(D)evaluating Pedagogic Interactivity: The Case of ELSE

Ethical and Legal Studies in Education (ELSE)

Pedagogic Interactivity

To “track” or not to “track”

Playfulness

Testing: A Categorical Imperative

The players in the story:

“Pedagogic interactivity”:Interactivity as the enactment of pedagogical design

Computers for Lunch

Simply a matter of clicking… or not

Non-authenticated login enabling tracking…

…or the ability to just “practice”

Bite-sized chunks

“Handy links” to primary documents

“Sidebar” content

Theme 4: School boards

School boards employ teachers. As an employer school boards also have expectations for teacher's professionalism and ethics. In addition to obligations under their employment contract teachers have professional legal duties under the Education Act that they must comply with in the course of their employment. We took these up in the first module on the duties of teachers. Most importantly teachers are expected to teach, supervise, and demonstrate respect towards students and comply with all their duties outline in s. 264 and s. 20 of the Education Act and Regulations.

The general rule is that a teacher must be a good ‘role model’ and conduct themselves in loco parentis towards the students.

But what constitutes appropriate conduct for teachers? Should your employer be able to dictate how you conduct yourself in your private life? Is conduct outside the classroom also reviewable. This is controversial and contested but currently the law says 'yes' it is.

The “Role model principle” governs teacher's behavior inside and outside the classroom. There is a debate as to what this means in terms of conduct outside classroom. In general any immoral or unprofessional behaviour that is detrimental to the student’s learning environment violates the role model principle. But there must be a causal link between behavior outside classroom and classroom performance (i.e. the behaviour must undermine the teacher’s fitness, competence, or credibility to teach etc )

Original content: dense and prescriptive

Stripped down, malleable content…

Lesson#4: School boards Page 1

As employers, school boards also have guidelines for teachers’ professional and ethical behaviour. School boards’ general rule is that teachers must conduct themselves in loco parentis – as reasonably careful and prudent parents - towards students.

Page 2Currently, the law holds that teachers must act as ‘role models’ outside of the classroom, in their private lives, as well as in the classroom – although there is much debate as to what this means.

If teachers are to be reprimanded for immoral or unprofessional conduct outside the classroom, there must be a causal link between this conduct and any detrimental effect on their fitness, competency, or credibility inside the classroom.

Credits page - a “playful” take on legalese

Lego scenarios…

Short “quizlets” -

- the only form of evaluation within the site

Final Quizzes: Shifting educational values…

Digitally re-mediated “open book” testing

E-mail exchanges with course instructors:

The final quiz becomes all that “counts”

Design Tactics…

Attention to discourse

Do not attempt to cover everything

Problematization of our own content to highlight complexity

Contextualized narrative elements

Non-linearity

Jennifer Jenson, York University

Nicholas Taylor, York University

http://www.ysmiste.ca/else