Jennifer Horner MillerLearning Technology PhD Student

College of Information

Who Am I?

Johnson City, TexasEarly, Texas

Stephenville, TexasFort Worth, Texas

I am a Student….

I am a Teacher…..Nationals 2003 CTE TCEA Student Ambassadors

Project Share & Ignite Speakers NASA & RICE University4-6th Grade Accept NASA Challenge

Summer 2012

Leading 1:1 K12 Initiative 2010 - 2014

Change Agent

Museum WiFi Project

Mentoring Program

STEM Programs

Digital Instructional Leader

DeveloperSTEM to STEAM

20122013

2015

I Believe Learning Technology

● Provides improved ability for collaboration, research, creation, reflection, publishing, and evaluation of learning.

● Provides a medium to access and communicate information, enriching and deepening social exchanges, which produces new to the world ideas and knowledge.

● Levels educational opportunities to all citizens through the access of information and research opportunities.

● Allows for individualized approaches to ongoing reflection and feedback opportunities during the learning process. Individualized instruction improves the knowledge process as remediation and approaches target a specific customer need.

I Believe Learning Technology● Produces new forms of data to allow for improved decisions regarding

educational approaches.● Increases creativity opportunities through the employment of technology

applications.● Introduces students to a variety of perspectives, cultures, and beliefs.● Allows for the exchange ideas to a larger learning community, producing a

personalized learning social network in which participants share learning objects to a larger community. This process produces new to the world approaches and ideas at a rate never seen before.

● Extends learning beyond the physical environment and time, further deepening approaches to knowledge.

● Fosters the construction of career skill sets via real world approaches through simulation, technology enhanced learning environments, and applications used in industry.

Journey as a PhD Distributed Learning Tech Student

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Presented ISTE Poster 2012ISTE NASA CyberCafe

TEA STEAM Camp Grant

NASA ISTE STEAM Camp Curriculum Program● Robotics PD and NASA MMS PD

○ 18 teachers, Professional Development for All● June 2012● Submitted for Peer Review August 2012● Accepted Fall of 2012 for Publication ● Materials published in NASA Wavelength

Ideas - Literature Review - Research

STEAM Literature Review Dr. Lin Lin’s CECS 6000Summer 2012SITE 2013Paper Conference Proceeding PaperSTEAM for Student Engagement

After School Robotics Program

● Introduction To Research in Learning Tech 6511, Dr. Tandra Tyler-Woods

● IRB Approval for After School Robotics Study○ Fall 2012 Pretest, Spring 2013 Posttest

● ISTE Conference Proceeding Paper 2014

Fabrication STEAM CampCreated additional instructional design materials for STEAM Camp● IRB study for Summer 2013 STEAM camp● Received NASA Grant for Fabrication Program for

camp● STEM Semantic Survey, Career Interest Inventory● Analysis of Research in Educational Computing

6510, Dr. Rhonda Christensen ● Two Paper Conference Proceedings SITE 2014

STEAM Professional Development

Face to Face: ASCD, Texas Ed. Service Centers, ISTE, TCEA

MOOC Course Development: ● Creating Technology-Based Learning Environment Dr. D’Alba, Spring 2014, 6320● Advanced Educational Production DesignDr. Spector, Fall 2015, 6230

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Presentations

The Big Move

NASA MMS Student LedLaunch Maker Events

Need for Research Exploring STEM

Professional Development Programs

Personal Learning Theory

Exploratory Case Study

Hypothesis

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