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Sharon Petersand Konrad Glogowski

The Good news....

Teachers see connection between their own prof growth and learning gains of their students

Time Factors

Funding Issues

Lack of Quality Materials for teaching

Lack of Support Resources

Lack of leadership

0 22.5 45.0 67.5 90.0

Factors Preventing Effective PD

Are we surprised??

Online tools and environments are not being used to their great potential

Nearly 70% of educators state they have NEVER used web-based tools or environments

to communicate at a distance for PD

GraceiLike.... ... on the topic of

backchanneling

Meg

Fictionpress - Simply Meg

ICT in Education - Music on the Internet

A Real Teen Talks about Blogging and Social Spaces

Facebook

Nat

YouTube for music videos

Facebook

Watching online videos

http://students2oh.org/

School as a learning environment for teachers

Is your school fostering a learning community for you?

Observed that those schools with a strong learning community for their teachers through mentorships, opportunities for informal and formal PD are strong learning communities for their students

(Diagrams by Alec Couros in PhD Dissertation - “Examining the Open Movement: Possibilities and Implications for Education",(172) 2006. Used with permission.)

Shared online learning spaces provide opportunities for students to "be human together" (Siemens)

How about educators?

Your Network is Your Filter. (Tapscott)

We learn from the company we keep. (Smith)

This is the Internet....

Personal Learning Environment

From: http://blog.core-ed.net/derek/2006/11/participation_online_the_four.html

A Taxonomy for ALL Learners!

Professional Development is changing....

The 15 minute Daily Challenge

Self-directedSelf-initiatedSelf-driven

Selfish

Some Resources

Professional Growth Wiki

Unplugging Conferences

Open PD

Edtechtalk.com