4/29/2023 – As a learner, I want to embrace new information and methodology with an open mind that is willing to listen to understand. Thus, I want to model a Growth Mindset in my learning in the Applied Digital Learning (ADL) program. As I have shared with my students and colleagues, your brain neuroplasticity grows impactfully through failure (not success) so that you fail forward as you learn (Brock & Hundley, 2017). I appreciate how our instructors in the ADL program offer feedforward and allow us to resubmit our work as a strategy to fail forward and grow in our learning (Harapnuik 2020). In addition, having the freedom to try out various digital formats for my assignments in order to reach my audience allows me to take risks and learn from my mistakes. This is another failing forward strategy that has profoundly affected my learning.
As I share in my Learning Manifesto, growth in learning is more crucial than achieving a grade (Harapnuik et al. 2018; Horn 2014). Learning is like a piece of art or a piece of writing – there is always something more that can be added to it. Thus, one area of my learning that I am working on growing as I develop my ePortfolio and continue through the ADL program is my Professional Learning Networks. I am a member of several Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) in my district and another in this program where I meet with these groups in-person or in virtual meetings. However, I am working on broadening this more nationally and globally through networks.
I also appreciate having choice, ownership, and voice in this authentic learning environment of the ADL program which I hope is evident in my Personal Blogs and in this ePortfolio website as I continue to work on it to improve it (Harapunik et al. 2018).
References:
Brock, A., & Hundley, H. (2017). The growth mindset playbook: A teacher’s guide to promoting student success. Ulysses Press.
Harapnuik, D., Thibodeaux, T., & Cummings, C. (2018). COVA: Choice, ownership, and voice through authentic learning (0.9) [eBook]. Creative Commons License.
Harapnuik, D. (2020, April 30). Feedfoward vs. Feedback. Harapnuik.org. Retrieved April 29, 2023, from https://www.harapnuik.org/?p=8273
Horn, M. B., Staker, H., & Christensen, C. M. (2014). Blended: Using disruptive innovation to improve schools. Wiley.
Wings and a Wand 