Interactive Classroom Explorer Stranmillis March 2006 Colin Harrison Daniel Pead Mary Bailey [email protected]

Interactive Classroom Explorer

Stranmillis

March 2006

Colin Harrison

Daniel Pead

Mary Bailey

[email protected]

Introduction: representation, teacher learning and video

• ‘Almost all forms of learning involve information that is represented in different forms’

(van Someren et al, 1998).

Digital video for teachers: what problems can it solve?


Teachers Network.com:

• … a shortage of teachers nationwide, • educators are entering school this fall with little or no hands-on classroom experience. • Overcrowded classes, • pressure to “teach to tests,” • a more diversified student population • added stress on this new crop of teachers….



• Guidance in the form of professional development, via the Internet, is now available, • an archive of wisdom and best practices •from some of the greatest teachers on the front lines• a series of interactive streaming videos, which offers practical instruction for the novice teacher, and serves as a form of “digital mentoring.”



• But

good resources good professional development

Vertical authority structure:Content Provider

Classroom Video

Printed support material

Users

ITT StudentsIn-service Teachers

Tutors

Improved teaching Higher standards

CD /VCR paper

outcomes

Traditional video for CPD

Interactive Classroom Explorer (ICE)

Discussion Forum Discussion Forum

Content Provider

Classroom Video

Transcript/Timeline

Assignment/

Introduction

ICE users

Discussion Forum

Comments

Video selections

ITT Students

In-service Teachers

Tutors

CD or Internet

New content

Interactive Classroom Explorer (ICE)- paint 2003

Interactive Classroom Explorer (ICE)- screenshot

Interactive Classroom Explorer (ICE) provides these….

Video with control buttons



Scrolling transcript




Search window




Search window ICE can hold and distribute pdf,

video, Word files here




Search window

Online/OfflineBulletin Board

ICE can hold and distribute pdf, video, Word files here




Search window


Teacher response




Buttons for creating ‘video

quotations’


Search window


Teacher response




Buttons for creating ‘video

quotations’


Search window


Teacher response

Teacher reply,

including ‘video

quotation’ICE can hold and distribute pdf, video, Word files here


The ICE user is encouraged not only to consider the merits of the exemplar video (video proposition ‘P’)

-But also to actively consider its opposite, ie to challenge the authority status of the exemplar video (video proposition ‘not-P’)

-And the capability of uploading new material, to be considered alongside that produced by those in authority, adds a whole new dimension (video proposition ‘or possibly Q’)


Our current hypothesis: learning as association - A tentative propositional calculus based on a set of six relational links between representations:

Boolean [P + Q, P ν Q, P + ¬ Q] ‘P plus Q’Identity [P = Q, P ≠ Q] ‘P is the same as Q’Existential [ P] ‘P is real; this is how it is]Modal [ Δ P, ¬ Δ Q] ‘P is necessary, Q isn’t’Causality [P Q] ‘If P then Q’Truth value (P or <P r Q>) [true or false]

So what did ICE deliver?

Using ICE over the Internet

• ICE did prompt critical reflection on video, though not all teachers were able to upload video quotations

• It was possible to identify P, not-P and perhaps Q statements in the postings

• Teachers found it easier to post their own responses than to comment on those of others

• It’s incredibly difficult to explain how ICE works and what it does via the software only….

Looking ahead….

Key issues for the future:

- Work on scaling up for wider populations- Gain deeper insights into teachers’ internalised representations - Explore teachers’ discourse- Work with a wider range of research partners- Make the software available as freeware

Thanks to:- Gatsby for funding ICE

- Daniel Pead and Mary Sheard

- And the team at Labyrinth Software

Contact: [email protected]

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Interactive Classroom Explorer Stranmillis March 2006 Colin Harrison Daniel Pead Mary Bailey [email protected]