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这个故事是8月21日在北大TEDxWiserU活动中的分享。 参加这个活动，得到很多的朋友的支持和帮助，有的协助制作PPT，有的协助修正英文，有的给出了很多建议，有的给出鼓励。这不断让我感受到社区和人群凝聚的力量。在此表示深深的感谢。 这次分享内容，是以淄博信息技术教师社区为例展开的，因此特别感谢淄博社区中的信息技术老师们，感谢地方教育机构淄博市电教馆。没有大家的共同努力，就不会有变化发生。 还有特别感谢网络上连接的朋友们，你们的正向思考的力量，主动积极的行为，是一切变化发生的造就者。 关于TEDxWiserU活动的介绍, http://www.douban.com/event/12... http://wiser-u.net/summer/tedx... |
The topic i shared is “How can we learn better”.
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It’s from 2007 I taught a course of using social tools in education.
At that time, I made a pledge on a website called pledgebank.org which can help gathering people to get things done . I made pledge because some words on that website touched me . The meaning of the words is when you feel powerlessness, we need together . My pledge was about looking help and finding people to develop the course of using social tools .
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1 年, 5 月前说:
My first pledge on pledgebank,http://www.pledgebank.com/soci...
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During that process, with some partners together, we have built a learning community called socialLearnLab.org(SLL).
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With the development of SLL, more learning communities have emerged. Most of them are built by the members of SLL. These learning communities are connected each other in some ways , So , thousands of people are connected, sharing their knowledge and experience.
The story I share today is about teachers’ learning , which took place in one of the learning communities. |
With the rapid change of our society, how the teachers keep pace with the development of our society becomes an important problem.
The key question of the story is : How can teachers learn better? |
The story is about some teachers who teach the course of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) . As the background information, there is about one or two ICT teachers in one K12 school and ICT course has become compulsory course supported by national policy since 2001 in China.
It was in April, 2009 I made a survey on how ICT teachers use technologies to support their own lifelong learning, and what their learning needs were at that time. From the result of the survey, most of them said they mainly use search engines such as baidu.com to find some materials about how to learn photoshop or flash, and so on. and seldom did they exchange materials or gather together to discuss how teaching. Most of them work and learn in an isolated way. |
After that, with the support of the local educational institutions , these teachers were connected together through some social tools such as Gmail , Googlegroup, and so on.
They became connected in this way. |
Although they are connected, you can feel obviously they show no willingness to make any change at that time. What they said most was like that:
“ICT course was not valued in school, we are not being valued too, we just do trivial stuffs on the campus, like fixing computers and the like.” “I am busy,I need to spend more time to fix computers and other electronic equipments.” …… |
Almost one year has passed, here are some changes .
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They create a great name called “稷下学社”for themselves, for the community connecting them .
They organize a team called “warm heart serving group” to serve the development of the learning community. They take a lot of active and innovative ways to do things. They edit newsletters twice per month. Different ICT teachers put the useful materials they had found on the newsletter. In this way, every one become effective than before. They never learn alone any more, but finding and sharing together . Not only do they begin to change the way to gather some useful materials they need , but also they begin to adopt a new way to discuss their teaching and to modify their instructional design plans . Some teachers post their instruction design plan to a googlegroup, and organize other teachers to have a brainstorm . In this way they work hard and struggle to improve their teaching effectiveness, to make themselves teach better. They are very different from before. They even begin learn to manage themselves in the connected environment in order to cooperate better . They practice knowledge management. They learn to summary and set some rules from best practice. For example, according to the past experience, they set rules about how to hold an effective web meeting, and so on. They also establish rules on how to discuss instructional design plan together. These ICT teachers are now creating some changes! They are now full of initiatives and creation . Although these changes didn’t not take place among all the teachers there, and although these changes are only in the beginning stage, but we have witnessed some changes can take place, and have taken place. |
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