I got the opportunity to join in on a workshop at the Centre for International Education at UWCSEA with Punya Mishra, Ph.d @punyamishra. The topic was for administrators to understand the TPACK Model. I knew about this model and was looking forward to learning more about how to implement it here at SAS. Here are some of the notes I took with @jayatwood and @jasoncone.
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| Image from http://tpack.org/ |
The first part of the day was thinking about learning in the 21st century.
- Research show that students are not adept to using technology for learning
- Definition of learning is still very 'school-based' Made me think about these favorite videos: http://youtu.be/KM2Iv5D10Bs , http://youtu.be/by_eUi2C_g8 , http://youtu.be/hENtGSrOj5Y
- What is 21st Century Learning Document synthesising all the different theories. 3 areas - To Know, To Value and To Act - need to have a balance in these 3 areas.
- Foundational Knowledge (know) - content knowledged, ICT/Digital literacy, cross-disciplinary knowledge
- What is the cost of foundational knowledge -- especially within an externally dictated curriculum
- Humanistic Knowledge (value) - life/job skills (Self regulation skills), cultural competence, ethical/emotional awareness
- Meta Knowledge (act) - Problem Solving, critical thinking, communication / collaboration, creativity / innovation
- Literacy - how you define it is important. It's not just traditional views -- includes visual and images.
- Robert Sternberg at Oklahoma State University - Standardized scores are starting to be ou and Creativity is becoming a part of admissions requirements
- Assessment - You must teach to the "test" - the problem is that the tests may not be worth teaching to
- Finding the basics of 21st century skills to start conversations on to get people to start thinking - Where do you have these conversations?
Technology integration/innovation/PD (TPACK)
When the ETT is working with teachers, we need to frame our collaboration as we bring the TP and the teachers bring the PK so together we have it all!
Examples
- Distance to the moon - using Audacity as a data tool
- Representing educational tensions through images using Pixlr. Also use Pixlr for finding images of geometry transformations and translations
- Dynagraphs Applets representing a function in a dynamic way - Geometry Sketch Pad and Geogebra
- Xbox Kinect - Ireland and scratch - scratch.saorog.com
Developing TPACK
- Barriers
- Time, expertise, access, resources, support
- Levels of tech use in the classroom that is close to SAMR
- Mechanical - USE
- Meaningful - INTEGRATE
- Generative - INNOVATE
- Learning by Design
- Give them a design problem and have them come up with an answer
- Open ended problems
- Diversity within the group - cross-disciplinary
- Teaching & reflection
- somewhat limited b/c you don't know what you don't know
- Instructional modelling
- Watching a model
- Doesn't get people to internalize very well
- Learning Activities
- curriculum keyed learning activities
- http://activitytypes.wmwikis.net/ Great ideas for Activities and examples of technologies organized by subjects
- Using Deep Play to reflect on TPACK in micro/macro/reflecting ways
- Using digicam to see world in a different way.
- Find Letters
- Finding faces.
- Macro photo of the world
- Testing misconceptions
- Where does the ball fall? Tennis ball & video (e.g., Newton's 1st law)
- understanding understanding using video
- e.g., where does the condensation on Coke can come from?
- Where do shadows come from?
- How do we taste?
- Ideas Generated by the group of Approaches that work...
- How it's structured
- PLCs - embedded w/ a group
- How does it transfer back to the classroom?
- Exemplary class -- Lab classroom, Observe, Debrief. Using Evernote & Explain Everything
- Speed Dating - Appy Hour
- Demo Slams
- Student presentations at Lunch
- Bootcamp Basics (including online)
- Badges - Gamify
- Twilight sessions - 3:30/4:30 to share expertise. Have to do a certain number per year. 3 phases. 1. Intro, 2. Share Practice, 3. Reflective and future planning
- Teachers leading it -- they have credibility
- Goal setting - shared w/ Ed Tech Team. Must be tied to overall school goals, commitments, DSLOs, etc...
- As a school how do you reward it? How do you hire for it?
- Teachers yearly reflect on what they are doing in the classroom to integrate technology
- Action research toolkits provided to schools.
- Getting DATA!! Helps to know what to offer.
- Alcohol! Food!
- Have students teach the integrated tool - ie iMovie
- Don't teach the tool, have them do the activity which grounds it in context
- How it's framed
- Based around 21c Skills
- NETS
- Problems of practice
Trans-disciplinary skills for creativity
- One has to have deep knowledge in the discipline to be creative
- Without the rock of knowledge genius has no foundation - Rosamund E. M. Harding
- Where do the ideas of creative teachers come from?
- Have interests outside of the classroom.
- Passions are brought in which leads to creative teaching.
- 7 habits key trans-disciplinary tools - perceiving, patterning, abstracting, embodied thinking, modeling, playing, synthesis
Navigating leadership tensions
- multilemma (multiple dilemmas)
- Leadership is not just about solving problems
- Leadership is about resolving dilemmas
- Facebook learnings - Done is better than perfect, code wins the argument, the journey is 1% finished, move fast and break things, the journey is always 1% finished
- If you can’t imagine anyone linking to what you are about to write, don’t write it.
- EXPLORE . CREATE . SHARE
- e.g., the proposed Ed Tech PD model fits into this!!!
Key Takeaways
- Teachers need to be involved in their own Learning Development
Using TPACK frame our (ETT) jobs. - Use, Integrate, Innovate as a model to assess lessons or the SAMR
- TPACK = Planning and tech integration model. All lessons should be in the center or don't use it. In the center = meaningful
- SAMR = evaluative on how your using technology. Each lesson can be at any level, as long as it's purposeful.
- What does it mean to be a good teacher today?
- TPACK can be distributed across teachers
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