EDLD 5317: Resources Digital Environment
This course has taught me how to write an article for publication in the education field. Blended Learning has always been my focus since I started this EDLD program. My innovation plan discusses the importance of building a blended learning culture in elementary classrooms. My students are very important to me and I know that as a teacher I need to use any available learning methods and tools to give them the best education possible. As part of this course, I had to understand what are the requirements needed to write an article for publication. So, I found three publications websites and begin to follow their instructions for submission. I built out a publication outline.
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After building out my publication outline, it was time for me to write a rough draft. When writing my rough draft, I had to align it with the kind of leader I am in advocating for Blended Learning. As a thought leader, the primary conceptual process includes prediction, a critical aspect that would facilitate the positioning of digital tools for blended learning. Integrating Blended Learning rotation and individual classroom models within an elementary environment steers a confirmatory status in the predictive feature.
I support Blended learning and have explained its need in our elementary classroom learning environment, curriculum, and culture.
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​Next, it was time to get feedback from my peers and instructor. I was able to work with three wonderful peers who rated my work and gave me some important feedback. This feedback can be found in my rough draft with peer review. I took my peers feedback very seriously and made the necessary changes
In order for me to get others to support my passion for building a Blended Learning culture in the classroom, I needed to create a long discussion media project to discuss Blended Learning. My media project is called Building a Blended Learning Culture in Elementary classrooms. In this segment, I talked about the key points:
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My passion for blended learning
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What is blended learning
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How blended learning looks in a classroom
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Data from using blended learning
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Education Field track to achieving blended learning
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After completing my long discussion, it was time for me to go back to my rough draft and create my final publication draft for the three publication websites I chose at the beginning of the course. I made all necessary changes suggested by my peers and instructor from the rough draft peer review assignment. I have submitted my article to the publication websites but have not received any response back as of now.
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This course has shown me that I have a voice in speaking about Blended Learning. I have seen the benefits of using Blended Learning. I have also discussed with my peers, other teachers, and done plenty of research to give data evidence that Blended Learning works. As I mentioned before, Blended Learning does more than help students close gaps in their learning. It boosts their confidence as well. I support blended learning and have explained its need in our elementary classroom learning environment, curriculum, and culture.
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