Technology

Integration
through
Professional
Development

How do we support teacher learning

online and on-site?*
* Borthwick, A., & Pierson, M. (2008). Transforming classroom practice: Professional development strategies in
educational technology. Chapter 11. ISTE: Eugene, OR
 Abstract

• Construct Networked Learning

Communities

• Using Web 2.0 tools to support

collaboration for learning

• Apply Coach (not director) Model

of Professional Development

The...Abstract • Data • Evaluation • Tools • Community • ?’s

Research Data Shows
• A growing host of new online
learning technologies

• A Scarcity of funds

• A Need for Professional

Development

The...Challenge • Data • Evaluation • Tools • Community • ?’s

Project Evaluation Includes
1. Classroom Observation

2. Training Observation

3. Interviews

4. Focus Groups

5. Bimonthly teacher blogs

6. Online communication

7. Teacher lessons and projects

8. Student samples and scores

The...Challenge • Data • Evaluation • Tools • Community • ?’s

 Web 2.0 Tools
Dilemmas:

1. Authentic Audience

2. Writing Inexperience

3. Unfamiliar Tasks

The...Challenge • Model • Evaluation • Tools • Community • ?’s

 The Community Advantage
The...Challenge • Model • Assessment • Tools • Community • ?’s
 Networked Learning
Communities

...to manage our own learning

...to share with and in the learning

of others

How...Challenge • Model • Assessment • Tools • Community • ?’s

 Networked Learning
Communities
“Systems that help learners take
control of and manage their own
learning” – M. Harmelen, PhD FOR...

• Systemic Change

• Technology Integration

• Staff Development Programming

How...Challenge • Model • Assessment • Tools • Community • ?’s

 Networked Learning
Communities
Four PD Strands Targeted...

1. Online coaching

2. On-site coaching

3. Ongoing School/District support

4. Summer institutes

How...Challenge • Model • Assessment • Tools • Community • ?’s

 Networked Learning
Communities
Motivational Challenges

1. Value > Busyness of Teachers

2. Vision (adopted)

3. Situated learning (relevant)

4. Impetus to change (synergistic)

How...Challenge • Model • Assessment • Tools • Community • ?’s

 Aggregate • Consolidate • Organize

Technology Integration
Your...Message • Research • Assessment • Tools • Community • ?’s
 Networked Learning
Communities
• Network

Web 2.0 platforms to connect and

share in the learning of a community
with similar interests and
responsibilities.

(“Web 2.0 tools are at least a partial

solution to the TIME challenge”)

How...Challenge • Model • Assessment • Tools • Community • ?’s

 Technology Community
+
Integration Creation
How...Challenge • Model • Assessment • Tools • Community • ?’s
A NLC is constructed as its members collaborate to achieve common goals, learning together as
they develop solutions for problems they are addressing in common. As the NLC grows, the
members of the community develop new knowledge and skills through their participation and
contributions.
Technology Integration
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