NAEYC 2013: Real Professional Development Online

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It’s real PD and it’s online

Essential elements of effective, engaging and empowering

online professional development

NAEYC 2013

Chip Donohue, PhD Dean of Distance Learning & Con?nuing Educa?on Director, TEC Center Senior Fellow, Fred Rogers Center

Amanda Armstrong, MS Program Coordinator, TEC Center

Technology issues for teacher educators and professional development providers

1.  Blurring the lines between technology tools for personal and professional use

2.  Combining the many flavors of learning into a mashup

3.  Blending technology trends and emerging tools with best prac?ces in teacher educa?on/professional development

4.  Designing, developing and delivering effec?ve, engaging and empowering blended and online courses, professional development and training in a connected world

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The young and the digital

Born digital…born analog…born BPC ECE’s narrow bandwidth of experience…

•  Born in another ?me

•  Digital tourists teaching digital locals

•  Confron?ng our technology shortcomings

•  Educa?ng teacher educators, professional development providers, teachers, parents

•  Using technology to learn how to use technology…for teaching, learning and living

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Digital obstacles for PD in ECE Digital resistance

Digital obstacles for PD in ECE Teaching analog educators digital tricks

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Digital obstacles for PD in ECE Adding tech isn’t enough

Digital obstacles for PD in ECE Drowning in digital informa@on

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Digital opportuni?es for PD in ECE Personal Tools = Professional Tools

•  Brainstorm a list of technology tools you use everyday

•  Make a list of the daily tasks you accomplish with your technology tools

•  What technology tools would you refuse to let me take away or turn off for a day?

Personal tools •  Cellphone/Smartphone

•  Tablet and apps

•  Laptop

•  E-‐reader

•  Digital Camera/Camcorder

•  iPod, iTunes / MP3 player

•  GPS

•  Voice recogni?on / Siri

•  WiFi

•  Social media

•  Streaming media

•  YouTube

•  Blogs and News Aggregators

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Personal tools for living & learning •  Check email

•  Send a text

•  Make a phone call

•  Check the weather

•  Update your calendar

•  Keep up with news

•  Check the sports scores

•  Get direc?ons

•  Buy ?ckets or a product

•  Book a restaurant or trip

•  Search for informa?on

•  Par?cipate in social media

•  Listen to music/podcast

•  Watch a video

•  Take a photo/video

•  Read a book or magazine

All contribute to digital literacy

…Computers can be useful machines, especially when they help people communicate in caring ways with each other…

Dear Mister Rogers, Does It Ever Rain in Your Neighborhood?

A neighborly reminder…

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Blending technology trends with best prac?ces in EC

teacher educa?on and professional development

The many flavors of learning •  Lifelong and lifewide •  Formal / informal

•  Blended / flipped •  Mobile

•  Distributed •  Social •  Connected

A 21st century learning mashup

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Lifelong & lifewide learning ecology •  Learn with anyone, any@me, anywhere, on any device

•  Blend formal and informal learning

•  Mobile access to on demand and just-‐in-‐?me learning

•  Open informa?on and free educa?on

•  Social learning and professional learning communi?es

•  Connect personal and professional •  Are you leaning back or leaning in? “…now we can watch a newspaper, listen

to a magazine, see a phone call…”

Formal & informal learning •  Tools for learning everywhere-‐all-‐the-‐?me

•  Consumer…Adopter…Adapter…Creator

•  Home and school

•  Out-‐of-‐school ?me

•  Libraries, museums, nature centers, zoos

•  Family media ecology

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Blended learning •  Face-‐to-‐face and online •  Classroom, online and mobile learning

•  Synchronous and asynchronous •  Personal and professional •  Formal and informal

Flipped classroom •  The Kahn Academy

•  The flipped classroom inverts tradi?onal teaching methods, delivering instruc?on online outside of class and moving “homework” into the classroom

•  Educa?onal technology and learning ac?vi?es both influence the learning environment

•  Pedagogical shig – Online learning already flipped the sage on the stage to the guide on the side

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Mobile learning / BYOD •  Any?me, anywhere, with anyone on any device

•  Mobile learners with portable devices

•  Learning when the learner is not at a fixed, predetermined loca?on

•  Learning when the learner uses mobile tech to access informa?on and interact with others

•  BYOD – Bring your own device to work, to school

Distributed learning Open learning / content

•  iTunesU

•  MIT, Harvard, Stanford

•  Kahn Academy

•  TED

•  You Tube EDU

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Massive Open Online Course • Course par?cipants are worldwide • 100s to 1000s to 100,000s simultaneously

• Free or modest fee if working toward cer?fica?on/accredita?on

• Course content is not found in one place – the web is the “textbook”

Massive Open Online Course • No specific requirements but expected to stay up to date

• Par?cipants and instructors aggregate, reminx and repurpose the content during the course

• Hubs of interac?on include classroom, blogs, porkolios, social media and networks, discussions, YouTube…

We need LOOCs not MOOCs

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Social learning •  Social Media / Networks •  Par?cipatory culture •  Peer-‐to-‐peer •  User-‐contributed content •  User ra?ngs, rankings and reviews •  Crowd sourcing •  Affinity groups / Communi?es of interest

Social media for learning •  Adds speed to E-‐Learning •  Distance doesn’t maner

•  Enables collabora?on •  Thrives on communica?on

•  Encourages peer-‐to-‐peer •  Connects personal/professional

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Connected learning Links and leverages experiences, interests, communi?es, and contexts in which learners par?cipate as poten?al learning opportuni?es.

•  New technology tools to connect people to ideas and people with people – a highly connected learning ecosystem

•  Learning together across genera?ons, cultures, communi?es, contexts

•  Mash up formal and informal to develop unique learning pathways

•  Integra?on and cura?on to find answers

•  Bridge home, school and “third spaces”

A connec@vist approach for construc@vists

Moving Erikson Online Homegrown best prac?ces

and 5 keywords for effec?ve, engaging and

empowering online teaching and learning

Early Childhood Teacher Educa?on and Professional Development

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Our 5 keywords for effec?ve, engaging and empowering online learning

•  Blending high tech with high touch •  Suppor?ng and engaging new online learners •  Encouraging rela?onships •  Building community

•  Promo?ng a “sense of belonging”

•  Suppor?ng and developing online aculty •  Establishing the instructor’s voice and presence

Moving Erikson Online

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•  Fearlessly authen?c

•  Conspicuously present

•  Inten?onal

•  Reflec?ve

•  Balanced

•  In rhythm

•  Teach anyone, any?me, anywhere on any device

Effec?ve online teachers are…

•  EriksonOnline community of prac?ce

•  Blending asynchronous and synchronous •  Video and audio

–  Course Welcome and Module Intros

–  Course & Assignment Expecta?ons

–  Demonstra?ons of concepts

–  Animated graphics

Homegrown Best Prac?ces

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Homegrown Best Prac?ces •  Video & Audio

–  Classroom capture

–  Reading a children’s book

–  Faculty team interviews/presenta?ons

–  Narrated presenta?ons

Voice Presence Story

Rhythm Community

It’s Erikson, and it’s online

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Effec@ve, engaging and empowering online professional

development

•  Knowledge of adult learning and EC educators as adult learners

•  Preference for face-‐to-‐face/community •  Online teaching and learning strategies •  Instructor presence – Guide on the Side •  Chunking content, modules, mul?media •  On-‐site, blended, webinars, fully online •  Blending synchronous and asynchronous tools

What have we baked into our recipe?

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Online Professional Development

Online Professional Development

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A case study: Teaching with technology Amanda Armstrong

A case study: Teaching with technology •  Early childhood childhood specialist program

– Administrators and teachers

•  Early literacy and language development

•  Blended learning –  In person seminars

– Online modules

– Webinar

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Online Module •  Par?cipant survey •  NAEYC/Fred Rogers Center Joint Posi?on Statement

–  Build connec?on to teaching prac?ce –  Develop framework for digital choices

•  Video, audio, and interac?vity •  Resource integra?on •  Learn how to use tech by using tech •  Building a community of prac?ce

Teaching with technology module

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Teaching with technology webinar

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Case Study Conclusion •  Team approach •  Use different types of technology in meaningful contexts

•  Content: –  Connects research, theory, prac?ce, and par?cipant input

•  Engagement: –  Share stories, ideas, resources, and problem solving strategies

Tech Professional Development Magic •  Show don’t tell

•  Have each classroom learn a different applica?on

•  Host a teacher tech playground / tech play group

•  Create tech field trips

•  Have a teacher tech show and tell at the end of every staff mee?ng

•  Develop program best prac?ces with tech

•  Create a teaching with tech learning community

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Big Ideas for Online PD 1.  Preach what you prac?ce

2. Model lifelong/lifewide learning

3.  Pull instead of push

4.  Use tech to learn how to use tech

5.  Be a designer of learning

6.  Tech manager, mediator, mentor

7.  Tech leadership

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