I am excited to get going on this journey at long last! The most surprising thing for me in this first week was learning about the wide variety of applications for technology integration there exists in the economy, and the variety in scope and sequence for research opportunities further down the road. I forgot that the name of our program is both learning, and technology. I had initially ignored the latter, or rather I did not think of it in the way it has been presented to me this week. I just thought that I was going to blast forward with all sorts of new technological ideas and gadgets and that I would be at the leading edge of ed-tech by the time I finished my, what is sure to be ground-breaking, research in year two!
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