Running head: Supporting Learning and Leadership with Technology

Redesign: Supporting Learning and Leadership with Technology Lauraly DuBois EDU 697 Capstone: A Project Approach Instructor: Dr. Keith Pressey 1/13/2014

SUPPORTING LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP Supporting Learning and Leadership with Technology During the previous EDU649 course, I wondered how educational instructors could both encourage learning and leadership supported by various technologies. I will review what I have learned this week in regard to learning and leadership as well as gained experience from previous courses within the MATLT program. My discussion will include my own steps to learning and leadership using technology including principles analyzed during week five. Next, I will review instructional design principles and theories applied during my redesign and those learned in previous courses. Steps to redesigning my previous assignment will be highlighted as well as challenges experienced throughout the redesign process. I have learned the interconnections among learning and leadership while incorporating technological resources to support learning. Learning promotes leadership especially when using collaborative learning techniques (Raelin, 2006). Action learning is discussed as promoting learners to reach outside the normal comfort zone and experience new environments and situations promoting leadership actions (2006). I believe supporting learning and leadership in the classroom must first begin with the instructor putting on the role of instructional leader to light the path toward becoming a leader within the learning environment. Redesign for MATLT Learning Outcome #8 I chose EDU 649 Educational Teaching and Learning with Technology for Week 4 Methods and Media for Instructional Design assignment as my redesign. The initial assignment evaluated the importance of selecting the method of instruction first before identifying the supporting technology to achieve the objectives of the instruction (Newby, Stepich, Lehman, Russell & Ottenbreit-Leftwich, 2011). I transformed the previous five page assignment into a blogsite with a short introduction and link to a linear online display. I used the free portion of

SUPPORTING LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP Piktochart.com to create a visual display of methods to instruction using definitions from the text for that course as well as the list of media selections to enhance the selected instruction method. The online display provides a purpose for using each of the ten methods of instruction. Next, the available media selections were listed to support the instruction method. I believe the redesign meets the requirement of PLO #8 Demonstrate the ability to make informed decisions regarding the use of technology in support of learning and leadership due to the need for instructional leaders to realize the importance of focusing on the instruction first and then the technology to support the intended learning outcomes. While my redesign is not a PowerPoint presentation, I still decided to incorporate the 7x7 Rule for PowerPoint (Pressey, 2013). Additional design principles and theories included in the redesign are the decorative visuals on each page to enhance the attention of the learner on each page (Clark & Mayer, 2011). While incorporating Morguefile.com free pictures on each slide, I also adhered to the coherence principle not to clutter each page with too many graphics (2011). The display of information on the redesign is an example of the Cognitivist principle introducing the learner to new knowledge changing the learners previous awareness about a subject (Dabbagh, 2006). The ethical aspects for learning and leadership using technology involve the instructors responsibility to provide a quality instruction and transfer of knowledge for the intended activity deliverables. The commonly used statement "technology is a means to an instructional end, not an end in itself" should be at the forefront of the instructional leaders plan to first determine the purpose for the learning outcomes (Lever-Duffy & McDonald, 2011).

SUPPORTING LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP Redesign Challenges My redesign challenge in transforming the original five page document into a new online technology resource included selecting a technology different from all previous formats I have used before. After watching a few tutorials, I determined Piktochart looked to be a promising new technology tool for my redesign. I looked through my original assignment and determined supporting learning and leadership must first begin with the instructor as a leader in their learning objective plan. I spent a few days creating the online linear pages while painstakingly referencing ten of the instructional methods described by Newby, Stepich, Lehman, Russell and Ottenbreit-Leftwich (2011). I then listed five of the media selections described by Lever-Duffy and McDonald (2011) but went back and forth on whether I should list specific pages for each item as I did for the methods of instruction. I decided not to bore the user as each of the five items (i.e. audio/visual, models, multimedia, real objects and text) include common knowledge terms. After completion of the Piktochart online web product, I thought this product only allowed saving my work as a pdf or picture file. I was not happy to think I had to spend additional time to now add a blog in addition to all of the work I did with the Piktochart since I lost power one day last week when the arctic chill came into town and then my furnace went out the following day. I was pretty sickly the next three days, missed work and barely finished my discussion question on time. I determined Piktochart did provide a web link but I did not think this link would be enough for my redesign so I added a short blog to introduce the Piktochart graphic on my blogsite. I look forward to your comments to improve my redesigned result. I have discussed my journey with you in understanding the responsibility of the instructor to provide a learning and leadership experience when using technology for my redesign. The

SUPPORTING LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP transformation of the initial assignment into an online depiction of learning and leadership through the selection of the appropriate instructional methods before media selection were reviewed. Instructional design principles and their application to the assignment were discussed in relation to the redesign. Ethical considerations were also touched upon in relation to the role of the instructor. Finally, challenges in repurposing the original assignment into an online depiction of appropriate instructional methods were shared. The link to view the redesigned assignment as a visual depiction may be accessed by clicking on the following link http://www.learningleadershipweek5.blogspot.com.

SUPPORTING LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP References

Clark, R. C. & Mayer, R. E. (2011). E-Learning and the science of instruction (3rd ed). San Francisco. Pfeiffer. Dabbagh, N. (2006). Instructional design knowledge base. Retrieved from http://classweb.gmu.edu/ndabbagh/Resources/IDKB/models_theories.htm Lever-Duffy, J. & McDonald, J. B. (2011). Teaching and learning with technology (4th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc./Allyn & Bacon. Newby, T. J., Stepich, D. A., Lehman, J. D., Russell, J. D., & Ottenbreit-Leftwich, A. (2011). Educational technology for teaching and learning (4th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc. Pressey, K.(2013). 7x7 Rule for PowerPoint. Retrieved from http://classroom.ashford.edu. Raelin, J. (2006). Does Action Learning Promote Collaborative Leadership?. Academy Of Management Learning & Education, 5(2), 152-168. doi:10.5465/AMLE.2006.21253780