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Why should early course trainees bother with tech?
•Creativity
•Critical thinking
•Reflection
•Teacher Talk
•Student talk and participation
•Model good digital
behaviours
•Continuous Professional
Development
• To design new or adapt existing materials
• to avoid replicating PPP or other tenets without
thinking
• To look back (on lessons taught) and forward (on
future lessons)
• To reduce unnecessary teacher talk
• To maximise student talk and participation
• Model good digital behaviours
• To show things that the trainees can make use of
in their own classes
• to connect and learn with and from other
teachers
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A pledge for leaders of tomorrow-trainers included
• Fostering and Leading a Culture of Digital Learning Within Our
Schools.
• Helping Students and Families Transition to High-speed
Connectivity, blended learning & eventually, digital content.
• Empowering Educators through Professional Learning
Opportunities.
• Universal Access for All Students to Quality Content.
• Providing Access to Quality Digital Content.
• Offering Digital Tools to Help Students and Families.
• Mentoring colleagues and teachers and helping them
transition to Digital Learning.
Courageous
Leadership
Empowered
Teachers
Inspiring
spaces
Community
Infrastructure
Hardware-
software
Student
autonomy
The future in education depends on courageous leadership
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What kind of trainees are we talking about?
•Higher education graduates …
•of recent years
•of long ago
•Candidates with …
•little experience of basic tools
•no experience at all beyond emails and occasional text
documents
•confidence and tech savvy
•fear in their hearts which sinks at the challenge of yet
another tech tool
Since this is the mix, it may be possible for some to
mentor others – but when is the question
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A little and often
http://marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org/2011
/11/21/a-little-often-integrating-technology-on-
teacher-development-courses
(my blog post written in 2011)
This is what I wrote in 2011 – AND believed that it was the best solution
for all trainees
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•Fast internet – available everywhere?
•A laptop or tablet for every trainee?
•Mobile skills of trainers and trainees?
•Mindsets of trainers and trainees that motivate to use
educational technology tools?
•Leadership which supports digital skills in trainers and
trainees
Different solutions may apply to different
contexts
Depending on whether they have…
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Then I asked them to vote on these options - which one do they think
would have helped them most?
Different needs and wants
Input sessions on ed tech tools
On day one or two of their course
In week two or three
No input session at all
Introduction before the course
I asked some of our current CELTA trainees to share their thoughts
And a whopping 100% when I suggested combining 4 and 1 – this is what
we plan to do now
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Before a course begins
• Find out their level of comfort with different tools with a questionnaire
• Use wiki or other LMS to give access their preparation materials and self-access
tasks
• Use a social media platform to get them to meet and greet each other before
the course
• Give them access to You Tube tutorials on how to use some standard digital tools
useful to teachers
• Make some screencasts for them on some of the early use areas, e.g. how to use
their wiki
• Give them links to good online tutorials for Word and Powerpoint
• Test them by asking them to make a small presentation about themselves using
one of these tools
Some ideas
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Before a course begins
•Show a checklist of some of the digital skills we need to have even
on week one
•Make the checklist graded
• - from top priority down or
• - from basic to advanced
•Include some simple tutorials or screencasts
•Link to where people can find training prior to the course
• - You tube
• - a short course
• - an EVO?
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Make the checklist graded some examplesElementary or Basic Skillset list e.g.
E.g. using Microsoft Office
- Creating a table / fixing column width
- Inserting images – fixing size – editing image
- Text-chatting on a chat forum or facebook group
Searching for materials in resource website
Searching for materials online
Intermediate skillset e.g.
- Editing images
- Adding text or captions to images
Advanced Digital skills e.g.
- Animating a dialogue with some animation tool e.g. Plotagon or
Nawmal
- Creating your own Personal Learning Network on Facebook,
LinkedIn or Twitter
- Taking part in an online debate using tricider
- Taking part in a Twitter Chat such as #ELTchat