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=Theme 3 Table 5 (Orange) = Implications of continuously emerging technologies for professional learning and educators

Facilitator: Carolyn Papworth Provocateur: **Sue Beveridge** Topic: Implementing engaging pedagogies using ICT

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Skills If the infrastructure hasn't been set up for things to work inexperienced teachers will give up - need teachers who are tolerant to work through bugs and then roll out after fixes. Match software maturity with teachers ability.

Needs to be shown that it can make their life easier, not harder.

What technologies should I be bringing into my practice. There is no longer a question of if to use technology.

Take the lesson from VET sector - workplace assessment for school and higher ed. Move away from the classroom.

Models of professional learning Get inspired by example. Model new practices for reluctant use.

We can't keep abreast of the change - the fear of learning. Many want one to one learning. Personal confidence can shift the way one wants to learn. Workshops are perceived as the cheaper option but it doesn't work. teachers need ongoing opportunity to play and embed

Learn in context! Needs lots of expertise and mentors.

Pre-service teachers in situ as teacher assistants/mentors - apprentice teachers ie. mainly in schools and some time in uni with mentor

Learners still have difficulty connecting between learning and what is done outside of the institution.

learning what is out there and how to use it. Educating teachers what is there.

Need to carefully articulate learning benefits for teachers.

Self directed Who is learning and who is teaching? If we don't allow the children to critically analyse content they don't learn how to access content.

System directed Should we make pay performance based?

Other Take the politics out. It inhibits growth. Censoring dampens innovation.