Professional development that is “tied to curriculum support and development is most successful,” said Livingston. “PD works best when it is not a one-shot undertaking, but is varied and continues yearly. Studies again and again show that with any major school-wide initiative, the most important factor for success is what happens in the classroom.”
Otto agrees, saying his school gives teachers advance preparation: One and a half years before the laptops arrived, teachers sat down to plan their technology-based lessons. “Teacher training is critical,” he said, “because we need to know what works to be able to use it productively in class.”
John Orban, system administrator for The Country School in Easton, Md., said that whenever possible, schools should have faculty conduct these training workshops, “as it seems their peers pay more attention to them than [to] the ‘technology folks.’”
Orban said his school requires teachers to submit a written technology plan each month indicating how they plan to use technology in their classroom.
“The biggest fault with 1-to-1 initiatives is not looking at the entire process,” said John Thompson, associate professor in the education technology program at New York’s Buffalo State College.
“Buying laptops is the easiest part of the process, but too often school districts neglect such fundamental items as providing initial and ongoing professional development for the teachers and providing sufficient tech support,” Thompson said. “Taking a true TCO [total cost of ownership] approach would avoid many of the mistakes, as schools often do not have a good grasp of the real costs of starting and continuing a 1-to-1 program. And part of the TCO approach should be setting measurable program objectives and then doing formative and summative program evaluations, whose results are made known to everyone to provide a feedback loop in the continuous planning and re-planning that characterizes successful programs.”
Interesantísimo y extenso artículo sobre proyectos 1-to-1 y su eficacia en el aula. Se plantean puntos de vista muy interesantes sobre las claves que pueden pueden convertir a proyectos como Eskola 2.0 en un éxito o en un completo fracaso. Y como era previsible, todo indica a que el meollo de la cuestión está en el profesorado.
O de verdad empezamos a mover fiche en este sentido o todo el dinero que se está invirtiendo no va a servir para nada. Urge:
Y todo esto sólo puede ser efectivo si se enfoca desde el punto de vista del centro como unidad mínima de cambio. Al igual que en el caso de los alumnos, los profesores deben ser competentes a la hora de resolver situaciones del día a día. Es por eso que todo lo anterior debe venir marcado por la realidad de cada centro y debe ser diseñado atendiendo a las características del profesorado, del alumnado, de las familias y del entorno social en el que se encuentra el centro. Yo creo que queda de sobra demostrado que los modelos de gestión y formación centralistas apenas aportan a la mayoría de los centros. Cursos de formación como los que se plantean en Eskola 2.0, generalistas y principalmente basadas en contenidos, no son una garantía real de cambio.
Evindentemente, en un modelo educativo como el que ahora tenemos, hipercentralizado, teledirigido y complaciente poca cosa más se puede hacer. Es por eso que para que todo lo anterior pueda ser una realidad es imprescindible una gestión de centro moderna y autónoma. En eso debería de gastar tiempo, dinero y energías la administración. Pero eso es harina de otro costal.
2009-2010 ikasturtea berezia izan da gure ikastolan. Urte biren bueltan, ikastolan erabiltzen dugun software ia guztia librea izatea pasa gara.Eman dugun urratsa ez da nolanahikoa izan, ikasle eta irakasleok bizi dugun egunerokotasunean eragin handia izan duen erabaki bat izan da. Aurretik egin den informazio eta kontzientziazio lana garrantzitsua izan bada ere, ezinezkoa da egoera berri honek ekarriko dituen gorabehera guztiak aintzat hartu eta aurretik lotuta izatea.
Gidatzen kotxea hartuta ikasten den bezala, software berria erabiltzen eta praktikatzen ikasten da. Eta orduantxe sortzen zaizkigu galdera, kezka eta laguntza behar nagusienak. Tira ba, txoko berri honek horiei guztiei erantzuna ematea du helburu, hasi berri dugun ibilbide honetan topatuko ditugun oztopoak gainditzen laguntzeko.
Ez da hori, baina, helburu bakarra. Badago beste bat, hain nabarmena ez dena agian, baina aurrekoa bezain garrantzitsua dena. Software askearen komunitatea eredugarria zerbaitetan baldin bada, hori erabiltzaileen artean dagoen lankidetza eta elkarlanarengatik da. Izpiritu hori ere gurera ekartzea nahiko genuke.
XXI. mendeak bere lehen hamarkada bete berri duen garai honetan, ikaskuntza norabide bakarrean gertatzen dela azaltzen duten teoriak atzean geratu dira. Gaur egun ikaskuntza zerbait soziala bezala ulertzen da, dialogikoa, denok denongandik ikasten dugu. Parekoen arteko eztabaidak, argudioen kontrastea, galde/erantzunak... ezagutza taldean eraikitzen laguntzen dute. Ikaskuntza eredu berri hau oraindik gehiago nabarmendu da teknologia berrien garapena eta interneten gertatu den iraultzarekin, batez ere.
Txoko honek denon eskura ipintzen ditu oinarrizko azpiegitura, komunikaziorako ingurunea, eztabaida eta argudioen hartu-emanetarako lekua baina badago zerbait zure esku bakarrik dagoena. Talde bezala ikasten joateko eta beharrezko heldutasun eta alfabetizazio digitala lortzeko, zure partaidetza behar-beharrezkoa da. Zure lankidetza eta partaidetza taldearen mesederako izango dela sinistuz bakarrik beteko du gune honek bere helburua. Zure esku dago, beraz, txoko honek ibilbide luzea izatea edota gauerdiko ahuntzaren eztularen parekoan izatea.
Antzeko beste guneak prestatu ditugunean ezin da esan arrakasta gehiegirik izan dutenik ikastolako komunitatean. Ea oraingoan etekin gehiago ateratzen diogun egindako "montaje" honi. Benetan pozgarria izango litzateke eta gunea osatzen jarraitzeko behar diren animoak eskuratzeko baliagarria.
Ikusiko dugu.
"Son seis los principios básicos del programa de formación de educadores de esta Secretaría:
1) El educador es el sujeto de su práctica, competiéndole a él crearla recrearla.
2) La formación del educador debe instrumentalizarlo para que él cree y recree su práctica a través de la reflexión sobre su cotidiano.
3) La formación del educador dbe ser constante, sistematizada, porque la práctica se hace y se rehace.
4) La práctica pedagógica requiere la comprensión de la propia génesis del conocimiento, o sea, de cómo se da el proceso de conocer.
5) El programa de formación de educadores es condición para el proceso de reorientación curricular de la escuela.
6) El programa de formación de educadores tendrá como ejes básicos:
- La fisonomía de la escuela que se quiere, en tanto horizonte de la nueva propuesta;
- La necesidad de suplir elementos de formación básica en los educadores en las diferentes áreas del conocimiento humano.
- La apropiación, por los educadores, de los avances científicos del conocimiento humano que puedan contribuir a la calidad de la escuela que se quiere."
via Jordi Adell
"... five major tasks that are perceived as critical to meeting the needs of students:
1. We must encourage the reuse and remixing of rich media. In order to achieve this, it must be easier to find, use, and cite pieces of media, especially for educational purposes. Contextual tools that perform these tasks, co-developed by students as the end-users, must be created and made available to all. We must also develop ways to translate rich media, not only between languages, but also between modalities, such that content produced in a certain geographical area and medium may be accessed and reused in other places and in other forms. Portability of rich media is key; content must not be tied to a certain platform for delivery, nor to a specific medium or environment.
2. We must embrace the full promise of mobile devices as learning platforms. Mobiles — not simply phones, but all kinds of handheld and portable devices — are a powerful tool for learning because they are controlled by the holder. With mobile devices, users can direct their own learning experiences, accessing information where and when they need it. It is critical that we effect a paradigm shift toward recognizing mobiles as a primary platform for delivery of educational content — not content that is translated for use on mobiles, but content that is designed for such use from the outset. We must actively encourage development practices that remove platform independency. Likewise, we must advocate for a global mobile network that is as easy to use, as inexpensive, and even more ubiquitous than the web.
3. We must award credentials based on learning outcomes. It is time to recognize the learning that occurs outside of courses and beyond classroom walls. The model of awarding credentials solely on the basis of participation in established programs must give way to a more flexible design that separates credentials from coursework and recognizes mastery regardless of where or how it is attained. As more learners choose alternate means of education, including non-university programs, mentoring, apprenticeship, and other informal or innovative options, we must accept and recognize their achievements as equivalent to those gained in more traditional ways.
4. We must enable a culture of sharing. Recognizing that the sharing and reuse of scholarly work is a key component of the university of the future, we advocate building a culture of sharing in which concerns about intellectual property, copyright, and student-to-student collaboration are alleviated and the model of proprietary work dissolves in favor of a more open one. To this end, we must establish reward structures that support the sharing of work in progress, ongoing research, highly collaborative projects, and scholarly publications of all kinds, including reputation systems, peer review processes, and new models for citation of such content. We must empower students to share knowledge with one anotherin ways that are viewed as collaboration rather than cheating. Assessment models must change to support these practices. Ultimately, we see a culture of sharing as a crucial piece of the infrastructure of a scalable educational system that can support the millions of learners who will participate in it.
5. We must take care that open resources include the context that will enable its use and understanding. Content out of context is at best easy to misconstrue, and at worst, too difficult to use. Producers of open content must consider ways of attaching pedagogical narratives to content that will help provide necessary context. One approach is the notion of “pedagogical wrappers” — specific guidelines and processes that can ensure the content is placed in an appropriate context — or in the case of broadly useful topics, a variety of appropriate contexts. Such wrappers would ensure that the focus remains on learning objectives and process, rather than on the technology used to deliver the learning materials."
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