This document discusses essential elements of effective online professional development. It notes some digital obstacles like digital resistance from educators born in an analog time. However, it argues that personal technology tools can and should be used for professional purposes as well. The document advocates for blending technology trends with best practices in early childhood teacher education and professional development. It also discusses the many flavors of modern learning, including blended, flipped, mobile, distributed, social, and connected learning.

1. 11/21/13
It’s real PD
and it’s online
Chip
Donohue,
PhD
Dean
of
Distance
Learning
&
Con?nuing
Educa?on
Director,
TEC
Center
Senior
Fellow,
Fred
Rogers
Center
Amanda
Armstrong,
MS
Program
Coordinator,
TEC
Center
Essential elements of
effective, engaging
and empowering
online professional
development
NAEYC
2013
Technology
issues
for
teacher
educators
and
professional
development
providers
1. Blurring
the
lines
between
technology
tools
for
personal
and
professional
use
2. Combining
the
many
flavors
of
learning
into
a
mashup
3. Blending
technology
trends
and
emerging
tools
with
best
prac?ces
in
teacher
educa?on/professional
development
4. Designing,
developing
and
delivering
effec?ve,
engaging
and
empowering
blended
and
online
courses,
professional
development
and
training
in
a
connected
world
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2. 11/21/13
The
young
and
the
digital
Born
digital…born
analog…born
BPC
ECE’s
narrow
bandwidth
of
experience…
• Born
in
another
?me
• Digital
tourists
teaching
digital
locals
• Confron?ng
our
technology
shortcomings
• Educa?ng
teacher
educators,
professional
development
providers,
teachers,
parents
• Using
technology
to
learn
how
to
use
technology…for
teaching,
learning
and
living
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3. 11/21/13
Digital
obstacles
for
PD
in
ECE
Digital
resistance
Digital
obstacles
for
PD
in
ECE
Teaching
analog
educators
digital
tricks
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4. 11/21/13
Digital
obstacles
for
PD
in
ECE
Adding
tech
isn’t
enough
Digital
obstacles
for
PD
in
ECE
Drowning
in
digital
informa@on
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5. 11/21/13
Digital
opportuni?es
for
PD
in
ECE
Personal
Tools
=
Professional
Tools
• Brainstorm
a
list
of
technology
tools
you
use
everyday
• Make
a
list
of
the
daily
tasks
you
accomplish
with
your
technology
tools
• What
technology
tools
would
you
refuse
to
let
me
take
away
or
turn
off
for
a
day?
Personal
tools
• Cellphone/Smartphone
• GPS
• Tablet
and
apps
• Voice
recogni?on
/
Siri
• Laptop
• WiFi
• E-­‐reader
• Social
media
• Digital
Camera/
Camcorder
• Streaming
media
• iPod,
iTunes
/
MP3
player
• YouTube
• Blogs
and
News
Aggregators
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6. 11/21/13
Personal
tools
for
living
&
learning
• Check
email
• Buy
?ckets
or
a
product
• Send
a
text
• Book
a
restaurant
or
trip
• Make
a
phone
call
• Search
for
informa?on
• Check
the
weather
• Par?cipate
in
social
media
• Update
your
calendar
• Listen
to
music/podcast
• Keep
up
with
news
• Watch
a
video
• Check
the
sports
scores
• Take
a
photo/video
• Get
direc?ons
• Read
a
book
or
magazine
All
contribute
to
digital
literacy
A
neighborly
reminder…
…Computers
can
be
useful
machines,
especially
when
they
help
people
communicate
in
caring
ways
with
each
other…
Dear
Mister
Rogers,
Does
It
Ever
Rain
in
Your
Neighborhood?
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7. 11/21/13
Blending
technology
trends
with
best
prac?ces
in
EC
teacher
educa?on
and
professional
development
The
many
flavors
of
learning
• Lifelong
and
lifewide
• Formal
/
informal
• Blended
/
flipped
• Mobile
• Distributed
• Social
• Connected
A
21st
century
learning
mashup
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8. 11/21/13
Lifelong
&
lifewide
learning
ecology
• Learn
with
anyone,
any@me,
anywhere,
on
any
device
• Blend
formal
and
informal
learning
• Mobile
access
to
on
demand
and
just-­‐in-­‐?me
learning
• Open
informa?on
and
free
educa?on
• Social
learning
and
professional
learning
communi?es
• Connect
personal
and
professional
• Are
you
leaning
back
or
leaning
in?
“…now
we
can
watch
a
newspaper,
listen
to
a
magazine,
see
a
phone
call…”
Formal
&
informal
learning
• Tools
for
learning
everywhere-­‐all-­‐the-­‐?me
• Consumer…Adopter…Adapter…Creator
• Home
and
school
• Out-­‐of-­‐school
?me
• Libraries,
museums,
nature
centers,
zoos
• Family
media
ecology
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9. 11/21/13
Blended
learning
• Face-­‐to-­‐face
and
online
• Classroom,
online
and
mobile
learning
• Synchronous
and
asynchronous
• Personal
and
professional
• Formal
and
informal
Flipped
classroom
• The
Kahn
Academy
• The
flipped
classroom
inverts
tradi?onal
teaching
methods,
delivering
instruc?on
online
outside
of
class
and
moving
“homework”
into
the
classroom
• Educa?onal
technology
and
learning
ac?vi?es
both
influence
the
learning
environment
• Pedagogical
shig
–
Online
learning
already
flipped
the
sage
on
the
stage
to
the
guide
on
the
side
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Mobile
learning
/
BYOD
• Any?me,
anywhere,
with
anyone
on
any
device
• Mobile
learners
with
portable
devices
• Learning
when
the
learner
is
not
at
a
fixed,
predetermined
loca?on
• Learning
when
the
learner
uses
mobile
tech
to
access
informa?on
and
interact
with
others
• BYOD
–
Bring
your
own
device
to
work,
to
school
Distributed
learning
Open
learning
/
content
• iTunesU
• MIT,
Harvard,
Stanford
• Kahn
Academy
• TED
• You
Tube
EDU
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11. 11/21/13
Massive
Open
Online
Course
• Course
par?cipants
are
worldwide
• 100s
to
1000s
to
100,000s
simultaneously
• Free
or
modest
fee
if
working
toward
cer?fica?on/accredita?on
• Course
content
is
not
found
in
one
place
–
the
web
is
the
“textbook”
Massive
Open
Online
Course
• No
specific
requirements
but
expected
to
stay
up
to
date
• Par?cipants
and
instructors
aggregate,
reminx
and
repurpose
the
content
during
the
course
• Hubs
of
interac?on
include
classroom,
blogs,
porkolios,
social
media
and
networks,
discussions,
YouTube…
We
need
LOOCs
not
MOOCs
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12. 11/21/13
Social
learning
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Social
Media
/
Networks
Par?cipatory
culture
Peer-­‐to-­‐peer
User-­‐contributed
content
User
ra?ngs,
rankings
and
reviews
Crowd
sourcing
Affinity
groups
/
Communi?es
of
interest
Social
media
for
learning
• Adds
speed
to
E-­‐Learning
• Distance
doesn’t
maner
• Enables
collabora?on
• Thrives
on
communica?on
• Encourages
peer-­‐to-­‐peer
• Connects
personal/professional
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13. 11/21/13
Connected
learning
Links
and
leverages
experiences,
interests,
communi?es,
and
contexts
in
which
learners
par?cipate
as
poten?al
learning
opportuni?es.
• New
technology
tools
to
connect
people
to
ideas
and
people
with
people
–
a
highly
connected
learning
ecosystem
• Learning
together
across
genera?ons,
cultures,
communi?es,
contexts
• Mash
up
formal
and
informal
to
develop
unique
learning
pathways
• Integra?on
and
cura?on
to
find
answers
• Bridge
home,
school
and
“third
spaces”
A
connec@vist
approach
for
construc@vists
Moving
Erikson
Online
Homegrown
best
prac?ces
and
5
keywords
for
effec?ve,
engaging
and
empowering
online
teaching
and
learning
Early
Childhood
Teacher
Educa?on
and
Professional
Development
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14. 11/21/13
Our
5
keywords
for
effec?ve,
engaging
and
empowering
online
learning
Moving
Erikson
Online
• Blending
high
tech
with
high
touch
• Suppor?ng
and
engaging
new
online
learners
• Encouraging
rela?onships
• Building
community
• Promo?ng
a
“sense
of
belonging”
• Suppor?ng
and
developing
online
aculty
• Establishing
the
instructor’s
voice
and
presence
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15. 11/21/13
Effec?ve
online
teachers
are…
• Fearlessly
authen?c
• Conspicuously
present
• Inten?onal
• Reflec?ve
• Balanced
• In
rhythm
• Teach
anyone,
any?me,
anywhere
on
any
device
Homegrown
Best
Prac?ces
• EriksonOnline
community
of
prac?ce
• Blending
asynchronous
and
synchronous
• Video
and
audio
– Course
Welcome
and
Module
Intros
– Course
&
Assignment
Expecta?ons
– Demonstra?ons
of
concepts
– Animated
graphics
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16. 11/21/13
Homegrown
Best
Prac?ces
• Video
&
Audio
– Classroom
capture
– Reading
a
children’s
book
– Faculty
team
interviews/presenta?ons
– Narrated
presenta?ons
Voice
Presence
Story
Rhythm
Community
It’s
Erikson,
and
it’s
online
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17. 11/21/13
Effec@ve,
engaging
and
empowering
online
professional
development
What
have
we
baked
into
our
recipe?
• Knowledge
of
adult
learning
and
EC
educators
as
adult
learners
• Preference
for
face-­‐to-­‐face/community
• Online
teaching
and
learning
strategies
• Instructor
presence
–
Guide
on
the
Side
• Chunking
content,
modules,
mul?media
• On-­‐site,
blended,
webinars,
fully
online
• Blending
synchronous
and
asynchronous
tools
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18. 11/21/13
Online
Professional
Development
Online
Professional
Development
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19. 11/21/13
A
case
study:
Teaching
with
technology
Amanda
Armstrong
A
case
study:
Teaching
with
technology
• Early
childhood
childhood
specialist
program
– Administrators
and
teachers
• Early
literacy
and
language
development
• Blended
learning
– In
person
seminars
– Online
modules
– Webinar
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20. 11/21/13
Online
Module
• Par?cipant
survey
• NAEYC/Fred
Rogers
Center
Joint
Posi?on
Statement
– Build
connec?on
to
teaching
prac?ce
– Develop
framework
for
digital
choices
• Video,
audio,
and
interac?vity
• Resource
integra?on
• Learn
how
to
use
tech
by
using
tech
• Building
a
community
of
prac?ce
Teaching
with
technology
module
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21. 11/21/13
Teaching
with
technology
module
Teaching
with
technology
module
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Teaching
with
technology
module
Teaching
with
technology
module
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23. 11/21/13
Teaching
with
technology
module
Teaching
with
technology
webinar
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24. 11/21/13
Case
Study
Conclusion
• Team
approach
• Use
different
types
of
technology
in
meaningful
contexts
• Content:
– Connects
research,
theory,
prac?ce,
and
par?cipant
input
• Engagement:
– Share
stories,
ideas,
resources,
and
problem
solving
strategies
Tech
Professional
Development
Magic
• Show
don’t
tell
• Have
each
classroom
learn
a
different
applica?on
• Host
a
teacher
tech
playground
/
tech
play
group
• Create
tech
field
trips
• Have
a
teacher
tech
show
and
tell
at
the
end
of
every
staff
mee?ng
• Develop
program
best
prac?ces
with
tech
• Create
a
teaching
with
tech
learning
community
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25. 11/21/13
Big
Ideas
for
Online
PD
1. Preach
what
you
prac?ce
2. Model
lifelong/lifewide
learning
3. Pull
instead
of
push
4. Use
tech
to
learn
how
to
use
tech
5. Be
a
designer
of
learning
6. Tech
manager,
mediator,
mentor
7. Tech
leadership
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