Welcome to CEP 812. This page documents my work for Applying Educational Technology to Issues of Practice, where I examine real challenges in education and explore how technology can be used to address them thoughtfully and ethically. It includes inquiry projects, design work, reflections, and analyses of how digital tools can improve teaching, learning, and equity in classroom settings.
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Surveying the System: Questioning Curriculum Design
Read more: Surveying the System: Questioning Curriculum DesignWhen 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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Making My Thinking Visible
Read more: Making My Thinking VisibleFor 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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When Questions Matter More Than Answers
Read more: When Questions Matter More Than AnswersIn 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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Speechify as a Cross-Curricular Support for Students with Dyslexia
Read more: Speechify as a Cross-Curricular Support for Students with DyslexiaDyslexia 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…
Alexis Flanders 