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Connected Thinking for Connected Classrooms

Models of Professional Development

Jim DevinePresident, IADT, Ireland



“The OECD …strongly pleads for a re-framing of the initial un-met expectations of the potential of technology in education, while recognisingthat technology has contributed to important contextual changes in education”

Report of the ICT Cluster





Any model must be prepared for disruptive change

What’s new and disruptive today may well be commonplace tomorrow

Context

Policy

Actions

Delivery

Review

Evidence-base



Governments and Policy Makers

Students

Parents

Schools:Leaders, Teachers

Initial and in-careerTeacher Training: Communities:

Informal Learning

The Digital World: A Complex Ecosystem



It has always been about innovation, but we got sidetracked for a whilein the technology and the language of ICT

Innovation Personality Traits (Wolfe) – remembering how and why we do it

Curiosity

Risk Taking

Critical Thinking

Resilience

Self-control

Interpersonal Skills

Collaborative Skills

Dealing with Ambiguity

Understanding the Risk Appetite of the School/Organisation



Towards a goal of Digital Fluency:

Digital Competence for Life and for Work

Technology and Professional,job-specific eSkills

‘Digital’ is all-pervasive



Your vantage point determines what you can see(and….what you cannot see!)

Improve

TransformRe-invent

Supplement

Formal Informal

Sustain

Disrupt

(Charles Ledbetter)





Social and Emotional Conditions of Learningin the Connected Digital World

Re-interpreting Maslow for The connected world



Policy Vectors

Infrastructure and Investment Decision-making

Defining DigitalCompetences

EmbeddingDigital Competences In the CurriculumFutures and

Experimentation Teacher Initial Education

Teacher CPD

Leadership

Inclusion

Safety

Content Strategy

Home/School

Embedding Media Literacy

Charter

Build on Existing Initiatives











Delivery

Thematic approach to the ‘Policy Vectors’

Agile and responsive to the rapid changes that the evidence base brings to our attention

CPD is not just for teachers

Embed concepts and tools of ‘Innovation’ and ‘Risk Management’ in all leadership CPD

Achieve scale and accreditation for CPD and introduce thematic modules within initial teacher training programmes

Acquire digital media expertise through strategic partnerships

Provide CPD on a cascaded basis: develop a core of expert trainers drawn from among the body of teachers/trainers and invest frequently in programmesto keep this group at the cutting edge

Evaluate everything. Contribute to and develop a keen awareness of the evidence base



We are now very well-informed about ‘schools’ and we are beginning to understand the home-school nexus

New Millennium Learners

Longitudinal engagement of the ICT Cluster and their recent report

Policy Briefs and Studies undertaken by IPTS

Mature understanding of the Media Literacy and Digital Literacy Agendaand an emerging goal of Digital Fluency

Studies and repositories of ‘good practice’ e.g., www.kslll.net

Well-developed platforms and portals of particular relevance to youngpersons, e.g., Schools e-Twinning, e-Portfolio, EuropPASS

But all of this is still a patchwork that needs to be drawn together more effectively



And to Conclude

There is a substantial and growing evidence base in relation to onlinebehaviours in general and to learning behaviours in particular

What has been learned to date in respect of schools ‘ICT’ programmessuggests that it is time to re-frame expectations

We are well-placed to develop policy guidelines and it is timely to do so now

Alignment of purpose and of available resources from top to bottom has to be the goal – policy should lead to credible, cohesive actions

To embed an innovation culture, we must acknowledge and manage risk

Embrace a goal of universal digital fluency

We must be alert to questions of inclusion – the first and now the seconddigital divide

Documents

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