QSITE in 2009 will continue to facilitate Professional Development (PD) opportunities for its members as it has always done. As well as “face-to-face” PD sessions run in the various chapters, QSITE this year would like to attempt to “walk-the-walk” so to speak and experiment with some virtual delivery. We have some tools we would like to try.

To facilitate the program this year we would like to formally survey members.  We would like to know  what members want in terms of PD for themselves and their schools, but also what they personally might be prepared to offer back to members. I would ask chapter members who may have already indicated to their respective chapter PD coordinators their intention to offer sessions this year to duplicate this intention through the survey. The results will also inform us for the QSITE conference later in the year.

The only required fields are name, email & chapter. All other fields are optional.

Thanks to everyone for your assistance. A special thanks in advance goes out to those who intend to offer their experiences and/or their expertise back to the community.

Thank you for helping QSITE to engage, connect, share & lead.

National Technology Leadership Summit: Connecting TPACK and NETS via Research, Policy, and Practice

The TPACK Framework

To help us understand how technology fits within good teaching.

Relating TPACK to the NETS*T

and NET*S - these are what can be the desrciption in the centre.

http://punya.edu.msu.edu/research/tpck

Handbook of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) for educators 

Putting the theory into practice 

At a summit, which brought together representated different professional associations, they looked at linking digital video with pedagogical goalds in different content areas.  

The example shared in the NECC session was with the egg in the bottle experiment - using digital video and graphing as the technology. 

TPACK and Legislation

This framework implies that the regime of testing and structured teaching of content is not an effective provision of learning. Policy needs to expand the notion of what it is important to measure. Associations have different perspectives on issues and it is difficult to get a concise voice to government in order to influence and create policy - they will respond to educational groups unless we have the same vision (and consistent jargon). It is also important to understand how we differ.

I wonder how much of this is true also in an Australian context? I think we are a bit luckier in terms of the connections that we already have between professional associations (eg. through JCQTA) but we could always do more. Also the fact that our government is not as reliatant on national testing as the main measurement of learning (well not YET).

Professional Associations and TPACK

There was an interesting discussion about how to embed the idea of TPACK across different content areas through publications and conferences of content (aka discpline) professional associations. Perhaps there is something that QSITE can take from this with regards to how we collaborate with other professional associations to challenge practice and inspire meaningful ICT infused learning.

Some Reflections

Comparing this session with the last one - I think that while a useful way of thinking about the interactions of pedagogy, technology and content knowledge it's perhaps not as useful as the UBD (Understanding by Design) processes from a planning point of view. The differeniating between the elements of technology, pedagogy and content may mean it is more likely for these areas to be thought of in a separate rather than an embedded way. Although... maybe these element are part of what is considered after already building the goals, understandings and essential questions.