Re: Digital support for teaching as a design science

brainysmurf, April 18, 2012

This is excellent and fits with things I've been musing about for awhile. I think we have to look at what happens in teacher education, both pre-service and in-service:

- Most teachers are successful products of traditional, formal education (sage on stage).
- They are typically "A" students in the command-and-control model.
- They are likely to teach how they were taught.
- Classrooms are often silos. They don't inspire collaboration among teaching peers.
- Staff rooms are breeding grounds for gossip and complaints, fatigue and stress. Again, not a source of inspiration or collaboration.
- Professional development (PD) days for teachers are treated as separate from the daily work of teaching. There is little culture of ongoing learning as part of the daily role of the teacher.
- Teachers are expected to know it all (or at least stay a chapter ahead of the students). What about student-centred or student-driven design?

These factors, and likely many more, do not bode well for a teacher being supported as an innovator, explorer, know mad or creator. Rather, the system perpetuates regurgitators. Not sure how we begin to unpack that, especially when seasoned folks like loewenbl above are the exception in digital literacy, not the rule. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]