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About Marisabel Olguin
Thank you for visiting my website. You'll see here that my mission is to incorporate technology in the classroom in a meaningful way. My driving question is: How will students engage with an online platform for independent reading?
I recently have been working on getting my master's in innovative learning but my journey has been a long time coming. Sixteen years ago I discovered my love for teaching, nurturing and helping others. As a happily married mother with a few college credits to my name, in 2001 I was given the opportunity to work for the Napa Valley Unified School District in a dual immersion school. I jumped at the opportunity and climbed my way to the top. After eight years as a Instructional Assistant I was given the opportunity to teach Pre Kindergarten. While teaching Pre Kinder I began my quest towards earning my teaching credential. Now a mother of three I decided to take it one step at a time. I am currently in my second year of teaching fourth grade and loving every minute of it. I am still at the same dual immersion school and I look forward to using all I have learned in this Master's of Innovative Learning Program to incorporating technology in the classroom in a meaningful way to enhance both my and my students 21st century educational experience.
I recently have been working on getting my master's in innovative learning but my journey has been a long time coming. Sixteen years ago I discovered my love for teaching, nurturing and helping others. As a happily married mother with a few college credits to my name, in 2001 I was given the opportunity to work for the Napa Valley Unified School District in a dual immersion school. I jumped at the opportunity and climbed my way to the top. After eight years as a Instructional Assistant I was given the opportunity to teach Pre Kindergarten. While teaching Pre Kinder I began my quest towards earning my teaching credential. Now a mother of three I decided to take it one step at a time. I am currently in my second year of teaching fourth grade and loving every minute of it. I am still at the same dual immersion school and I look forward to using all I have learned in this Master's of Innovative Learning Program to incorporating technology in the classroom in a meaningful way to enhance both my and my students 21st century educational experience.
Reflections on My Journey
Although my journey is in innovative learning with technology, sometimes our students just need a new creative method to help them cross the bridge. Dervin and Baggio both provide insight on the importance of a sense-making moment and helping our students cross the bridge with a strategy that works for them. Baggio emphasizing the use of visuals to impact learning. Baggio quotes Conner(2008), "Visuals improve the learning process and quicken your ability to make connections".
My student was having difficulty visualizing how to separate the egg carton in different sections to make equivalent fractions and though I had used the carton during my instruction he needed to physically lay out the yarn himself on the carton in order to visualize the different sections and how he could compare different fractions.
Both my student and I felt excited by the experience. He was surprised that I offered him the tool to use while he took his quiz. I don't think that I would have offered him the tool had I not recently read both Dervin and Baggio. Thanks to the journey I have been on I am beginning to notice those moments when my students need something extra to get them one step closer to making sense of their experiences in the classroom.
My student was having difficulty visualizing how to separate the egg carton in different sections to make equivalent fractions and though I had used the carton during my instruction he needed to physically lay out the yarn himself on the carton in order to visualize the different sections and how he could compare different fractions.
Both my student and I felt excited by the experience. He was surprised that I offered him the tool to use while he took his quiz. I don't think that I would have offered him the tool had I not recently read both Dervin and Baggio. Thanks to the journey I have been on I am beginning to notice those moments when my students need something extra to get them one step closer to making sense of their experiences in the classroom.
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Lasting Learning from the Innovative Learning program
TPACK is an overlap of Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge. According to Gikipedia that was recently updated in 2018, Similarly Transliteracy is an overlapping of sorts, it combines a range of capabilities required to move across a range of contexts, media, technologies and genres. Conceptually, transliteracy is situated across five capabilities: information literacy(effectively use information to solve a problem), information and communication technologies (ICT covers any product that will store, retrieve, manipulate, transmit or receive information electronically in a digital form), communication and collaboration, creativity and critical thinking, underpinned by literacy and numeracy. Furthermore, transliteracy was first developed in 2005 by the Transliteracies Research Project, directed by professor Alan Lie as a part of research into online reading that coincidentally is what my capstone is directly related to. I have added a link to a video were he explains about RoSE (Research-oriented Social Environment, 2012) https://youtu.be/oUUxxRCXqwQ .
In the video Lie explains his project as a way to use social media as a tool for research. He describes the Users as wondering through information alone and how his project RoSE can help the Users navigate through information with a more social interactive experience. In our capstone we are hoping to do the same thing for other educators. We want to use our research and work to help other educators use technology in the classroom successfully. I am already seeing more student engagement with the incorporation of technology in my classroom, by having transliteracy in mind when putting together lesson plans we are increasing the modalities by which our students can achieve success. I feel that this last semester I was able to incorporate some transliteracy in my classroom by using Google classroom. My students used an online database that had a multitude of resources available for them to write a report about one of the California Missions. In addition they had to demonstrate knowledge by producing a final product that allowed for a variety of communication modalities. I look forward finding new ways to incorporate transliteracy into my lessons.
Below is my Research Proposal
In the video Lie explains his project as a way to use social media as a tool for research. He describes the Users as wondering through information alone and how his project RoSE can help the Users navigate through information with a more social interactive experience. In our capstone we are hoping to do the same thing for other educators. We want to use our research and work to help other educators use technology in the classroom successfully. I am already seeing more student engagement with the incorporation of technology in my classroom, by having transliteracy in mind when putting together lesson plans we are increasing the modalities by which our students can achieve success. I feel that this last semester I was able to incorporate some transliteracy in my classroom by using Google classroom. My students used an online database that had a multitude of resources available for them to write a report about one of the California Missions. In addition they had to demonstrate knowledge by producing a final product that allowed for a variety of communication modalities. I look forward finding new ways to incorporate transliteracy into my lessons.
Below is my Research Proposal
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TPACK Reflection
Mishra & Koehler explain TPACK as an overlap of Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge. they further explain, technology changes: how we teach (Pedagogy), what we teach (Content), and the contexts within which teaching/ learning happens. This advances my knowledge on what we as teachers need to know when preparing our students for the 21st century. The learning pit reminds me of Dervin's sense-making metaphor except in the pit students are reassured that being in the pit makes for deeper learning and working through the problem with others makes for a successful learning experience. Therefore, if you avoid the pit you are not challenging yourself and are not making intellectual growth. Dervin's sense-making triangle emphasis has been placed on understanding how the individual saw self as stopped, what questions or confusions they defined, what strategies they preferred for arriving at answers, what success they had in arriving at answers, how they were helped by answers, and what barriers they saw standing in the way to arriving at answers. Technology in both of these scenarios if used in the way TPACK presents it will help the learner climb out of the pit or could help the learner bridge the gap. Students have the world at their fingertips when they have technology available to them throughout their day and are supported by teachers who facilitate learning through pedagogy.
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