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the internet based teachers’ community of knowledge

case study

Ludmiła RycielskaInstitute for Social Studies

Warsaw University

Katarzyna Winkowska-NowakSPIK, Warsaw School of Social Psychology

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teachers and Internet

• low status of Polish teachers• dynamic development of IT• digital gap• teacher improvement

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the idea of the training

• creating and implementing ways of using ICT in class• free and open training in using ICT in learning processes

for teachers from public schools• based on experience in teaching IT to psychology

students – transparent technology• groups of teachers• the training as an experience of improving internal

motivation to work with pupils in innovatory way, reducing some effects of psychological burnout, exchanging knowledge with other teachers and gaining and improving IT skills

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blended learning

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the special group

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the modification

• method of small and simple tasks

• support by moderators in e-learning platform

• basic skills workshop

• integration and activisation workshop

• complex feedback

• putting emphasis on cooperation

• experience and knowledge exchange

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the implementation

• learning IT skills and software specific for mathematics

• psychological and pedagogical knowledge

• psychological workshops

• creating and implementing projects in classes

• minor mathematical projects and major interdyscyplinary projects

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the effects

• set of creative projects of lessons including IT

• teacher improvement

• series of classes with IT among small public schools

• activation of teachers

• creation of the social capital-bonds between teachers and university, among teachers in Poland, between school and local community

• emergence of informal interned based community of teachers

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future

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gains and goals

• enhance programme of the trainings

• develop evaluation

• describe psychological factors of the women teachers involvement

• prepare culture sensitive toolkit for women mathematics teachers in Poland

• publish the book ‘The school in the era of Internet’

• support ROSE

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summary

Blended learning and cooperation with academics and bussiness can help to emerge and support informal teachers’ community whose main goal is to improve teaching/learning process and to develop by knowledge transfer – all these factors may have positive impact on

quality of learning based on social change.