elaine wilson. very early adopters! knowledge technology pedagogy teachers are expert professionals
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Elaine Wilson
Very early adopters!
Knowledge
TechnologyPedagogy
Teachers are expert professionals
KnowledgeWhat do you teach?To enable students to access Codified knowledge about the natural world
Why do you teach this?
and also to help students to understand this knowledge and be able to think like a scientist. Solve problems, know what good and bad data are, work in teams and communicate ideas.
Pedagogy
Knowing how to teach
Effective teaching and learning: evidence informed principles
Equips the learner for life
Increases Knowledge
Builds on prior learning and experience
Teacher scaffolds learning
Assessment of and for learning
Active learner engagement
Is a social and individual process
Informal learning
Depends on teacher learning
Technology
Digital Technology
Broadcast TVDigital TVInternet / WWWMobile telephones Handheld devicesPC’s /Laptops
Knowledge
PCK
Pedagogy
PCK= Pedagogic Content Knowledge
Knowledge of subject matter
Knowledge of students’ understanding
Knowledge of possible alternate conceptions about abstract ideas
Knowledge of curricula
Knowledge of scientific language
Knowledge
Technology
Using technology to access knowledge
For example: searching online
Also: Knowledge which is accessed on line can be linear but is also in hypertext format
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http://darwin-online.org.uk/
Do we teach our students how to make judgements about the validity of the information they are accessing on line and in the media?
http://www.martinlutherking.org
TechnologyPedagogy
Teaching students and teachers how to use ICT
Knowledge
TechnologyPedagogy
Using technology to support science teaching
http://phet.colorado.edu/index.php
Barriers to extended use of ICT in schools
Lack of timeLack of teacher confidence Lack of trainingLimited access to resources
Web 2.0 and ubiquity of the Internet
but now also
PC’s and Office software Handheld devices
Becta, 2008
Mobile – cell phone users
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Students from the Royal Veterinary College in Tanzania
1. Collecting physical exam data in the field using Google’s Open Data Kit
2. Recording sampling locations using Twidroid
3. Communicating with team members and RVC experts via Twitter, email, and Google Chat
4. Updating team blog using blogger
• 5. Quick Upload of data to Excel via XML
• 6. Paperless no need for printers etc • 7. Able to communicate with whole team
at once via Twitter• 8. Able to receive input from world
experts remotely• 9. Could keep in contact with family,
fellow students, and donors while in field
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WEB 2.0
Informal collaborative learning and free resources
Becta, 2008
The basic [idea] of the Web is that [of] an information space through which people can communicate, but communicate in a special way: communicate by sharing their knowledge in a pool.The idea was not just that it should be a bigbrowsing medium. The idea was that everybodywould be putting their ideas in, as well as takingthem out.—Tim Berners-Lee
Web 1.0 Web 2.0
Personal websites Blogging
Britannica online Wikipedia
Domain name speculation Search engine optimization
Publishing Participation
Content management systems Wikis
Directories (taxonomy) Tagging (‘folksonomy’)
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/customsearch/index.html
https://my.pbworks.com/
https://camtools.cam.ac.uk/
A teacher who could be replaced by a machine should be!
Arthur C Clarke
What are teachers for in the Information Society?
Cognitive
Affective
Learning
Social
But ought we to give up outmoded practices?
Technology does not change practice. Teachers change practice as their knowledge, understanding, skills, beliefs and goals change.
Digital Literacy?
Digital literacy is the ability to locate, organize, understand, evaluate, and create information using digital technology.
Becoming digitally literate requires that the learner: knows how to use digital tools is critical of how and when to use them
is aware of the risks of working online
Is prepared to share ideas.
Old pedagogy New pedagogy
Know as much as there is in the book and as much as the teacher says
Decide on what to know and what to store
Teacher passes on knowledge to the student
Teacher helps students access, select, evaluate, organise and store information
Students write on paper for the teacher to read
Students write to disk or publish on the web
Neat handwritten reports Professional looking printed documents
Texts are set Texts are editable
Students have limited choice of sources Students’ personal choices are expected
Students hide papers from each other and only allow teacher to read the paper
Students exchange tips about editing and revising their work
http://www.wordle.net/create
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