. I know that I will continue to do informal action research in my daily practice no matter where I teach in the future. I want to continue to give my student survey to my students every year to see where they are in terms of their technology use and their ability to use 21st century skills. I will continue to find new ways to incorporate technology into the classroom and many different types of media for my students to learn how to use.
Throughout the entire Innovative learning program at Touro University I have learned a lot from my research and development of my capstone project. I have learned about many different tech tools that I can use in the classroom and displayed throughout my capstone website. Some of the main tech tools I now use because of this program are edpuzzle, adobe spark, screencast, quizzizz, kami, google classroom, google slides and docs, pear deck, and the list goes on. I know that because of this program I will continue to explore technology tools to use in the classroom with my students. I have also learned about 21st century skills and what a 21st century classroom should look like. The work that I have done with 21st century skills and technology in the classroom will be continued with me in the rest of my teaching career. I will continue to advocate for using technology in the classroom regularly and for teachers to incorporate 21st century skills into their pedagogy. I will continue to share the work I have done with colleagues and other staff within my school. I will continue to make changes in my classroom as technology advances and continue to offer support to colleagues with that as well. Eventually I hope to be able to teach other educators the value of technology and help newer teachers learn how to incorporate technology into their classroom early on in their career.
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Thank you to Napa Learns for the opportunity. I know I have learned so much throughout this Master's program. I know that I have learned a lot about incorporating technology into my classroom, which helped tremendously during distance learning. I have learned about TPACK and how valuable it is. I have learned about different instructional design methods which have changed the way I have thought about designing my instruction. I have learned a lot through making my website, especially about the power of visuals over words. I have learned about how to create videos on screencast, adobe spark and now wevideo. I feel like each of those websites are different but all very great tools. Finally I know that I will take everything I have learned with my wherever my teaching career takes me. Thank you Touro University and Napa Learns.