Teacher ed in rapidly changing environment

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Teacher Education in a Rapidly Changing Global Society

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Knowledge is changing

Technology is changing

The learners are changing

But is teacher education changing?

Exponential Growth of Knowledge

• Knowledge, both basic and applied, is growing exponentially•World knowledge base doubles every 2 years

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4Growth of the Digital Universe

The amount of digital information created and replicated in the world in 2009 = 800,000 petabytes

CONVERGENCE

Convergence of tools into a single device that enables you to learn anytime and anywhere

Wide array of tools and 1000s of applications (500,000 iPhone apps)

Electronic book readers, annotation tools, applications for creation, social networking tools, GPS, accelerometers and motion sensors, high resolution still and video cameras, etc.

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Tablet Computers

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Global Growth of Mobile Phones

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Going to the Cloud

10Online Degree Programs and Virtual Schools

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Open Educational Resources

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UNESCO Open Educational Resources Initiative

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Learning Analytics and Visualization of Massive Educational Data Sets

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The Learners are Changing: The Media Generation

Immersed in mediaThe “Connected” generation

Digital NativesUnderstand information to be readily available and free

No difference between virtual and physical world

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Increasing demand for teacher education to change to meet the needs of 21st Century learners.

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Challenges to change:

Multiple constituencies influence teacher education

Lack of a shared vision of change

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www.redefineteachered.org

18Participants:100 leaders from stakeholder groups:

State and federal legislatures

State educational agencies and certification boards

National and regional accreditation associations

Educational professional associations

Teacher unions

Teacher education institutions and alternative certification programs

Universities

Schools

Federal government

Technology industry

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Goals of Summit

Identify characteristics of a 21st century educator

Define the critical elements of an educator preparation program that produces such an educator

Identify the institutional, state, and national policy structures that support the creation of these programs

Build a national coalition to reinvent teacher education for digital-age learners

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21st CenturyTeacher Characteristics

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Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity so that all students

achieve in the global society

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Be global educators

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Work with their students to create new learning opportunities

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Enable students to maximize the potential of their formal and informal

learning experiences

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25Use the full range of digital-age learning tools to improve student engagement

and achievement

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Use student data to support student learning and program improvement

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Be life-long learners

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Redefining the Teacher Education Framework

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Redefining the Teacher Education Framework

Teacher education must be responsive to changes in the global society

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Model 21st century skills, teaching practices and technologies in teacher preparation curriculum and instruction

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Prepare teachers to work as effective members of learning teams

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32Prepare teachers to teach in blended and online learning environments

Use data to customize learning

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Growth of virtual highSchools and cybercharter schools

Data-driven decision-making

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Extend curriculum and teacher role to include both formal and informal learning

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Be a university-wide endeavor

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The UTeach Program

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Use simulations to prepare teachers to deal with difficult situations

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The transformation of teacher education will require changes in policy structures at the institutional, state and national Level

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Institutional Policies to Transform Teacher Education

Faculty Development Faculty Engagement in Clinical Practice

Competency-Based Teacher Education Programs

Funding for technology resources

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State Level Policies

Develop state shared vision State educator certification policies must support:new roles for educators new ways of staffing schools

teacher technology competencies

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National Level Policies

Create a national coalition to reinvent teacher education

Build a National Educator Competency Development Hub

Allocate funding for technology in teacher education

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Impact of Summit

State initiatives: New Hampshire, Wisconsin and California

Congressional BriefingNational Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education/TEAC

Australia Summit on Educator Development

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Contact

Paul Resta, Ruth Kinght Millikan Professor of Learning Technologies; Director, Learning Technology Center, The University of Texas at Austin resta@austin.utexas.edu

To download copy of Redefining Teacher Education for Digital Age Learners – A Call to Action, go to:

www.redefineteachered.org

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