Much has been made over the years about shifting traditional professional development from “sit and git” to participatory, but just as in the classroom, where sometimes direct teaching is necessary to provide students with the background they need for your “guide on the side” activity that follows, so also a range of edtech professional development models can serve different purposes. Hence, “sit and git” seems to remain popular, even in our online sessions! Rather than assume that “sit and git” is the de facto approach, however, what if we all craft (and value) professional development opportunities that best meet the needs, experiences, and abilities of all learners in the room? How do we do that?
In this session, we’ll explore how knowing a little about Diffusion of Innovations, TPACK and SAMR frameworks can provide us with sensible ways of helping our local leaders determine how best to approach edtech professional learning:
We’ll look at a range of PL models explored in the research - from individual coaching and class visits to book studies and more, which can help us “lead change from within”, to support learners at various places on the Diffusion of Innovations scale within our schools and school districts.
We’ll then turn our topic inside out completely, to share and celebrate the additional affordances that social media provides today to connect us with our own customized professional learning network - others not only passionate about emerging edtech-related pedagogies and tools, but happy to share their resources on the fly with those of us who just reach out to them - and vice versa.
Leave this session with strategies, connections and resources that will help you help others on their edtech integration journeys, as well as with some great social media pages that might just keep your (and your network’s) own edtech journeys humming along.
Target Audience
Teachers, School-based Administrators, Instructional Coaches, Learning Coaches, Inclusive Learning Teachers
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