Artifact

Ideal Classroom

 

Course

MCOM 520 Selection and Utilization of Instructional Media

 

Outcome 5

Synthesizes best practices research and apply these findings to the development of effective communication techniques to foster active inquiry, collaboration, and guided interaction in a positive instructional technology learning environment.

 

Summary

The ideal classroom challenges the educator to design an instructional environment and lesson plan unique to the educator's learning philosophy and content he or she wishes to teach. This project explores the importance of creativity in the classroom and challenges the students working in this classroom to work as a creative community towards a common goal. The goal in the Teach.Create.Live classroom is for students to understand the process of play production from start to finish, digitally document the process, and connect with the community in order to fund and present their final product. The students in the classroom benefit by creating a quality production that is worthy of being presented in the community. The community benefits by connecting with innovative, creative youthful minds that will continue to grow and enrich the community.

 

Reflection

With budget difficulties in education, I did not see the value of this project at the start. I thought it would be more practical to be given a budget and then creating a classroom based on what I had to spend. I realized after completing the project that if we as educators stop allowing ourselves to dream we will never inspire our students to see past what they are given to strive for something more. Taking the time to dream up something meaningful and creative gives us something to keep working towards. Technology will continue to change education. However, our learners, our environment and instructional design need to continue to evolve with the technology in order for us to capital