New Designs for Professional Learning: Using a blended approach to change

practice

Deb Kitchener and Janet Murphy Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning (ABEL), Learning Connections

York University York Region District School Board

Goals of the Session• Understand how blended learning impacts

teacher/faculty professional growth• Identify successful implementation

strategies, organizational structures, and delivery systems to support sustainable blended professional learning program delivery

• Understand ‘how to’ leverage technology for innovative change in blended professional learning

New Designs for Learning: Why Bother?

As you watch this clip, think about What is required for learning/working

today? and tomorrow?

North Central Regional Education Laboratory website enGauge®

21st century skills http://www.ncrel.org/engauge/skills/exec.htm

Partnership for the 21st Century Skills

Designing Learning: for today and forward

20th CenturyLocation dependantFewer sourcesDistribution controlledLimited choice‘One size fits all’

21st CenturyLocation independentMultiple sources/ PathwaysDistribution is ‘flattened’Information rich…much of it is freeChoice – Personalized Learning

Engaging learners and preparing them for life in a changing world requires educators to consider new approaches to learning.

Blended Learning DesignsNew Learning Environments• Student-centred learning• Multi-sensory stimulation• Multi-path progression• Multimedia• Collaborative work• Information exchange• Active/participatory/inquiry-

based learning• Critical thinking and informed

decision making• Proactive/planned action• Authentic, real-world context

“Teacher education has the greatest impact on student

achievement” Linda Darling Hammond, February 2009

“Change the terms for teacher learning.” Michael Fullan,

Summer 2007

Can we find some higher ed quotes for Professional learningDEDE for example? Deb – did you get anything from Educause?

Need to change what we do if we want to change classroom practice…

Blended Learning for Professional Growth

Research Focus/Objectives• Professional learning program impact on

professional growth• Development of professional learning

communities• Changes in teaching practice• Improved student outcomes• Obstacles for adoption – individual and

system• Recommendations for system change

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Pedagogical ContentKnowledge

Technological Knowledge

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Knowledge

TechnologicalPedagogicalKnowledge

TechnologicalPedagogical ContentKnowledge

Technology, Content, Pedagogy Knowledge (TCPK): Learning by Designhttp://tpck.pbwiki.com Punya Mishra and Matthew Koehler, Michigan State University

ABEL/LC Professional Learning•ABEL Speaker Series•ABEL Webcast Series•ABEL Digital Literacy Seminar Series•Leadership Program

•ABEL Leadership Roundtable•Leadership Summit – Feb 25

•Self-directed learning - online•Independent learning•AQ opportunities•Training days – face-to-face or virtual

synchronous learning•Summer Institute – Aug 22-24 at York U

Face-to-Face

Self Study Guides

Web-based learning

Webinars Mobile Learning

Learning is:• Relevant• Authentic• Collaborative• Community• Technology• Feedback

Learning is:• Continuous• Reflective• Applied• Research-based• Flexible

Learning is:•Data-driven•Targeted• Shared• Strategic• Facilitated

Learning is:• Modular• Just-in-time• Ongoing• Site-based• Networked• Customized

Coaching/Mentoring

DiscussionForums

Blended Approach – impacting classroom practice

• Multiple learning objectives• Motivating and engaging• Allow for flexible and customized instructional design• Promotes reflection – technology is disruptive• Accessible - web-effective delivery• Provides job-embedded learning opportunities• Cost effective use of resources• Models effective instructional practice for the 21st century

learner

Professional Learning Designs

Inquiry & Critical Thinking

Inquiry and Critical Thinking

Inquiry and Critical Thinking

SummarizeReflectResearch

Discuss

Practice & observationVideo Recording

DiscussSummarizeReflect

Readarticles Onlinepostings

Expert Contentdelivery

CulminatingActivityVideo Conference

Evaluation & Assessment

Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes

1. Technology operations and concepts

2. Planning and designing learning environments and experiments

3. Teaching, Learning and the Curriculum

4. Assessment and Evaluation

5. Productivity and Professional Practice

6. Social, Ethical, Legal and Human Issues

Online Discussion Forum

Video Conference

Chat

Data Collaboration

Digital Media Creation

Access online media

ICT Competencies

Teaching & LearningStrategies

Classroom Management

Research & Innovation at York UDevelop and work within effective partnerships to deliver innovative, real-world solutions to some of today’s most pressing challenges.

Collaborative, Cross-disciplinary, Linked to Community, Innovative,

Mobilize Knowledge

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ABEL First Interim Research Report, June 2003

Teachers have begun implementing broadband technologies in their practice in ways that are breaking through the bounds of traditional pedagogies, offering their students more authentic and engaging learning experiences.

Interim Research Report June 2003

© York University

Subsequent Research Reports

The ABEL program is largelysuccessful in demonstrating:• the value of its collaborative

professional development model.• a true learning community• self-directed professional growth• sustained collaboration• sustained development of new

technical and pedagogical knowledge and exploring new teaching practices

“There can be little doubt that when teachers actively involve themselves in the ABEL program…the nature of that teaching begins to be transformed in ways that support the development of student initiative, collaborative learning, new digital literacies, and substantially heightened student engagement.” Institute for Research on Learning Technologies, 2009

Stan Video

Alice video

Designing Learning and Training21st Century

A Couros, PhD University of Regina

New Designs for Professional Learning

• Job embedded, self-directed, just-in-time

• Application of learning in the classroom, reflection

• Impact upon student engagement and achievement

Vision

LEADERSHIP

Face-to-Face

Self Study Guides

Web-based learning

Webinars Mobile Learning

Learning is:• Relevant• Authentic• Collaborative• Community• Technology• Feedback

Learning is:• Continuous• Reflective• Applied• Research-based• Flexible

Learning is:•Data-driven•Targeted• Shared• Strategic• Facilitated

Learning is:• Modular• Just-in-time• Ongoing• Site-based• Networked• Customized

Coaching/Mentoring

DiscussionForums

Debriefs

Pre- and post- workshop coaching

Weekly meetings as learning opportunities

Learning Dialogue

Mentoring

Low Structure

Learning and Training

Self-study, Central Events, Topic Specific,

External

High Structure

Learning from one interaction and

applying it to other situations

Job Embedded - Structure

CdRoms

Social interactions with co-workers

Trial & error

Communities of Practice

Work assignmentsJournals

Books

Unplanned insights from doing the work

Learning by experimentation

Job AidsDiscussion Boards

Ongoing Coaching

Learning by doing

Online Learning

WebcastStreamed eventsPodcasts

http://www.youtube.com/user/abelearn

When simple

change becomes transformational

change……

Implementing changeBlended learning, a new Approach  that prepares learners for the future

Leading Learning: A new approach that prepares learners for the future

Comments and Questions

deb.kitchener@yrdsb.edu.on.ca Janetm@yorku.ca

What is your blended learning strategy?

Problem Solving Model

Professional Learning Designs

Inquiry & Critical Thinking

Inquiry and Critical Thinking

Inquiry and Critical Thinking

SummarizeReflectResearch

Discuss

Practice & observationVideo Recording

DiscussSummarizeReflect

Readarticles Onlinepostings

Expert Contentdelivery

CulminatingActivityVideo Conference

Evaluation & Assessment

Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes

1. Technology operations and concepts

2. Planning and designing learning environments and experiments

3. Teaching, Learning and the Curriculum

4. Assessment and Evaluation

5. Productivity and Professional Practice

6. Social, Ethical, Legal and Human Issues

Online Discussion Forum

Video Conference

Chat

Data Collaboration

Digital Media Creation

Access online media

ICT Competencies

Teaching & LearningStrategies

Classroom Management

Some Facts about Ontario72 School Districts- Anglophone and Francophone- Public and Catholic- Urban, Rural and Remote- Largest school districts in Canada- Diverse student population

21st Century Learning Design

What kind of professional learning do you need to meet the needs of your learners or colleagues?

Student voices

A Problem Solving Model to inform  professional learning implementation 

Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning

www.abelearn.ca

• Improving results• Transforming practice

• Sustaining change

Higher-order/21st Century Learning Tools

Higher-order/21st Century Learning Tools

How might we…..

The Challenge

Every educator engages in effective

professional learning every day so

every student achieves.

A Problem Solving Model to inform a  learning and training implementation