Category: Applied Digital Learning

This Innovation Proposal is my pitch to local school districts to adopt a pilot of my program. I address the concerns that my plan addresses, a brief summary of how I want to implement the plan, and the benefits that this could result in for students and the school districts alike. This page is the…

My learning philosophy is that it is imperative to provide students with opportunities to take ownership of their learning through creativity and to develop a skillset that can be utilized beyond the classroom. Please view Sir Ken Robinson’s TEDtalk on creativity and how it is the key to our future. A point Sir Ken Robinson…

When determining what my innovation plan was going to be, I was drawn to the idea of ePortfolios. If implemented correctly, they serve as a very useful tool in the development of necessary skills that our future work force requires. It’s all fine and dandy to appreciate the theoretical application of ePortfolios, but getting hands…

The power of a growth mindset is immeasurable. Below, I explore what growth mindset means to me in terms of my own learning and the learning of others. Please review this TEDtalk by Carol Dweck for more information from one of the pioneers of growth mindset herself. Growth mindset is a learning philosophy that focuses…

This topic has become of great interest to me recently as I have struggled to determine how to implement my innovation plan for EDLD 5305. On one hand, I can go down one path and receive access to better funding and connections, however I would lose the program as my own intellectual property. On the…

5305 – Week 1 Hello! My name is Madison Perez and this is my first blog post since starting my masters program at Lamar University. I am majoring in Applied Digital Learning (ADL as I will refer to it throughout the site), and am very excited to see where this journey takes me. I am…

I thoroughly enjoyed Sir Ken Robinson’s TED talk titled, “Bring on the learning revolution!” I found it utterly inspiring and it transformed my outlook on change in education. Mr. Robinson at one point states something along the lines of, “we don’t need an evolution, but a revolution.” Funny enough, my initial tagline for my personal…