The learning journal prompts are short assignments that ask you to reflect on your own educational history, imagine a new future, or read something closely. These assignments will typically be a few hundred words or their multimedia equivalent in images, audio, video, code, etc. You may respond to the prompt in words, images, videos, cartoons, code, links, gifs, etc. Most, but not all, sessions have a learning journal assignment to be done before arriving at that session.
Session 2
Your own personal history of education technology. In your learning journal, describe in detail one memorable interaction/relationship with learning technology, or describe the arc of your interactions over your school career.
Session 3
Compose a “Venn diagram” of situated learning and cognitive load theory. What areas do both discuss? What are separate areas of inquiry? Where do they agree? Disagree? Not overlap at all?
Session 4
Use some form of generative AI to comment on generative AI in education.
Session 7
Summarize the implementation arc of radio, television, teaching machines, or computers in schools.
Session 9
Describe your learning experiences with EdTech at MIT.
Session 12
Write a page in your learning journal describing one of your ongoing online learning practices—for a hobby, or classes, or anything else.
Session 13
Write a page in your learning journal that describes your initial ideas for essay #2: What technology will you evaluate? What learning context will you engage in? What else do you need to learn?
Session 14
What learning games did you play in your youth? Or what do you think you have learned from playing games?
Session 18
Describe the topic, methods, and approach for your final paper.
Session 20
Write a rubric guiding me on how to evaluate your final essay.
Session 24
Complete the prompt: “I used to think … but now I think …”
