Recap of CEP452

I wanted to use one of my posts to explain how I felt CEP 452 helped me in preparation to be a effective teacher. Whether we like it or not, technology is going to be apart of our careers, so we need to embrace it. I wrote about how technology is cruising along in a previous post, so feel free to take a look at it. There are some things that this course has taught me that I have not gotten from many others in the TE program, that being freedom to express yourself, and the idea that there isn't a right or wrong answer. Sara and Ira, came into this class explaining to us that this is a free range, less structured, and most responsibility was on the student to learn from it. This couldn't have been a better approach. Sure, the teachers could have used each lecture to go over each individual technology at extreme depth and detail, but honestly who enjoys that. What they wanted was to introduce us to them, give a short synopsis on what they do, and say "we leave it up to you to do the rest." I think by giving us the freedom to explore them by ourselves allowed us to figure out how these technologies could fit our lives and careers. The foundation of this course, is to show us "one size, doesn't fit all", so by saying "hey, here are a ton of technologies, you picked the ones that can help you the most- and fits the best". I have thoroughly enjoyed this class, and I found the technologies that fit me, and plan to use those in my career.