User:Lblarsen

Lori-Beth Larsen earned an MA in TESOL from St. Cloud State University. She has a BA in Ethnomusicology from the University of Hawaii and a Reading certification from Minnesota State, Mankato. She has been teaching for about 25 years. She teaches English, Reading, Global Studies, and English for Academic Purposes. She grew up in Papua New Guinea and has lived in Minnesota, USA, Hawaii, USA, and Micronesia. She loves to travel. Her passion in education is to make connections. As a mother and a teacher, she aspires to inspire her daughter and her students to find ways to make connections and make their learning meaningful. She finds this quote by Jesse Stommel describes her quest fairly well, "that educators and students alike have found themselves more and more flummoxed by a system that values assessment over engagement, learning management over discovery, content over community, outcomes over epiphanies." Critical Digital Pedagogy: a Definition Published on November 18, 2014. '''She is flummoxed, but curious and motivated to continue the quest to make learning more meaningful. '''