Professional Development in the Internet2 Age

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Professional Development in the Internet2 Age

• Kim Carter
• kcarter_at_mrsd.org

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Professional Development

• The mission of professional development is to
  prepare and support educators to help all
  students achieve to high standards of learning
  and development.Building Bridges,
  www.ed.gov/G2K/bridge.html

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Internet2

• Led by 200 U.S. universities working in
  partnership with industry and government,
  Internet2 is developing and deploying advanced
  applications and technologies, accelerating the
  creation of tomorrows Internet.
• www.internet2.edu/html/about.html

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Communities of Practice

• Bond by exposure to common problems
• Common practices and language
• Common sense of purpose
• Groups that learn
• Members evolve more creative practice
• From water coolers to commitment

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Educause

• The mission of EDUCAUSE is to advance higher
  education by promoting the intelligent use of
  information technology.
• www.educause.edu

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Professional Learning Community

• Collective focus on student learning
• Reflective dialogue
• Making practice public
• Collaboration
• Shared norms and values
• Kruse, Seashore, Louis, and Bryk Building
  Professional Community in Schools

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Tapped In

• A multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) developed
  for educators professional development.
• Develop an online identity, use text to
  communicate affective positions, manage tools
  such as office, whiteboard, tape recorders to
  collaboratively organize the flow of dialogue and
  communication of information.
• www.tappedin.org (Room 1409)

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Distributed Learning

• Educational experiences that combine the use of
  face-to-face (F2F) teaching with synchronous and
  asynchronous mediated interaction. (Dede, Brown
  LBahy, Whitehouse, 2002)

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T502 Learning Media That Bridge Distance and
Time

• Provide students with learning experiences via
  seven different interactive media, illustrating
  appropriate tasks and exemplary instructional
  design in each
• Help students develop an understanding of how
  each of these media shapes the cognitive,
  affective, and social dimensions of their own
  learning and the learning of others.
• www.gse.harvard.edu/dedech/502/

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T502 Learning Media That Bridge Distance and Time

• Groove, TI, threaded discussions, Active Worlds -
  several weeks
• Videoconferencing
• F2F -final 2 sessions

• iCommons
• F2F - week 1,2
• Tapped In (TI) - wk 3
• Small groups meet in virtual conferences
• F2F - Handheld wireless - week 4,5 Groove - week 6

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Class Rankings of Media

• To maximize your learning in the course, which
  media would be most efficient and effective,
  which least? Focus primarily on how each medium
  shapes the quality of information and interaction
  you receive and contribute.

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MC2 Virtual Community
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Internet2 K20 Initiative

• Exploring the use of high-speed Internet
  connections and digital video as important tools
  for fostering teacher growth and development, for
  bringing new rich resources to the classroom, and
  for increasing student achievement.
• www.internet2.edu

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Hands-On Universe Project (HOU)

• Enables students to acquire and use professional
  grade astronomy images from a growing network of
  global telescopes.
• Teacher cadre of 25 master teachers who regularly
  hold moderated online teacher training courses
  over the Internet - in process of incorporating
  Internet video for teacher professional
  development activities.
• Over 500 schools in the U.S. and 500 schools in
  Europe and other countries.
• hou.lbl.gov

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Communities of Practice/Professional Learning
Communities

• Collective focus on student learning
• Reflective dialogue
• Making practice public
• Collaboration
• Shared norms and values

• Bond by exposure to common problems
• Common practices and language
• Common sense of purpose
• Groups that learn
• Members evolve more creative practice
• From water coolers to commitment