QTPICT project at Adelaide High School

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QTP-ICT project at Adelaide High School

• Sue Spence, 2002

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Our Objectives

• To embed ICTs in classroom programmes
• Link theory to practice
• Collaboratively develop ICT skills and share
  experiences
• Collaboratively develop and document units of work

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Paradigm shifts
Spender, Dr Dale. Embracing e-Learning in
Australian Schools. Commonwealth Bank, 2002 p.37
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Teacher role

• As dispenser of knowledge
• Transmits information
• Communicates with individuals
• Directs student actions
• Explains conceptual relationships
• Teacher's knowledge is static
• Directed use of textbook, etc.

• As coach and facilitator
• Communicates with groups
• Helps students process information
• Coaches student actions
• Facilitates student thinking
• Models the learning process
• Flexible use of materials

Traditional-Reform Pedagogy Continuum
http//www.enc.org/topics/inquiry/context/documen
t.shtm?inputFOC-000708-index
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Student Role

• As passive receiver
• Records teacher's information
• Memorizes information
• Follows teacher directions
• Defers to teacher as authority

• As self-directed learner
• Processes information
• Interprets, explains, hypothesizes
• Designs own activities
• Shares authority for answers

Traditional-Reform Pedagogy Continuum
http//www.enc.org/topics/inquiry/context/documen
t.shtm?inputFOC-000708-index
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Student Work

• Teacher-prescribed activities
• Emphasizes worksheets
• All students complete same tasks
• Teacher directs tasks
• Absence of items in New Orientation

• Student-directed learning
• Directs own learning
• Tasks vary among students
• Designs and directs own tasks
• Emphasizes reasoning, reading and writing for
  meaning, solving problems, building from existing
  cognitive structures, and explaining complex
  problems

Traditional-Reform Pedagogy Continuum
http//www.enc.org/topics/inquiry/context/documen
t.shtm?inputFOC-000708-index
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ICT as a tool.

•   Before you become too entranced with gorgeous
  gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me
  remind you that information is not knowledge,
  knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not
  foresight. Each grows out of the other and we
  need them all.----- Arthur C. Clarke

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What do students need to learn and how can ICT
promote those learning goals?

• Emphasis should be on meaningful, engaged
  learning with technology
• students are actively involved
• students are explorers producers
• teachers are facilitators guides
• collaborative learning
• develop critical thinking skills
• problem solving
• authentic tasks
• Problem-Based Learning http//www.cotf.edu/ete/tea
  cher/teacherout.html

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It is better to know some of the questions than
all of the answers.----- James Thurber A
Questioning toolkithttp//questioning.org/Q7/tool
kit.html