TEACHER PREPARATION FOR ONLINE EDUCATION

Christopher Dane Shulby USP (Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil)

The classroom of yesterday

The classroom today

The virtual classroom

How does this work?

What do we want?

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Collaboration + Distance

The Digital Native

99% of schools have the internet. 1

90% or more of students over the age of 10 use computers regularly for

school work. 2

1 & 2 U.S. Department of Eduction. (2002, 2003)

Debate

"Students are not just using technology differently today, but are appraoching their life and their daily activities

differently because of technology"-Presensky (2010)

Bayne & Ross (2007), Bennett e Al., (2008) e Selwyn (2009) Call for a more careful and critical look at digital natives

based on facts instead of anecdotal evidence.

Are they really so different?

Rodgers (1995)

Innovation in our population

The setting has changed

The online classroom

Advantages Disadvantages

Easy access; more resources

Low-cost Egaltarian culture =

Everyone has a voice Personalized Colaborative Logs Time fleibility Community at a distance Anxiety minimalizedLessens the gap in social

classes.

Sense of isolation Lack of supportl, technical

and administrative High atrition levels Communication problems Non-academic tasks placed

on teacher Lack of education Lack of orientation Lack of student motivation New roles for everyone Academic integrity.

Brown, et al (2004); Brown & Green (2003); Buchanan (2011); Buck (2001); Davis et al (2004); Hall & Knox (2009); Husmann & Miller (2003); Lee (2008); Robb (2004); Satar & Özdener (2008);

Telles & Maroti (2008); Weiger (1998); Yang & Cornelious (2005); Yoshida (2011)

Effective online teaching

What isn't effective

“[It] isn't putting all of your worksheets online” (YANG & CORNELIOUS, 2005)

Metacognition

Autonomous Learning

Tecnology Today

GUI software:Macromedia Dreamweaver® Flash® Director® Authorware® Microsoft. NET®Visual Basic®Audobe GoLive®Photoshop®Illustrator®Movie Maker®iMovie®AviDeMux®Audacity®MSN Live®ooVoo®

Programming languages:HTMLJAVAXMLPerlPHPMySQL

Multimedia Hosting:Vocaroo®Vimeo®Teacher Tube®Dropbox®

Multimedia Players:VLC®Windows Media Player®Quicktime®Real Player®

Course Managers:MoodleWeb CTBlackboardSchoology

Web Browsers:Mozilla Firefox®Safari®Internet Explorer (IE) ®Chrome®

Web tools, applications and software:IMChatOnline gamming 3D webspacesBlogSkypeWikiForums

Online graduation prerequisites

Idaho, Florida, Michigan and Alabama require taking online classes for graduation and 10

more states plan to implement similar requirements in the near future.

Teacher preparation

The majority of teacher preparation programs offer a limited quantity of technology courses,

often times limited to one course or a maximum of a series of workshops. (Grant,

2012; Kay, 2006)

Some institutions offer online pedagogy courses, but they often consist of platform training only.

(Moodle, Blackboard, Web CT, etc.) lRea online pedagogy is completely ignored.

(GRANT, 2012).

Standards Doughty & Long (2003)

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