Welcome to the Let Them Learn blog page! While you may have perused through some of the old content, everything from her on out is completely new. I created this site when I was studying for my Master’s Program in digital learning and leading at Lamar University. However, that was about four years ago and time has passed since I used this site. I decided to convert this site from that, to this new site that I can share with others.
A lot of the content from the Master’s Program is still useful in today’s ever changing, but still the same education system and a lot of the ideas I learned about make up who I am today as an educator which is part of the reason I wanted to reimagine this site. I have seen many educators create wonderful content to share with others such as podcasts, social media accounts, videos and so much more so I figured why not join that space as well and share what you believe and have learned? So here we are.
This has been two years in the making where it all started when I presented at the TCCA conference in Aldine ISD. That was followed by the Region 4 DLC as well where I presented on Using Video Games to Build student Literacy. I have tweaked and refined this presentation for the last two years and again presented at the TCCA and Region 4 DLC. But it wasn’t until recently where my proposal to present was accepted at the TCEA conference which just passed two weeks ago and at the ISTE Conference happening this June, 2023 in Philadelphia. When I applied to these conferences last year, both declined and I was distraught thinking that my idea would never pick up. But look at me now, a year removed and I am presenting at both!
TCEA was a bitter sweet presentation. My family had recently suffered a loss to a family member who lived in San Antonio, where the conference was being held. While I was excited to present, I was dealing with emotional turmoil as well as being away from my family for a few days. San Antonio also decided that it wanted to be a cold city for those few days and attendees were definitely not ready for the madness that happened with the change in weather.
Nonetheless, we adapted, made due, and enjoyed four days of great learning. I’ll talk about the conference in another post, but all-in-all it was a great experience and my colleague and I will hope to be back next year with much more to show!
I am excited for this journey into a space where I can share the many ideas I have had and learned in my so far, 8 years of educational experience, plus my experiences as a student that I can recall. While some thoughts may be controversial, they are a means to implement change in educators, administrators, students, parents, and all other parties involved. At the core of it all, we are people in a capacity to serve young adults and help mold them into productive citizens.
Education needs to shift to a much different format because the traditional ways of teaching and learning have not been effective especially in these last three years during and post pandemic. There was a great opportunity to implement change, but yet, we as an education system mostly went back to the old ways which has created more new problems. Things need to change, educators need to adapt to different mindsets, parents need to be more involved and students need to take control of their learning.
Thank you for joining me on this journey and I hope we can learn from each other.
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