CILC Symposium: Emerging Trends

Emerging Trends
Panel and Breakout Sessions
Action Items and Strategies

In Collaborations
Facilitator: Paul Hieronymus

Action Item:
Encourage more participation in collaborative projects through planned sharing of best practices.

Strategies:

• Blogging
• Wikis
• Talking it up with peer

Additional Outcomes:

• Ways to eliminate the fear factor for teachers
• We need to encourage more participation through the sharing of best practices both in-house and nationally

In Education
Facilitator: Bernice Stafford

Action Item:
Let�s put "best practices" out there for schools to observe, engage with and put video on the desktop of high level pioneers in education reform

Strategies:

• Partner schools one at a time to try this model?

Additional Outcomes:

• We need to do a better job of sowing rather than telling
• Teachers need to see "best practice" in motion, rather than a field trip out to various schools
• Why not have School A do a virtual fieldtrip wit School B, in which School B is a demonstrator/mentor?

In Professional Development
Facilitator: Linda Lentz

Action Item:
Use videoconferencing as the tool for Professional Development

Strategies:

• Identify Professional Development typically done fact to fact and change it to videoconferencing delivery

Additional Outcomes:

• People are resistant to Professional Development. Why?
• How to get people comfortable with technology
• Regular leadership meetings via videoconferencing to develop new programs, pedagogy
• Make videoconferencing THE TOOL, not the topic for professional development

In Technology
Facilitator: Howie DiBlasi

Action Item:
Empower students through use of creative Web 2.0 tools, videoconferencing, etc. through constructivist, PBL types of learning engagements

Strategies:

• Professional Development with technology the means to solving problems, not the focus of the learning.
• Videoconferencing for mentoring, growth discussions

  Additional Outcomes:

  • Self-directed Learners
  • Empower students wit technology tools
  • Develop the 21st Century skills:
  • Problem solving
  • Visual Literacy
  • Technical Literacy