SIG-Sponsored Webinars: Archives and Announcements
The Special Interest Group Program has offered two professional development webinars this fall, and the SIGs have several events scheduled for the upcoming months. If you have suggestions for topics or activities, please contact your SIG Officers directly or contact Audrey Vanderford, SIG Program Manager (avanderford@iste.org).
The Emergence of Ultramobiles in Education
Dr. Alice Owen & Sam Farsaii
Irving ISD
An explosion of new devices called “ultramobiles” have emerged in the education market. This webinar will provide time for participants to compare, features, discuss implementation efforts and explore these tools as alternatives to laptops. If you are implementing or thinking about implementing a one-to-one initiative, we welcome you to this dialogue!
January 23, 2009 -- 11am PT / 12 noon MT / 1pm CT / 2pm ET
Registration information will be distributed in mid-January.
Disrupting Class: Book Study & Webinar
Starting the week of January 6th, SIGAdmin will discuss the book Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton Chritiansen. Each week discussion questions will be posted on the SIGAdmin wiki and we hope that many people will join in the discussion by posting their thoughts and comments. The culminating activity of this book discussion will be a webinar on Thursday February 26, 2009 with co-author Michael Horn.
More information will be distributed in January.
Technology Integration in Teaching: The TPACK Framework
Dr. Punya Mishra & Dr. Matthew J. Koehler
Michigan State University
The ability to be creative and flexible is critical in face of a rapidly changing world. Nowhere is this more important than in teaching. Digital technology is playing an increasing important role in the world of teaching, offering the potential to fundamentally change the practice and process of teaching and learning. These changes, however, present significant challenges to teachers and teacher educators. Confronting these challenges requires moving beyond notions of just integrating technology to an understanding of the complex issues teachers face. In this session, we present the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework as a way of thinking about teacher knowledge, technology integration, and teacher creativity. TPACK, with its emphasis on the interaction teachers' knowledge of Content, Pedagogy, and Technology, places teachers front and center as designers of curriculum, who flexibly and creatively integrate technology and pedagogical approaches to help their students understand subject matter.
Archives available here.
What Online Teachers Need to Know and Do
Rebekah Richards
The American Academy
Research shows that the teacher is the single most important factor in an online student's success. While content knowledge transfers from a brick-and-mortar classroom to an online one, the classroom management and student communication skills do not. In this webinar, we'll examine the things online teachers need to know and do to help their students be successful; we'll also discuss best practices for building capacity in all teachers.
Archives available here.
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