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It is so interesting to think that as we are taking this journey through our Master's Program, our ideas and research questions slowly change and adapt based on what we are learning, and who our audience is.
As I have thought more and more about my own classroom and my students' needs, my driving question has changed. While I started with a question that focused on technology to increase math skills, professional development and changes in my district helped encourage me to narrow my ideas. This past January, my school district has implemented Google Apps for Education (GAFE) for 3-5 grade. Educators at my school district have been offered a bevy of trainings and development opportunities in the area of GAFE. With such a specific focus at my school and district, I decided to shift my driving question to ask how can GAFE (specifically) help me personalize learning for my students, and increase their math skills. I have been using GAFE more consistently in my class during math rotations. Students have watched videos, used google forms to answer questions, and even created line plots on google drawing. I am definitely still learning how to best use GAFE for my students, and I have not spent enough time making the learning as personal as it can be. I hope in the near future that I can provide several videos or several assignments in order to let students choose based on their needs/abilities. My driving question has also refocused due to being asked to consider the audience of my research project. Originally, I did not consider this! I was focusing on myself and the students in my own classroom. While thinking of other educators who might replicate a study like this in their own classrooms, I wanted to focus my question on a specific program/site to personalize learning and increase math skills. I hope that an educator hoping to use GAFE in their classroom can find my website and capstone project in order to get ideas!
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