‘https://anchor.fm/cory-cummings Inquiry Question: How can educators use technology to enrich project-based learning, foster empathy, and cultivate a collaborative community that inspires others? Community. Empathy. Authentic, meaningful learning. As educators, these are things that we are constantly looking to model, foster, and strengthen in our classrooms. Right now in remote learning, these are also components…
Enhancing Assessments to Drive Instruction with Pear Deck
Inquiry Question: How can educators use technology to enhance assessment design, allowing for increased student engagement, a differentiated learner experience, and effective data-collection, to drive their instruction? Remote learning has provided me with an intentional opportunity to critically reflect on the assessments I use with my students and evaluate how they can best be used…
Building and Engaging in Meaningful Professional Learning Communities with Twitter
Inquiry Question: How can educators build and engage in a professional learning community that shares best practices, inspires others with innovative ideas, and supports members in participating in a variety of levels? Professional learning communities are a vital component to providing educators with professional growth, support, and inspiration. I am always curious to learn from…
Cultivating Collaboration and Authentic Learning Experiences with Screencastify
Inquiry Question: How can educators collaborate with students and leverage their expertise to improve their instructional practices to benefit future learners? ISTE Educator Standard 4’s second indicator, focuses on the ideas of collaboration and co-learning with students. In researching my inquiry question for this module, I began exploring how educators can cultivate collaboration with their…
Investigating the Journey of Food – A Community Engagement Project
As part of an ongoing and culminating project for my EDTC 6102 course this winter, my cohort members and I were asked to create a community engagement project using backward design thinking, from Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe’s Understanding by Design (UbD) Model. For my project, I decided I wanted to focus on our 4/5…
Inspiring Creative Communicators in Primary Grades
Inquiry Question: What digital tools can primary school students use to feel empowered in the learning process and that allows students to express their creativity in authentic ways? In my last module for my winter course EDTC 6102, my cohort members and I had the opportunity to develop an inquiry question around ISTE Standard 6…
Building an Understanding of Computational & Design Thinking
Inquiry Question How are computational thinking and design thinking similar and different? What strategies can educators use to interconnect these problem-solving processes and support our students in solving real-world problems? Reframing My Question At the beginning of this module in the exploration of ISTE Student Standard 5: Computational Thinking, I had produced the inquiry question…
Fostering Creativity, Empathy, & Real-World Problem Solving Through Design Thinking
Inquiry Question: How can teachers embed technology into design thinking, to promote creativity, empathy, and real-world problem-solving skills? What is Design Thinking? ISTE Student Standard 4: Innovative Designer is centered around students using a design process to help problem-solve and create solutions. As I began to explore potential inquiry questions connected to this standard, I…
Using Curation to Promote Digital Literacy & Higher-Order Thinking
Inquiry Question: How can teachers use curation to help their students build digital literacy skills and practice higher-order thinking? Curation Without Higher-Order Thinking = Collection In a digital age where information is produced, accessed, and shared in abundance, it is essential that our students are equipped with the necessary skills to effectively curate. While exploring…
Empowering Learners Through the Use of Digital Badges
Inquiry Question How can teachers empower students to demonstrate autonomy in setting and achieving learning goals through the utilization of technology? ISTE Standard 1 and Developed Solution In the first module of our EDTC 6102 course, my cohort and I were asked to explore ISTE student standard 1 through a developed inquiry question, using the…
