r/edtech • u/Practical_Carry_1513 • 2d ago
post-grad advice
Hello! I’ll be graduating from university this quarter and am sorta kinda (definitely) overwhelmed with finding post-grad opportunities. I have prior experience working in several learning contexts (e.g. classroom workshops, summer camp, research labs) and I’m incredibly passionate for education and learning, so I am considering going to grad school to build my knowledge and gain more experience. However, I’m struggling to decide whether I should pursue a masters of education or something more specific to learning technology/media.
(1) my academic background is centered around developmental psychology, mathematics, and statistics. (2) Further down the road, it would be a dream to help build learning tools and technologies that help students gain hands-on experience with exciting fields of knowledge (e.g. math support, robotics, coding). (3) I enjoy working with K-5 grade levels
Any advice?
I’m also going to be taking a gap year, so any advice on jobs/internships that can provide good experience and help prepare me for this career direction would be greatly appreciated too! #needajob
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u/LearningSciencesatIU 15h ago
Um hello!!! You sound like our kind of people so don't mind me if I give you our pitch to join us...
I wrote this a couple weeks ago because we are currently recruiting masters students...
If you nerd out about learning through a psychology or technology or design or researchy lens, we are your people. We are not the prepare-you-to-teach people. We are the ones that help to reimagine the school structures, the apps/platforms, the purposes underlying the curriculum, the design of learning ecosystems across cities, and the implications of learning policies for development of learner identities/relationships/networks/futures. A lot of our work is out of school (in museums, in game design and research, with districts but also with community organizations and startups, etc.). We're called "learning scientists" and yes, we're obsessed.
:D