This document discusses various topics related to professional development for educators, including joining professional organizations, developing student agency, using technology to support special education students, promoting student well-being, and attending an education technology conference. The document provides resources and strategies for improving instruction and support for students, such as incorporating more technology, finding ways for students to take ownership of their learning, and using data to encourage mental health. Key areas of focus include students struggling with standardized curricula, special needs, well-being, and using social media appropriately.
This was a presentation that I gave to lead a discussion on the use of social media in higher education teaching and learning. Some of the points on the slides came from the discussion which took place in the group regarding social media and its use in teaching and learning in higher education
Dr. Timothy Gadson - Leveraging Technology in Education: Empowering Educators...Timothy Gadson
Explore the dynamic world of educational technology alongside Dr. Timothy Gadson in this enlightening presentation, "Leveraging Technology in Education: Empowering Educators and Students." Delve into cutting-edge strategies and practical insights designed to equip educators with the tools they need to effectively integrate technology into their teaching practice. Discover how technology can be leveraged to engage students, personalize learning experiences, and promote equity in education. From digital resources to innovative teaching methods, this presentation covers a wide range of topics to inspire and empower educators to harness the full potential of technology in the classroom.
Assuring Best Practice in Learning and Teaching: Priorities for Institutions,...Mike KEPPELL
Assuring Best Practice in Learning and Teaching: Priorities for Institutions, Teachers and Learners in a Connected World
This presentation will focus on learning and teaching in a connected world within the Higher Education context. Knowledge is now co-created, disseminated via networks, and personalised. It has moved from being described as “explaining some part of the world” and “used in some type of action” to involving ecologies and networks (Siemens, 2006, p. vi). The presentation will focus on:
• How learning and teaching has changed in a connected world
o Active learning
o Learning spaces
o Central role of technology
• Innovative teaching in a connected world
o Blended learning
o Authentic assessment
o Professional development
• The knowledge, skills and attitudes teachers need to thrive in a connected world
o Digital fluency
o Seamless teaching
o Assuring best practice in technology-enhanced environments
o Technology affordances
o Scholarship
o Learning analytics
• The knowledge, skills and attitudes learners need to thrive in a connected world
o Learners will need a toolkit encompassing digital literacies, seamless learning, self-regulated learning, learning-oriented assessment, lifelong learning, and flexible learning pathways. This toolkit will enable the learner to tackle the complexities of the learning landscape that is becoming increasingly digital, connected, and ambiguous.
This was a presentation that I gave to lead a discussion on the use of social media in higher education teaching and learning. Some of the points on the slides came from the discussion which took place in the group regarding social media and its use in teaching and learning in higher education
Dr. Timothy Gadson - Leveraging Technology in Education: Empowering Educators...Timothy Gadson
Explore the dynamic world of educational technology alongside Dr. Timothy Gadson in this enlightening presentation, "Leveraging Technology in Education: Empowering Educators and Students." Delve into cutting-edge strategies and practical insights designed to equip educators with the tools they need to effectively integrate technology into their teaching practice. Discover how technology can be leveraged to engage students, personalize learning experiences, and promote equity in education. From digital resources to innovative teaching methods, this presentation covers a wide range of topics to inspire and empower educators to harness the full potential of technology in the classroom.
Assuring Best Practice in Learning and Teaching: Priorities for Institutions,...Mike KEPPELL
Assuring Best Practice in Learning and Teaching: Priorities for Institutions, Teachers and Learners in a Connected World
This presentation will focus on learning and teaching in a connected world within the Higher Education context. Knowledge is now co-created, disseminated via networks, and personalised. It has moved from being described as “explaining some part of the world” and “used in some type of action” to involving ecologies and networks (Siemens, 2006, p. vi). The presentation will focus on:
• How learning and teaching has changed in a connected world
o Active learning
o Learning spaces
o Central role of technology
• Innovative teaching in a connected world
o Blended learning
o Authentic assessment
o Professional development
• The knowledge, skills and attitudes teachers need to thrive in a connected world
o Digital fluency
o Seamless teaching
o Assuring best practice in technology-enhanced environments
o Technology affordances
o Scholarship
o Learning analytics
• The knowledge, skills and attitudes learners need to thrive in a connected world
o Learners will need a toolkit encompassing digital literacies, seamless learning, self-regulated learning, learning-oriented assessment, lifelong learning, and flexible learning pathways. This toolkit will enable the learner to tackle the complexities of the learning landscape that is becoming increasingly digital, connected, and ambiguous.
Towards an institutional framework to effectively support transitions to blen...Vicki Dale
Presentation by Vicki Dale, Josephine Adekola and Kerr Gardiner, University of Glasgow, to the ALT-C conference, University of Warwick, 6-8 September 2016
This presentation covers the major principles of Andragogy as outlined by Malcolm Knowles and ideas and best practices for incorporating these principles in an eLearning environment.
Presented at LOEX 2017 with Trudi Jacobson
Librarians and faculty members from three institutions collaborated to adapt a metaliteracy Digital Citizen badge for use with graduate literacy education students. The multi-faceted goal is not only for these students to affirm their roles as digital citizens, but also to actively teach and model such citizenship to their prospective students. This grant-funded project, which adapts content from an existing metaliteracy badging system, incorporates mechanisms to encourage a community of users, and serves as a model for collaborations with faculty across various disciplines.
In this session, project collaborators will briefly introduce metaliteracy (metaliteracy.org), provide an overview of the badging system (metaliteracybadges.org), and discuss the components added for this project, and mechanisms that worked well for collaborating. We are not only concerned with collaboration within the grant team; we also built components that will encourage educators to create open access learning objects for an Educators Corner and an Educators Conference.
Drawing from expertise as co-creators and researchers in initiatives such as the new ACRL Information Literacy Framework and the Connecting Credentials (connectingcredentials.org) and Global Learning Qualifications Frameworks (funded by the Lumina Foundation), we have worked together to create a robust resource that will be available to every SUNY institution, and, ultimately, to interested institutions beyond SUNY. We encourage participants to actively engage in the presentation by contributing ideas for badging opportunities based on your own professional development and curricular goals to an open forum in the Educators Corner.
A webinar on 'Planning and Management of Inclusive Classrooms' organised by Department of Education,
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University,
Tirunelveli.
Invited Resource Person
Ms B. Viji
Former untenured Assistant Professor
Department of Education
MS University
Learning analytics futures: a teaching perspectiveRebecca Ferguson
Talk given by Rebecca Ferguson on 22 November 2018 int Universita Ca'Foscario Venezia at the event Nuovi orizzonti della ricerca pedagogica: evidence-based learning e learning analytics
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Towards an institutional framework to effectively support transitions to blen...Vicki Dale
Presentation by Vicki Dale, Josephine Adekola and Kerr Gardiner, University of Glasgow, to the ALT-C conference, University of Warwick, 6-8 September 2016
This presentation covers the major principles of Andragogy as outlined by Malcolm Knowles and ideas and best practices for incorporating these principles in an eLearning environment.
Presented at LOEX 2017 with Trudi Jacobson
Librarians and faculty members from three institutions collaborated to adapt a metaliteracy Digital Citizen badge for use with graduate literacy education students. The multi-faceted goal is not only for these students to affirm their roles as digital citizens, but also to actively teach and model such citizenship to their prospective students. This grant-funded project, which adapts content from an existing metaliteracy badging system, incorporates mechanisms to encourage a community of users, and serves as a model for collaborations with faculty across various disciplines.
In this session, project collaborators will briefly introduce metaliteracy (metaliteracy.org), provide an overview of the badging system (metaliteracybadges.org), and discuss the components added for this project, and mechanisms that worked well for collaborating. We are not only concerned with collaboration within the grant team; we also built components that will encourage educators to create open access learning objects for an Educators Corner and an Educators Conference.
Drawing from expertise as co-creators and researchers in initiatives such as the new ACRL Information Literacy Framework and the Connecting Credentials (connectingcredentials.org) and Global Learning Qualifications Frameworks (funded by the Lumina Foundation), we have worked together to create a robust resource that will be available to every SUNY institution, and, ultimately, to interested institutions beyond SUNY. We encourage participants to actively engage in the presentation by contributing ideas for badging opportunities based on your own professional development and curricular goals to an open forum in the Educators Corner.
A webinar on 'Planning and Management of Inclusive Classrooms' organised by Department of Education,
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University,
Tirunelveli.
Invited Resource Person
Ms B. Viji
Former untenured Assistant Professor
Department of Education
MS University
Learning analytics futures: a teaching perspectiveRebecca Ferguson
Talk given by Rebecca Ferguson on 22 November 2018 int Universita Ca'Foscario Venezia at the event Nuovi orizzonti della ricerca pedagogica: evidence-based learning e learning analytics
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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2. Professional Organizations
•Learn from others
•Access to information and research
•Network with other educators
•Develop support system
•Help others improve
3. Developing Learner Agency
• Divorce from the standardized curriculum (Kolb,
2022)
• Develop student's soft skills
• Learn ways to encourage creativity in the
classroom
4. Student Application
• Find ways to involve students
in their own learning.
• Incorporate technology more
effectively
• Focus my teaching
• Students struggling in
standardized classroom
• Students having difficulty with
learner agency
• Students thriving in
technology-based learning
5. Special Education Technology
• Ways to incorporate technology in a special education
setting (Roland, 2015)
• Improving learning experience of students with special
needs
• Ideas on how to differentiate instruction for students
with special needs.
6. Student Application
• Improve my use of technology
with students with special
needs.
• Find programs to use to
diversify teaching methods
• Students with special needs
who struggle with written or
oral teaching
• Students who are delayed
7. Supporting Student Well-Being
•Methods to engage students about well-
being (Wurster, 2023)
•Ways to use social media appropriately
•Target lessons to improve student mental
health
8. Student Application
• Teach students how to
navigate social media
• Use real time data to
encourage and support
students
• Improve the mental health of
students though targeted
intervention
• Middle school students and
those struggling with mental
health
• Socially fatigued students
• Vulnerable students
9. ISTE EdTech Conference
• Students as digital citizens
• Students using technology for good
• Parenting challenges of technology
• Being an example of a good digital citizen
• Ways to improve digital citizen conversations
10. Interesting Sessions
How students are using social
media for good
• Can be very divisive
• Find ways to encourage
• Reach more students
Parenting in the Digital Age
• New technology
• New challenges
• Ways to connect and
communicate
11. Works Cited
• Kolb, L. (2022, July 29). Tools and Strategies for Developing Learner Agency. Retrieved from ISTE:
https://www.iste.org/explore/classroom/tools-and-strategies-developing-learner-agency
• Roland, J. (2015, October 7). How Special Education Technology Improves Learning. Retrieved
from ISTE: https://www.iste.org/explore/Innovator-solutions/How-special-education-
technology-improves-learning
• Wurster, P. (2023, January 5). Collecting Real-Time Data to Support Student Well-Being. Retrieved
from ISTE: https://www.iste.org/explore/tools-devices-and-apps/collecting-real-time-date-to-
support-student-wellbeing
Editor's Notes
Professional organizations are a great tool for teachers to use to grow in their abilities. The most obvious way that a professional organization will help a teacher is through its ability to offer learning opportunities. Articles, podcasts, seminars, and other forms of learning are all available through a professional organization. They also offer access to research that has been completed or is in process that may be beneficial to the teacher in their classroom. Another benefit is the ability to network with others. This can lead to job opportunities, advice for better teaching, or simply support for the teacher. It is important that teachers develop a support system they can rely on for advice and encouragement. The last, and possibly most important reason for a teacher to join a professional organization is to help others. Helping others is our highest calling as educators and Christians. A professional organization offers the opportunity to find other teachers who are in need of advice, encouragement or motivation. A teacher may be able to write articles, be a part of seminars, or simply develop a network of teachers with which they can support and encourage each other.
One interesting article that I found on the ISTE website was Tools and Strategies for Developing Learner Agency by Liz Kolb, written on July 29, 2022. This article was a great resource for learning ways to teach students soft skills by divorcing from a standardized curriculum and allowing students to direct their own learning within certain confines. If a teacher is looking for ways to use technology to encourage creativity in the classroom, this article is a great resource.
From a personal standpoint, this resource has shown me ways to involve my students more in their own learning. Allowing more participation from my students will allow them to develop a voice and improve their learning experience. It also has shown me how I can incorporate more technology in my lessons. Using the games and skills that the article mentioned will greatly increase the amount of technology I am able to incorporate in my lessons. Also, the article showed me ways to focus my teaching and improve a very important part of a students learning.
The students who would benefit most from the application of this resource are ones that struggle in a standardized or rigid classroom environment. Also, students who are having difficult with learner agency and finding ways to participate fully in their learning will show improvement. Lastly, those students who thrive in a technology driven classroom will find that the added technology will greatly improve their learning experience.
Another great resource thought ISTE is the article How Special Education Technology Improves Learning by Jennifer Roland published on October 7, 2015. This article will teach educators how to incorporate technology successfully into lessons for students with special needs. It will also show how to use technology to improve the learning experience of students with special needs. Lastly, it will give a teacher great ideas on different programs and tips on how to differentiate instruction when teaching students with special needs. These classrooms often prove to be the most difficult to maneuver, but this article will be a great resource for anyone looking to improve their abilities in that area.
I will use the information from this article to improve the use of technology in situations where I have a student with special needs. This article gave me many sources of improvement in my application of technology in a scenario such as that. I was also able to find programs or methods of applying technology that I will be able to use to better communicate and teach students with learning disabilities.
Any student with learning disabilities that struggles with written or oral teaching will benefit from the teacher's application of this article. This article will allow those students to use technology more effectively. It will also help students with learning disabilities who are delayed to catch up to their peers and become more successful.
The last source that I will be discussing that shows how a teacher can benefit from being part of a professional organization like ISTE is the article Collecting Real-Time Data to Support Student Well-Being by Paul Wurster, published on January 5, 2023. This article will show teachers how to engage students about their well-being and tips on how to bring this topic up successfully. It will also give teachers ways to use social media to their advantage as they attempt to increase their ability to monitor and develop better student mental health. Lastly, it will show teachers how to target lessons to focus on student mental health and make it a point of emphasis.
This resource has shown me ways to use social media to my advantage as I look to improve the mental health of my students. The information I gain from social media will allow me to target certain students with preventative care and hopefully improve their well-being. It will also allow for more real time and up to date information that will greatly improve the value of the information I gain about my students.
The students who will benefit most from what is taught in this resource are those who are in the crucial social developmental years of middle school. Often these students struggle with mental health and self worth and become socially fatigued. This leaves these students vulnerable and susceptible to low self esteem and poor well-being. If I apply the lessons taught in this article, I will be able to more effectively improve my student's mental health.
The latest ISTE EdTech Conference I was able to find was the DigCit Connect held online on October 22, 2022. This conference focused on students and parents as digital citizens. The speakers spoke at length about how students can use their online presence for good, as well as the challenges that teachers and parents face with new digital technology. The speakers also had sessions on how to be a better digital citizen, and how teachers can improve their presentation and conversation around being a good digital citizen.
As I looked through all the sessions offered at the conference, I was most interest in two. The first was on how students can use social media for good. Social media has a stigma around it as it is often use for the wrong reasons. People use it to be divisive and degrade and make fun of others. I would like to hear a perspective on how it can be used to instead encourage others. I think learning more about positive ways to use social media would lead to me being able to reach more students.
The second session was the one on parenting in a digital age. I find this interesting as a teacher and a parent because it is often difficult to keep up with the latest technology. This presents new challenges on an almost daily bases as I try to sort through new technology and find out how I can use it for good and what the dangers of it are. I also believe that if I understand more how to parent in a digital age it will allow me to communicate and connect with my children and my students on a better level.