5320 CAPSTONE

Miss Malveaux's Magical Mind was created to share my knowledge and experience in the Applied Digital Learning program. My posts dissect the wonderful and diverse world of learning, taking deep dives into various relevant topics that will help demystify a number of educational themes and subjects.

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Although adults are primarily the “teachers,” in my five years in education I have discovered students have an array of things to teach us as well. Children and adults have so much to learn from each other, and the classroom presents this golden opportunity. My students have taught me empathy, kindness, and the art of forgiveness. My hopes are, that I have taught them humility, citizenship, and collaboration, in addition to the required curriculum. So, learning can happen anywhere, any time, and with anyone. Click below to read my full learning philosophy.

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Evolution of My Learning

This section is a collection of all my course work. It explores my innovation plan, the development of my plan, outlines, and professional learning plans. Each course was a piece to a bigger puzzle and built upon each other. They were all vital in the success of my implementation of blended learning. The knowledge I gained throughout this program will stay with me forver.

Disruptive Innovation in Education (5305)

Our Disruptive Innovation course provided the blueprint of our program. We set the foundation with our proposal, outline, and literature review to gain knowledge about our topic.

Concepts of Educational Technology (5302)

I was still able to learn, grow, and develop my website more elaborately in 5302. Initiating my growth mindset has helped me become more confident in my ADL work, my teaching at my job, and my personal life. 5302 has intensified my desire to help my students grow academically and emotionally while identifying the tools to help them become lifelong learners.

Leading Organizational Change (5304)

The text we needed for the course, The Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change (2013), was my favorite text I have read in any course. This book utilized real-life examples and explanations throughout, instead of strictly explaining a term.

Creating Significant Learning Environments (5313)

Course 5313's main focus is on creating a significant learning environment for students. This course gave me time to reflect on creating a space for my students that promotes growth, excellence, achievement, and community.

Developing Effective Professional Learning (5389)

Course 5389 challenged us to develop effective professional learning opportunities. Within 5389 we had to produce a call to action that provided the importance of professional learning and cultivating a plan that would make implementing professional development easier. Combining these two assignments into one project was essential to providing educators with the why and how I plan to execute their learning.

Resources for Digital Environments (5317)

This course was designed to explore digital resources that can be utilized in the classroom. This course allowed me to explore the digital resources I believe my students would benefit from most in my blended learning environment. I included an overview of what blended learning is, my experience with it, resources I have used in my classroom setting, and takeaways I have from using blended learning.

Assessing Digital Learning & Instruction (5315)

The 5315 course focused on assessing the impact of digital learning within our innovation project. This course was essential to the progression of my innovation plan because I was able to identify the information that will be presented to stakeholders once my pilot is completed. The research action and literature will support the claims I have made in the presentation of my implementation of blended learning.

Instructional Design in Online Learning (5318)

5318's course is all things instructional design for creating a curriculum course. 5318 allowed me to cultivate the base for my innovation plan I was able to plan how this course would be set up, how it would aligned with all the moving parts, and what I should adjust before the school year begins.

Synthesis of my learning in the ADL Program

COVA+CSLE
This reflection reviews my thoughts on COVA and its implementation. COVA stands for choice, ownership, voice, and authenticity, which we want students to emulate when it comes to their education. We also learned how to create a significant learning environment that will aid in our student's success.

Meet the Team

The ADL program has taught me an array of life lessons, but the biggest one came from the lovely ladies I have been collaborating with for the past year. When I initially began the program I did not have a core group and I struggled immensely with the first two courses. As I entered our second round I met Maria and Valerie. We have had other peers join us but with the exception of two classes this has always been my core group. I was afraid of collaboration when I began this program, but these women have been incredibly supportive academically and emotionally. We have built a strong community between the three of us and depended on one another to help revise and edit projects, share resources such as articles and links, and check on each others mental and physical health. I am forever grateful to these women and the other wonderful people I have met in this program that have supported me throughout the past year.

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Maria Lopez

3rd Grade RLA/Social Studies Educator

Alyssa Malveaux

8th Grade Career Readiness Educator

Valerie Regalado