On this page, you can find the course work for Concepts of Educational Technology. You will find my plan for creating, planning, and implementing the Growth mindset in myself and around me.
Through each post I was able to learn what the growth mindset meant to me. The best way I can describe the growth mindset is a perennial flower. Growing up my father loved to garden, and his favorite type of flower to purchase were perennial flowers. Up until my teenage years I did not understand his obsession with these flowers. I asked, “Why don’t you just buy flowers that bloom year round? Or just buy new flowers every year?” His response was, “Because these flowers are resilient.”
To me the growth mindset is like the perennial flowers we don’t fail we go into winter and wait for our season to bloom again. The “annual” flowers are misleading, as those flowers have to be replanted every year. Perennials on the other hand only have to be planted once, and they will regrow as long as the conditions are met. As if to prove my father’s point, his perennials continued to bloom for a few years after he passed despite not being cared for by anyone.
When it comes to our own growth and failure, we have to be in charge of taking care of our learning. If we channel our failure into a learning opportunity we will grow every time we fail, every time we experience a winter in our life. Failures are only as permanent or temporary as we make them.
We choose how to view our failure. It may take some time to adjust our mindset, but it is still our choice to make that adjustment. Which brings me to (C)hoice, (O)wnership, (V)oice, and (A)uthentic learning opportunities. COVA has shaped the way I learn in this program because it is genuinely my learning. When I show my coworkers my blog, they immediately know that every piece of this blog is me. When reading my posts they can hear my voice in my posts. They can see the choices I made, and they can see the pride I take in claiming ownership of my ePortfolio.
Contributions to myself and others
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Learning Manifesto
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The Growth Mindset Plan
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Professional Learning Networks (PLN)
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