Measures of Dispersion and Variability: Range, QD, AD and SD
Professional Standards for Teachers from HEI in Romania
1. Professional Standards for Teachers from HEI in ROMANIA March, 2-4, 2011 - Balti Presentation by Carmen Holotescu Timsoft, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
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8. Arguments for change EC recommendation on media literacy in the digital environment for an inclusive knowledge society, 20.08 2009 [ + ]: “ open a public debate on the inclusion of media literacy in the compulsory education curriculum , and as part of the provision of key competences for LLL” EC, DG Education and Training, Improving the Quality of Teacher Education, 2007 [ + ]: “ teachers are asked to develop more collaborative and constructive approaches to learning and expected to be facilitators and classroom managers rather than excathedra trainers.” “ they are required to use the opportunities offered by new technologies and to respond to the demand for individualised learning” EC, Common European Principles for Teacher Competences and Qualifications, 2005 [ + ] EUN Insight: Assessment Schemes for Teachers’ ICT competence, 2005 [ + ]
9. Arguments for change UNESCO's ICT Competency Standards for Teachers, 2008 [ + ]: “ There is a lack of coordination between the adoption of technology in the classroom and the embracing of flexible and innovative teaching-learning strategies. ” EC IPTS, ICT for Learning, Innovation and Creativity, 2008 [ + ]: “ New technologies, and especially social computing, provide new opportunities for education and training, as they enhance learning and teaching, and facilitate collaboration, innovation and creativity for individuals and organizations. ”
13. Case Study Modules: On eLearning2.0, VLEs, Learning styles, Learning communities facilitation, e-Pedagogy, OER, RSS, Blogs, Microblogging, Wikis, Social Networks, Collaborative documents, OS/CC, Social Search Engines, etc. Blended course for using new technologies in education
14. Case Study Course elements: announcements modules - LOM/SCORM objects collaborative exercises learning from the stream multimedia messages livestreaming polls/quiz/ comments via SMS (f2f) validations - interactions with practitioners/ experts/groups
15. Case study from Handbook of Emerging Technologies in Education: George Siemens, Peter Tittenberg (pg.34) ltc.umanitoba.ca/wikis/etl
16. Case Study Teachers create (mobile) PLEs, discuss/improve scenarios for learning; peer mentoring, communities of practice
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19. Thank you for your attention! Carmen Holotescu [email_address] cirip.ro/u/cami13 twitter.com/cami13