CNDP/France – cycle 2
Summary
Session Date and Time: 29/06/2011
Participants: Two secondary school teachers:
– Christophe : English language teacher since 1986, he implemented a Moodle learning platform for his students and was for 16 years the school’s ICT coordinator, experimented the use of netbooks associated with Moodle in a class for one year
– Francis: History/Geography teacher in a European class since 3 years.
Researchers / Designers : Claude, Michael
Scenarios discussed : Mentoring teachers to improve digital literacy, Professional development in the global classroom
Scenario 2 : Mentoring teachers to improve digital literacy
First thoughts
– There is no scale to measure teachers’ digital literacy. Teachers should possess technical skills before teaching students with ICT.
– Students are in a different digital world (social media, chat, etc.) they don’t use e-mails or basic file formats.
– People have to be continually exposed to technologies to be able to follow upgrades.
– When talking about ICT, teachers mostly ask technical questions, not pedagogical ones.
Is it a possible story today ?
– Very often, one or two colleagues in the school are interested in the use of new technologies and they “go ahead”, while other colleagues are left behind.
– The progression should be institutionalized: teachers should learn how to use ICT, at least at a basic level, then follow constant training to improve this basic level
– When you ask students what technologies could be used in class, they don’t have many ideas because they don’t know what’s available.
– A main problem: to find the right resources online?
– Teachers share online documents and comments outside the classroom
Identification with the scenario
– Some teachers can be uncomfortable with the idea of other teachers sitting in their class
– It might be difficult to communicate internationally
Next step of the scenario
– The base-knowledge has improved, thanks to stocking and sharing documents online
– But human interaction (face-to-face) is still very important
– The communication should be more “horizontal” (among peers) than it is now
Scenario 5: Professional development in the global classroom
First thoughts
– “How can I become a connected teacher ?”
– When a teacher has a problem with ICT, where can he go ?
– No mention of other colleagues in the scenario ?
– If colleagues can’t help, I find answers to my questions by browsing forums
– Maybe connect with other teachers, but lack of time and which forum ?
– Ideally: to have an “officially approved” website with exercises and resources for teachers, because browsing is time-consuming
Identification with the scenario
– Personal experimentation of Moodle
– Technologies bring in motivation and a variety of approaches but it isn’t fully integrated in teaching yet
Next step of the scenario
– No need of short talks anymore on Scratch
– Training sessions: leaders need to move on
– Set up a group who can develop online applications
– A problem : the time people put to get used to a software, there’s already a new one on the market
– Help the “technophobics”
Ideas for tools
– Having online experts available
– Database of pedagogical resources
– Forums
– A user-friendly flash content producer (piece of software)
– Journal of new technologies
– Coordination with other countries
– Hardware : netbooks, tablets, e-PC
