Please note: The DLL course goals and program map must be read from the bottom starting from EDLD 5302, & 5303 then moving onto 5305 and so on. The large red text points to the main plan, strategy, or publication that you will have created upon completion of the course.
CSLE+COVA Capstone
EDLD 5320
Learners will synthesize their knowledge, skills, beliefs, and values gained through their digital learning and leadership experiences and present a comprehensive plan on how they developed into digital learners and leaders that can identify and promote innovation, create significant digital learning environments, and lead organizational change.
EDLD 5318
Learners will apply constructivist learning theories and instructional design principles in the development and delivery of an online course utilizing significant learning environments through selected course management tools.
EDLD 5388/5389
Learners will effectively apply an innovative teaching practice by collaborating with colleagues to evaluate their impact on learners and design and model authentic professional learning (PL) activities that are active, have a significant duration, and are specific to their discipline.
EDLD 5316
Learners will be able to navigate the emerging educational and legal challenges of a knowledge society where most K-12 students are deeply immersed in online communication, having grown up as “digital natives.”
EDLD 5317
Learners will examine a variety of digital environments and other digital resources to effectively communicate with others the practical implementation and the pedagogical value for educational use.
EDLD 5314
Learners will analyze and assess global educational technology innovation projects to determine what worked and what could be done better and apply those lessons learned to local innovation projects.
EDLD 5315
Learners will be able to assess the instructional impact the implementation of their innovation plans have on creating effective digital learning environments.
EDLD 5304
Learners will be equipped with tools to be a self-differentiated leader who can address the inevitable resistance to change that will occur when launching innovative digital learning initiatives.
EDLD 5305
Learners will identify technology innovations and embrace them as opportunities rather than challenges and proactively use those changes as catalysts to enhance their institution or district’s learning environments.
EDLD 5302
Learners will take ownership and agency over the learning process and incorporate learner choice and voice in designing authentic projects that use technology innovations as a catalyst for change in their organizational setting.
EDLD 5303
Learners will prepare and submit an ePortfolio that demonstrates their mastery of the learning outcomes for previously completed professional development work.
I have been an avid reader from the time I learned how to read. In first grade, I read over 150 books and the next closest student read less than a dozen. I spent a lot of time in libraries over the years so books have been a big part of my life. Now with Kindle and Audible, I take my reading with me where everywhere I go and it has only gotten better. I often listen to a book a week and when you factor in all the other traditional reading I will read 60-80 books a year.
Over the past few years, I have been using Goodreads to track my reading but I am finding that I haven’t been as diligent in maintaining my book list as I should. I am often asked by students or other folks what books I would recommend and once I find out what they are really interested in learning I can point to an assortment of titles that I have read and can recommend.
The intention of the following list is to provide a place where I can point people to a book that they may find useful. I think the reason that I may not have started a list like this much earlier is that I always assumed that I should write a short annotation, review, or summary for each of the entries. I have decided to not do this because it would just take too long at this point. But, I do plan on doing a top 10 list for most of the categories at some point which would include a review or a minimum a detailed annotation. The books are separated into different categories and if the book is on this list I have read it (often more than once) and I recommend it. I will be adding the books on a regular basis and adding additional categories as necessary. For example, I haven’t included any of the books on parenting, theology, science, philosophy, and a few other areas—YET.
I haven’t ranked or rated the books in the categories below and for the most part, the most recent books I have read or reread are closer to the top of the list in each category. I must repeat I only put books on this list that I have read completely and would recommend. I have read so many more that obviously aren’t on this list.
PLEASE NOTE: All of the hyperlinks are from the Amazon Associates program, and if you choose to buy the book through the links below I’ll get a small commission that I use to buy and read more books from Amazon and Audible. When you read as much as I do the cost of all these books does add up so please consider helping me feed my reading habit. If you want to buy the book, but don’t want to use the link, feel free to search for it on Amazon or Audible (or anywhere).
The Big Picture How to Succeed in the DLL
If you haven’t already reviewed this page and the related links you owe it to yourself to spend the 30 minutes that it will take to see how to really do well in the DLL.
The Big Picture – EDLD 5303 Week 1 Assignment Tips
WordPress Self Hosting Recommendation
If I were to start my ePortfolio/blog from scratch today I would use self-hosted WordPress on a hosting service like Bluehost. This is exactly what I have been using since 2006. The only regret I have was that from 2006-2009 I posted on a WordPress site for a college I worked at rather than my own domain and when I left that college I left three years of posts behind. Don’t make this same mistake–post your work on a site your own. You can always cross-post to another site.
The cost for a self-hosted WordPress site on Bluehost is as low as $4 per month and there are special deals for college/university students and faculty at http://www.bluehost.com/hosting/education.
In the CSLE+COVA Workshop for the Lamar University School of Education Teacher Education Workshop on July 25, 2018, we explored how:
We can make a more significant impact on our learners by giving them authentic learning opportunities to prepare them to thrive in the real world.
We can equip our learners to solve complex problems and realize their greatest potential when we give them choice, ownership, and a voice through these authentic learning opportunities.
ePortfolios can be leveraged to support these learning opportunities and to engage learners as they find their voice in sharing their creations.
The following books, videos, and methods were used or referred to in the workshop. You can access the workshop slide deck from – add link here
Workshop Videos
Please note that additional videos have been included that were not viewed in the workshop.
How to Fold a Shirt in Under 2 Seconds
CSLE+COVA Change in Focus Part A
CSLE+COVA Change in Focus Part B
Digital Learning
Specialized Demo 7 Build
How to Implement the CSLE+COVA Framework
If someone needs directions, don’t give them a globe. It’ll merely waste their time. But if someone needs to understand the way things are, don’t give them a map. They don’t need directions; they need to see the big picture (Seth Godin, 2017 para. 1).
In order to effectively implement the CSLE+COVA framework, you need to see the bigger picture of how these well established constructivist ideas come together. More specifically you need to see the bigger picture of how to create a significant learning environment in which we give you choice ownership and voice through authentic learning opportunities.
The following pages and videos have been designed to help you understand why and how to use CSLE+COVA framework and what that will mean to your learning experience and your organization. We recommend that you use the following pages in sequence but as you will see as you become more familiar with the CSLE+COVA framework we leave that choice up to you. We also want to point out that these are the same theoretical, pedagogical, and practical principles that we use in the Master of Digital Learning (DLL) and Leading at Lamar University so you will be in good company with hundreds of other educators who are looking to use technology to enhance the learning.
CSLE+COVA Research & Theoretical Foundation – https://www.harapnuik.org/?page_id=7079
You will find links to the peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters that directly point to research that supports the COVA+CSLE approach and also to the theoretical foundation and supporting research that informs the CSLE+COVA.
Reference
Harapnuik, D. K., Thibodeaux, T. N., & Cummings, C. D. (2018). Choice, Ownership, and Voice through Authentic Learning Opportunities. https://www.harapnuik.org/?page_id=7291
How to Succeed in the DLL
If you haven’t already reviewed this page and the related links you owe it to yourself to spend the 30 minutes that it will take to see how to really do well in the DLL.
New Culture of Learning
Creating Learning Significant Environment – EDLD 5313 Week 1 Assign Tips
Organic Learning – we need to create the environment in which the learner can do the learning, grow and flourish.
Opening Up Spaces for Answers – Why we run EDLD 5305 the course on innovation planning before we run EDLD 5313, the course on creating significant learning environments
Four keys to understanding learning theories – Regardless of where you land in your thinking about learning the fact that you are thinking about learning and how learning works means that your learners will benefit.
Foster Inquisitiveness Rather than Rebuild It – When we focus on the right answers instead of starting with questions we not only extinguish our learner’s ability to question, inquire and innovate we create an environment of rewards and punishment that fosters fear in the learner when they aren’t able to regurgitate the right answer.
What are the best ways to study for the test? Read this review from Scientific American to see which techniques accelerate information retention and which techniques are just a waste of time. While the introduction to the article suggests that the focus is on learning the reality is this article focuses on how to improve information transfer and test achievement. Unfortunately, some folks equate this with learning–but it is not.
4 Keys to aligning outcomes activities & assessment – There is an easy way and a difficult way to work through Fink’s taxonomy and the 3 column table – please take my advice and use this post and use the easy way.
Mapping Your Learner’s Journey – It is our responsibility to guide our learners through their personal development journey and help them take ownership of their learning.
Why Create Significant Learning Environments – Are you looking at the bigger picture or have you intellectually stepped far enough back to see the full learning environment?
Why you need a BHAG to design learning environments – Use a Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) to help define a visionary type goal that is more strategic and emotionally compelling rather than being simply tactical.
COVA+CSLE Mindset vs Traditional – Comparison of the COVA+CSLE Mindset and Motivation with the Traditional Teacher-Centered Approach
Mindset – Overview of Dweck book, site, and related videos and resources
Fixed Vs Growth Mindset = Print Vs Digital Information Age – This notion of adapting to a constantly changing environment is also important when we consider our move from a static print information age to the dynamic digital information age.
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