Author: bbarranti

As I work through my Master’s research, I’ve real­ized it makes more sense to focus specif­i­cal­ly on Eng­lish Lan­guage Learn­ers (ELLs) rather than try­ing to address the broad­er cat­e­go­ry of diverse learn­ers. This deci­sion comes from my expe­ri­ences in the … Read More

“Tech­nol­o­gy-Enhanced Wood­work Project and Course Design: Plan­ning Through Learn­ing Design and Edu­ca­tion­al The­o­ry.” Wel­come to my pre­sen­ta­tion, which accom­pa­nies my research paper on “Tech­nol­o­­gy-Enhanced Wood­work Project and Course Design: Plan­ning Through Learn­ing Design and Edu­ca­tion­al The­o­ry.” The essen­tial goal of … Read More

Here is my Learn­ing Activ­i­ty Design Pro­pos­al sub­mit­ted for the final project in this course. BBar­ran­ti 565 Assign­ment 2_ Learn­ing Activ­i­ty Design Pro­pos­al

Hav­ing expe­ri­enced both face-to-face and online learn­ing envi­ron­ments, I’ve gained insight into the pros and cons of each approach. My online jour­ney began as a mid­dle school wood­work teacher dur­ing the COVID-19 shut­down, and now online as a stu­dent as … Read More

In this course we looked into var­i­ous learn­ing the­o­ries (behav­iourism, cog­ni­tivism, con­struc­tivism, social learn­ing, con­nec­tivism) with­in the con­text of teach­ing. When asked to describe my own teach­ing prac­tices and sub­se­quent stu­dent learn­ing with­in these the­o­ries, and my belief around how … Read More

My best struc­tured learn­ing expe­ri­ence? I began my teach­ing career in 2001 and have thus had too many learn­ing expe­ri­ences than I can list, or even remem­ber! For 18 years I have pri­mar­i­ly been a Wood­work teacher and due to … Read More