Alexis Flanders
A look into my MAET experience
Category: CEP 812
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This evaluation grew out of curiosity sparked in another course. While reading research about how students picture mathematicians and scientists, I wondered how my own third graders might respond to similar prompts. Instead of simply wondering, I tried it. I designed a small classroom activity where students listened to completely gender-neutral descriptions of four professions:…
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This project is the culmination of my work this semester and, honestly, it began with frustration. As Berger (2014) reminds us, better questions lead to better thinking. Instead of continuing to complain about a perceived problem in education, I decided to ask a more precise question. To explore that question, I surveyed teachers and examined…
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When I started designing my survey for my Wicked Problem Project (WPP), I thought I had my question nailed down. I quickly realized I didn’t. Back to the drawing board. After refining, I landed on this:Why is elementary curriculum typically structured in isolated, subject-specific programs instead of integrated frameworks that support cross-curricular learning? Wicked, I…
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For this week’s assignment, I created a sketchnote video to document and reflect on my Quickfire questioning process. While I have lightly edited videos before, this was my first time producing a short, highly structured video that required visual organization and concise narration. I used iMovie to edit my recording, which allowed me to trim…
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In a world where we seem to have all the answers at our fingertips, are we unintentionally failing to understand? Technology has brought about numerous opportunities and pathways to obtain answers to our questions. However, should simply getting an answer be the end goal or should there be an end goal at all? Through the…
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Dyslexia impacts much more than reading time for many students. Students with dyslexia can understand grade-level ideas but struggle to access written materials because decoding is so demanding and stressful. This becomes an ill-structured classroom problem because there is no single fix. Students encounter text in every subject in various ways, and success depends on…
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