“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.”

“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.” -- Albert Einstein

I find that I quote Albert Einstein more than I should. Like this quote: "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." That a quote attributed to Einstein that I use in my line of work ... a lot. I never give up until I run out of ideas. And if I run out of ideas, I am disappointed in myself and I come up with a few more.

This week has been a week where I feel I have run out of ideas. Therefore, I am disappointed in myself. This feeling is not isolated to EdTech 564, but extends across the several courses I am studying. I am realizing not only how much I don't know, but how difficult it is for me to communicate my ideas. Yet I am grateful for deadlines so I do not continue down the rabbit hole of "what else can I try."

I have finished my first draft of Instruction Unit Proposal. I look forward to feedback from my peers as I don't know if what I have in my head has been transcribed to paper as well as I would like it to be. I love the idea of this unit and I am just hoping that the addition of games and technology will increase the engagement of students.

Developing an Instructional Unit

This past week I have been developing an instructional unit that will integrate components of AR/VR/Game/Mobile devices. I currently teach two undergraduate courses in digital forensics. I teach an intro course and a small device forensics course. I am leaning towards developing this unit for the intro course, Introduction to Computer Related Crime. I have taught this course on campus for the last two years, but next semester I go back to teaching this course online.

It is important for me to teach online courses that are interactive and I believe that adding a game component to this course could greatly enhance student learning. I am also looking at the Bloom Taxonomy and realizing that creation is an upper level learning attribute that could take my students from passive learning to active learning.

I have three various activities chosen that I am building my unit around. One of them I already introduced this semester with some success. In class I have students take apart a computer and look at the parts. Online, this activity is missing. An AR google expedition, however, allows to look at computer parts in interactive 3D. I am excited to further expand this module.