AACE Global Learn 2011
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This document discusses an approach to teacher education that focuses on developing 21st century skills through social media, authentic learning experiences, and communities of practice. It describes incorporating inquiry-based learning, authentic learning principles, and social media like Second Life into a teacher training program. The goals are to help teachers acquire skills like critical thinking, collaboration, and adaptability, and to foster a professional identity aligned with the demands of a knowledge society. Key aspects of the approach include providing authentic contexts for learning, collaborative knowledge construction through team projects, and ongoing dialogic assessment rather than exams.
AACE Global Learn 2011
- 1. Educating Teachers for the Knowledge Society Social Media, Authentic Learning & Communities of Practice Hanna Teräs & Marjatta Myllylä Tampere University of Applied Sciences / School of Vocational Teacher Education Finland Image: andy.wolf Thursday, March 31, 2011
- 2. What is this presentation about? • Why is a new approach to teacher education needed? • What are 21st century skills and how to teach them? • What is our teacher training program like? • How have we combined inquiry-based learning, authentic learning principles and social media? • What have we achieved with it? Image: maxroucool Thursday, March 31, 2011
- 3. The time of individual performances is over. Thursday, March 31, 2011
- 4. We live in a global, networked knowledge society. Thursday, March 31, 2011
- 5. 21st Century Skills what are professionals of today made of? • Core competencies of the knowledge society expert, independent of subject matter • Numerous definitions, e.g Trilling & Fadel (2009): 21st Century Skills - Learning for Life in Our Times Image: Seier & Seier Thursday, March 31, 2011
- 6. Learning and innovation skills • Critical thinking • Problem solving skills • Collaboration • Creativity and innovativeness Image: theonlyone (Flickr) Thursday, March 31, 2011
- 7. Image: Cristobal Cobo Romani Digital literacies: media (More advanced than e-mail.) literacy and ICT skills Thursday, March 31, 2011
- 8. Career and life skills • Flexibility • Adaptability • Initiative • Social skills • Intercultural skills • Responsibility Thursday, March 31, 2011
- 9. But...how can I teach these? Thursday, March 31, 2011
- 10. You can’t. These skills can only be acquired when the learning environment supports their acquisition and rewards from it. (Ruohotie 2002) Thursday, March 31, 2011
- 11. Mission: help teachers acquire 21st century skills and build a knowledge society professional identity Ongoing dialogic Open, social media assessment - no environments exams New approach Principles of authentic to teacher Team learning learning education and facilitation Inquiry-based Networking learning Thursday, March 31, 2011
- 12. Authentic context • Non-linear: beware of oversimplification! • Second Life instead of LMS: less control, more surprises -> more like real life • Helping the students to cope with complexity rather than making it too simple Image: vgm8383 Thursday, March 31, 2011
- 13. Image: Bodum Authentic tasks • Real-life relevance • Ill-formed and complex - students won’t love them! • Inquiry-based learning: defining one’s own goals and questions • Using students’ own work as a starting-point Thursday, March 31, 2011
- 14. Access to expert performances • Second Life: observing expert teachers worldwide, e.g. Harvard • Networking and social media: significantly vaster scope of expertise available. Image: Destiny’s Agent Thursday, March 31, 2011
- 15. Image: Brian Hatchcock Inquiry-based learning + social media collaboration tools = multiple perspectives Linear format offers inadequate experience in complex problem solving! Thursday, March 31, 2011
- 16. Collaborative knowledge construction • Team learning. • Central element in inquiry- based learning: a reflective process on individual and collaborative level. • 3D worlds proved to be effective in collaborative knowledge construction in distant learning: sense of community facilitates team work. Thursday, March 31, 2011
- 17. Image: Minette Layne Social media offers versatile tools for Reflection Blogging about the observations and experiences gained e.g. in Second Life Assess one’s action and skills, relate new skills to previous knowledge, attend to feelings, learn from others Thursday, March 31, 2011
- 18. Blogging offers a channel of articulation to enable tacit knowledge to become more explicit Online discussion: ideas are visible for everyone, available for discussion and further development... the thinking processes of learners are displayed, enabling individual & collaborative reflection Image: Robert Higgins Thursday, March 31, 2011
- 19. Image: James F Clay Image: Bernzilla An aspect SL students value most is the Scaffolding and coaching are vital elements of authentic learning. participation, presence and A common feature of a traditional LMS-based support of the teacher. course is the absence of a teacher. Thursday, March 31, 2011
- 20. Many e-learning courses use conventional assessment methods. Higher education assessment still largely measures relatively easily acquired cognitive skills: remembering, understanding and applying, instead of analyzing, evaluating and creating. image: william & mary law library These methods assess individual performance and focus on competition Image: ccarlstead rather than collaboration. Thursday, March 31, 2011
- 21. Image: clairity Ongoing, dialogic enables dialogic reflection, produces new, contextual assessment understanding Thursday, March 31, 2011
- 22. What is a good teacher like? • Competence is historically and socially defined -> interplay with experience. • Experience that doesn’t fit the current practice of the community -> learning takes place. (Wenger) • Need to shake the practices and mental models, give new experiences, offer plenty of opportunity for sharing & discussion. Thursday, March 31, 2011
- 23. Why do this with the help of Second Life? • Interacting in virtual worlds broaden worldviews and provide access to alternative viewpoints (Steinkuhler & Williams 2006) • Increased awareness of one’s own and others’ perspectives (Jarmon et al 2009) • Experiences in VW have affect attitudes and behaviors irl (Kapp & Driscoll 2010): beware with classroom simulations!! Thursday, March 31, 2011
- 24. What are the results? Global networking Openness and with the help of social defining one’s goals: media creative solutions and innovative methods Team learning and dialogue: diversity and shared expertise Freedom of choice in one’s learning New conception of path and working expertise and methods: initiative teacher’s work Kuva: Ruff Life (Flickr) and self-direction Collaborative knowledge construction: from consumers of knowledge to co-creators Thursday, March 31, 2011
- 25. Thank you! hanna.teras@tamk.fi hannateras.com Thursday, March 31, 2011