Re: Digital support for teaching as a design science

Diana Laurillard, April 20, 2012

Two critical issues here:
"The main issue is the lack of time provided for inservice in methods and practises related to computer based learning."
- this is more important than any other, I think. Teachers' workload is so constrained by the external forces that drive what happens in a school, that they have no autonomy. Innovation is impossible without that. If they had a reasonable amount of protected time for their own development they could do so much with what is already around.

"There needs to be a resource that informs us of the available resources and technologies we can use."
- yes the good resources are not easy to find and it is easy to find rubbish. So with limited time available a teacher will be easily disillusioned. There has been talk in the UK over the years of 'kite-marking' or similar approaches, but I doubt we know enough to give an authoritative kite-marking that would be agreed by everyone. We could more easily give a 'rubbish-marking' I suspect! But borrowing models from other domains of user reviews, perhaps, could work. There are such resource sites, but they are not very well organised, and there is not much discipline about the peer review. This is where governments could do some useful organisation and leadership - far more use than interfering with pedagogy. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]