Most of my units encourage me to draw upon my own experience as an educator so it isn’t too hard (although there is A LOT of work) and it is fun! Becuase I am a very unique type of educator. I am learning a lot about games and how one could use game as an educational Digital Learning Environment (DLE). I am also learning a lot about digital citizenship and exploring what that could mean. I am taking four units and I do feel overlwealmed. One unit had this topic that took me two weeks of holiday time to finish. Although the readings are amazing, I feel that there are too many to properly contemplate over them and unfortunately neglegected my other units over the holiday.
At the end of the day I just have to digest the content quickly and then focus on my assignments. Hopefully what I digested will be good enough to pass my units. Some of this work feels above my capabilties because I am not a normal educator but I will work very hard to achieve a high level of quality in my work. I feel that I have too much to do and maybe next semester I will think of doing three units instead of four even though I wanted to finish my degree in one year.
I am learning a lot about what it means to be an educator in the 21st century. I am being exposed to many different theories on pedagogy. I am learning a lot about games and how they are/can be used for educational purposes. I am also doing a lot of film work that is related to my assignments that helps me clear up my comprehension of the subjects.