ICT in Preservice Teacher Education

1. ICT in Preservice Teacher Education Shifting Paradigms ISTE’s SIGTE Workshop 6/26/05 NECC SIGTE Workshop 6/26/05

2. Getting Started Goals: • To share knowledge and experience. • To improve the ICT education of preservice teachers. • To improve the education of PreK-12 students. NECC SIGTE Workshop 6/26/05

3. Dave Moursund • Organized the Workshop. • Will present the introduction. • Will present a short section on ICT outside the United States. • Will present a section on “Futures” near the end of the Workshop. NECC SIGTE Workshop 6/26/05

4. Topics & Presenter/Facilitators • ICT assessment of entering preservice teachers. Rachel Vannatta. • “Traditional" ICT in education courses. Tweed W. Ross. • ICT integrated into non-ICT courses. Louanne Smolin. • Online, hybrid, and computer-assisted learning. Donna Russell. NECC SIGTE Workshop 6/26/05

5. Introductions Please: • Tell a little about yourself. • Indicate your involvement with the field of computers in teacher education. • Say want you want to get out of this workshop. NECC SIGTE Workshop 6/26/05

6. Some Foundational and Overview Ideas Dave Moursund University of Oregon NECC SIGTE Workshop 6/26/05

7. Paradigm Shifts par·a·digm (noun) 1. a typical example of something 2. an example that serves as a pattern or model for something, especially one that forms the basis of a methodology or theory • Example of a paradigm shift: Shifting from oral tradition to written tradition. NECC SIGTE Workshop 6/26/05

8. Some Paradigm Shifts in Education • Free, required public education. • Technology such as ball point pen. • Teaching science and scientific method. • United States Public Law 94-142 (1975). • Presentation media used in schools. • Calculators and computers. • Internet and Web. • Asynchronous distance learning. NECC SIGTE Workshop 6/26/05

9. Educational Improvement: Continual Improvement NECC SIGTE Workshop 6/26/05

10. Upper Limit Theory • In the US, scores in the 3 Rs have been stable for about 40 years. • Robert Branson (1987 and thereafter) argues we have nearly reached an Upper Limit for teacher centered and teaching centered K-12 education. • We need a paradigm shift if we want to break out of this situation. NECC SIGTE Workshop 6/26/05

11. Educational Improvement: Paradigm Shift NECC SIGTE Workshop 6/26/05

12. Some ProposedParadigm Shifts • Shift to learner and learning centered. • Computer-assisted learning and distance learning routine in instructional delivery. • Problem solving and roles of ICT in problem solving at the core of every discipline. • Students to assume steadily increasing responsibility for their own education. • Project-based and problem-based education. • ICT as one of the “basics.” NECC SIGTE Workshop 6/26/05

13. Global Communications & Global Library • Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980); Global Village, approximately1964. • Internet (1969) first four nodes. • Web (1990s). Google 8 billion pages. • Now: Global Library with Grid Computing; integrated storage, processing, retrieval, and AI. NECC SIGTE Workshop 6/26/05

14. Thomas L. Friedman:The World in Flat • Globalization 1.0: 1492 to 1800; countries globalizing. • Globalization 2.0: 1800 to 2000; companies globalizing. • Globalization 3.0: 2000 to …; individual people globalizing. • Worldwide competition for jobs… NECC SIGTE Workshop 6/26/05

15. ‘Pandit’ (Teacher) Nehru1889-1964 India’s first Prime Minister NECC SIGTE Workshop 6/26/05

16. Indian Institute of Technology NECC SIGTE Workshop 6/26/05

17. Jim Clark Founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape, and Healtheon/Web MD Corp. NECC SIGTE Workshop 6/26/05

18. A Worldwide Paradigm Shift • Continuing growth in “outsourcing” of manufacturing to lower cost locations. • Worldwide competition for “knowledge worker” jobs that can be accomplished via telecommunications. NECC SIGTE Workshop 6/26/05

19. Problem of Information Overload Reframing the problem. We have: • Problem and complexity overload. • Complexity is steadily growing. • Some is “artificial,” created by ads and the media. • Some is real and very important. • Not enough information, knowledge, skills, aids, and time to deal with all the problems and complexity we encounter. NECC SIGTE Workshop 6/26/05

20. The Problem and Complexity Overload Situation • We have personal physical, mental, and fiscal resources, including our education, knowledge, and skills. • There are aids to physical and mental resources that we can learn to directly use by ourselves. Through education and experience we can learn to do lots of things for ourselves. • There are aids to physical and mental resources that we contract to be done for us. We need money or other barter resources to pay for these. NECC SIGTE Workshop 6/26/05

21. A Race Involving: • Totality of human knowledge doubling every 5-10 years or so. • ICT systems capabilities doubling every 1.5 to 2 years, but eventually this amazing rate of growth will end. • Development of better aids to humans. • Improving education of humans. NECC SIGTE Workshop 6/26/05

22. Education and Complexity Overload • Educators do not control the rate of growth in totality of human knowledge or the rate of increase in ICT capabilities. • Teachers of teachers have considerable influence in the preparation of teachers and their students to learn to make effective use of the available information & other problem-solving aids. NECC SIGTE Workshop 6/26/05

23. End of Introduction NECC SIGTE Workshop 6/26/05