The Evolution of Teacher Education in a Digital Learning Era: Transforming Knowledge in the Global Network
Lisa Dawley, Boise State University
- The Unavoidable Evolution in Teacher Education
- Travels around the world, others saying that American students are creative; yet, still calls for reform, especially in teacher education, keep happening here in US
- New US EdTech plan, too
- Growth in Online Education
- Over 1 million K-12 kids learn online; 47% increase in the past two years
- Fall 2007, 20% of college student were enrolled in an online course
- 45 states offer some kind of state supplemental program online, as well as fully online K-12 programs offered as charter schools
- Idaho K12 virtual schools — 14,000 students enrolled last year
- K12 Online Options
- Moving along a continuum from traditional integrated tech classroom to hybrid course to online tech enhanced schools to full-time virtual schooling
- Other hybrids exist, including options that are in brick and mortar schools and homeschools
- iNACOL – The International Association for K-12 Online Learning
- Effects of online learning report
- The effectiveness of online learning is tied to learning time, curriculum, pedagogy, and opportunities for collaboration
- Gives learners control of their interactions with media… move, use, remix, edit, build, chance, click, interact, change…
- Online learning can be enhanced by prompting learner reflection
- What doesn’t impact learning
- Incorporating online quizzes
- Media combinations don’t matter, but control over them does
- Henry Jenkins and participatory culture: MIT TV clip
- Pedagogical Framework from Dawley: Social Network Knowledge Construction
- Identify
- Lurk
- Contribute
- Create
- Lead
- How do we design programs to rethink teacher education?
- At Boise State, it is only graduate degrees and certificates
- Fully online for past seven years; students throughout the world
- Moved from Blackboard to Moodle, integrating web 2.0 tools into portal
- Integration of videos from YouTube, TeacherTube, WatchKnow
- Avatar creation through Voki and SitePals
- Graphic blogs through Glogster
- 3D learning games such as Conspiracy Code
- Open source and free content
- iTunesU
- 3D virtual worlds: Opensource metaverse, croquet
- Moodle learning management systen
- Mobile learning
- Educational apps
- Texting
- LMS access
- Multimedia
- GPS-based curriculum
- In three years, mobile devices will become the main interface used to browse the internet
- Exergaming
- State-wide online tournaments for gaming
- Innovative courses, participatory networks
- Using WordPress and LinkedIn for portfolios — students own and keep their content
- EDTECH Island in Second Life
- Cool Teacher Podcast
- 3D GameLab for Teen Leaders
- Partnerships with local, state, national, and international agents
- Help lead the teacher education revolution
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