The document discusses a study that investigated how teacher educators relate the term "pedagogical innovation" to their use of educational technology. The study collected 110 narratives from teacher educators describing instances of pedagogical innovation and their definitions of the term. The findings suggest that teacher educators' discourse about innovation reflects socio-economic trends but differs from other professional fields and tended to mention general technologies rather than recent technologies.

1. HOW DO TEACHER EDUCATORS
RELATE THE TERM “PEDAGOGICAL
INNOVATION” TO THEIR USE OF
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
Dalit Levy
Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology & Arts
Lea Baratz
Achva College
The International Conference on Higher Education 2014 (ICHE2014)
Tel Aviv, Israel, March 17, 2014

2. An Image of Pedagogical Innovation
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
• What do you see?
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014

3. ABOUT US
MOTIVATION
BACKGROUND
CRITICAL LOOK
THE ISSUE
THE FIELD
METHODOLOGY
FINDINGS
NEXT STEPS
An Image of Pedagogical Innovation
Baratz & Levy, July 2, 2013

4. ABOUT US
MOTIVATION
BACKGROUND
CRITICAL LOOK
THE ISSUE
THE FIELD
METHODOLOGY
FINDINGS
NEXT STEPS
An Image of Pedagogical Innovation
Baratz & Levy, July 2, 2013

5. ABOUT US
MOTIVATION
BACKGROUND
CRITICAL LOOK
THE ISSUE
THE FIELD
METHODOLOGY
FINDINGS
NEXT STEPS
An Image of Pedagogical Innovation
Baratz & Levy, July 2, 2013

6. ABOUT US
MOTIVATION
BACKGROUND
CRITICAL LOOK
THE ISSUE
THE FIELD
METHODOLOGY
FINDINGS
NEXT STEPS
An Image of Pedagogical Innovation
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014

7. ABOUT US
MOTIVATION
BACKGROUND
CRITICAL LOOK
THE ISSUE
THE FIELD
METHODOLOGY
FINDINGS
NEXT STEPS
An Image of Pedagogical Innovation
Baratz & Levy, July 2, 2013

8. ABOUT US
MOTIVATION
BACKGROUND
CRITICAL LOOK
THE ISSUE
THE FIELD
METHODOLOGY
FINDINGS
NEXT STEPS
An Image of Pedagogical Innovation
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014

9. ABOUT US
MOTIVATION
BACKGROUND
CRITICAL LOOK
THE ISSUE
THE FIELD
METHODOLOGY
FINDINGS
NEXT STEPS
An Image of Pedagogical Innovation
Baratz & Levy, July 2, 2013

10. An Image of Pedagogical Innovation
• What do you see?
• What does “see”?
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014

11. An Image of Pedagogical Innovation
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014

12. PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY
• To investigate the use of the
semantic term innovation as it
finds expression in teacher
educators' definitions
• To reveal connections between
ideology and the “language of
innovation” of teacher
educators
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
‫וברץ‬ ‫לוי‬,10‫אוקטובר‬2013

13. Words of Pedagogical Innovation
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014

14. Words of Pedagogical Innovation
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014

15. QUESTIONS
• What is “the language of
innovation” of teacher educators?
• Does it express a new kind of
educational reality? Or, is it a semantic
habit that gives expression to the socio-
economic trends and ideologies?
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
‫וברץ‬ ‫לוי‬,10‫אוקטובר‬2013

16. An Image of Innovation
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
‫וברץ‬ ‫לוי‬,10‫אוקטובר‬2013

17. Another Image of Innovation
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014

18. Words of Innovation
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014

19. (By Alec Couros, 2010)
Words of Innovation
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014

20. QUESTIONS
• What is “the language of
innovation” of teacher educators?
• Does it express a new kind of
educational reality? Or, is it a semantic
habit that gives expression to the socio-
economic trends and ideologies?
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014

21. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
 Language and ideology
 Ideology of teacher educators
and its influence on their
attitudes
 Innovations – semantic habits or
ideological trends
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY

22. METHOD
 A research tool was designed to collect
teacher educators' stories
 The respondents were first asked to characterize
elements of pedagogical innovation from their
field of practice, according to the principle of a
"small story" (Bamberg, 2006)
 At the end, the respondents were asked
to provide a definition of pedagogical
innovation
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014

23. METHOD
 A research tool was designed to collect
teacher educators' stories
 The respondents were first asked to
characterize elements of pedagogical
innovation from their field of practice,
according to the principle of a "small
story" (Bamberg, 2006)
 At the end, the respondents were asked
to provide a definition of pedagogical
innovation
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014

24. METHOD
 110 responses were collected (in a
narrative form), from teacher educators
in 7 colleges of education around Israel
 An inductive analysis was carried out in
three stages
 Here, we focus on the analysis of the
responses to the first quesstion:
“describe a situation in which you
implemented pedagogical innovation”
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014

25. METHOD
"‫שימוש‬ ‫לעשות‬ ‫ניתן‬ ‫כיצד‬ ‫לסטודנטים‬ ‫הדגמתי‬ ‫היום‬‫ב‬‫סמארטפון‬‫לשדרוג‬
‫הוראתי‬ ‫נושא‬ ‫של‬ ‫וההבנה‬ ‫העניין‬( "‫מגיב‬95,‫ינואר‬2012.)
"‫לדוגמא‬-‫שימוש‬‫מודל‬ ‫באתר‬‫בקורס‬.‫אני‬‫מעלה‬‫מערכים‬
‫מפורטים‬‫מנת‬ ‫על‬ ‫אותם‬ ‫לקרוא‬ ‫מהסטודנטים‬ ‫ומבקשת‬ ‫שיעור‬ ‫כל‬ ‫לקראת‬
‫בשיעור‬ ‫בהם‬ ‫לדון‬.‫פדגוגית‬ ‫חדשנות‬ ‫זו‬ ‫האם‬?‫לא‬ ‫לדעתי‬.‫לדעת‬
‫כן‬ ‫שלי‬ ‫הסטודנטים‬.‫זאת‬ ‫עושה‬ ‫אני‬ ‫שרק‬ ‫טוענים‬ ‫הם‬( "‫מגיבה‬85,‫ינואר‬
2012.)
"‫לפני‬ ‫פדגוגית‬ ‫חדשנות‬ ‫יישמתי‬3‫שנים‬,‫לצרף‬ ‫במכללה‬ ‫הציעו‬ ‫כאשר‬
‫אסיסטנטית‬‫המחשבים‬ ‫מתחום‬‫בכך‬ ‫שיבחר‬ ‫מרצה‬ ‫לכל‬.‫זה‬ ‫לאתגר‬ ‫מיד‬ ‫נעניתי‬
‫שלי‬ ‫המתודיקה‬ ‫לשיעורי‬ ‫אותה‬ ‫וצרפתי‬.‫יחד‬‫איתה‬‫יישמתי‬‫המחשב‬ ‫שילוב‬
‫הספרות‬ ‫בהוראת‬‫זו‬ ‫סיטואציה‬ ‫עבור‬ ‫במיוחד‬ ‫שהכנתי‬ ‫רציונל‬ ‫לפי‬....
‫האסיסטנטית‬‫המחשב‬ ‫מתחום‬‫יכלו‬ ‫ובעזרתה‬ ‫המהלכים‬ ‫בכל‬ ‫לי‬ ‫סייעה‬
‫לפתח‬ ‫הסטודנטיות‬‫ממוחשבים‬ ‫הוראה‬ ‫מערכי‬( "...‫מגיבה‬25,‫דצמבר‬2010.)
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014

26. FINDINGS
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
TEACHER EDUCATORS’ DISCOURSE OF
PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION
NO
INNOVATION
MENTION
TECHNOLOGIES
SUGGEST RENEWED
DEFINITION
1. BUILD
THEORY
SUGGEST RENEWED
DEFINITION
3. DOUBLE
MEANING
2. VARIETY OF
APPROACHES
4. RECURSIVE
THINKING
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014

27. FINDINGS
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
MENTION
TECHNOLOGIES
SUGGEST RENEWED
DEFINITION
SUGGEST RENEWED
DEFINITION
2. NOT THE MOST
UPDATED APPS
NO
INNOVATION
TEACHER EDUCATORS’ DISCOURSE OF
PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION
3. FUTURE
THINKING
1. GENERAL
TERMS
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014

28. FINDINGS
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
MENTION
TECHNOLOGIES
SUGGEST RENEWED
DEFINITION
SUGGEST RENEWED
DEFINITION
2. NOT THE MOST
UPDATED APPS
NO
INNOVATION
TEACHER EDUCATORS’ DISCOURSE OF
PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION
3. FUTURE
THINKING
1. GENERAL
TERMS
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014
• OER
• OPENNESS
• OPEN EDUCATION

29. SO, WHAT CHARACTERIZES COLLEGE TEACHERS’
DISCOURSE ABOUT PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION?
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
 The discussion of innovation among
teacher educators reflects components
of semantic habits that give expression
to the trends of socio-economic policy-
makers (Ben-Peretz).
 The ideology that teacher educators hold
influences the semantic use of the
concept of innovation, as was reflected
in the definitions of the research
respondents.Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014

30. SO, WHAT CHARACTERIZES COLLEGE TEACHERS’
DISCOURSE ABOUT PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION?
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
 The discussion of innovation among
teacher educators seems to differ from
what can be found in other professional
“communities of practice” (agriculture,
environment, health, high-tech, business
development, science…)
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014

31. SO, WHAT CHARACTERIZES COLLEGE TEACHERS’
DISCOURSE ABOUT PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION?
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
 The discourse tended to mention
instructional technologies
 However, it did not refer to the most
recent instructional technologies
 The stories tended to use general terms,
such as "distance learning" and "the
course website”, and not specific
technologies
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014

32. Back to an Image of Pedagogical
Innovation
IMAGES
MOTIVATION
QUESTIONS
BACKGROUND
METHOD
FINDINGS
SUMMARY
• What do you see
now?
Levy & Baratz, March 17, 2014