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1. Online Learning to Improve
STEM Learning
Barbara Treacy
North Carolina New Schools Project Forum
February 21, 2012
2. Key ideas
Online professional development and connected
learning can improve STEM education
Online learning community models foster reflection and
inquiry based approaches
Empowering teachers to create online content
strengthens teaching and project-based approaches
Technology and online learning enable innovative
STEM programs to scale across networks
5. National EdTech Plan
“Technology can help us build the
capacity of educators by enabling a shift to
a model of connected teaching. The best
way to prepare teachers for connected
teaching is to have them experience it.”
-National Educational Technology Plan, USED (2010)
7. “The illiterate of the 21st
century will not be those
who cannot read and
write, but those who
cannot learn, unlearn,
and relearn.”
-Alvin Toffler (1990)
8. “Effective professional development is:
intensive, ongoing, and
connected to practice;
focuses on the teaching
and learning of specific
academic content;
is connected to other
school initiatives; and
builds strong working relationship among
teachers.”
– Linda Darling-Hammond (2009)
9. Ex.1: E-Learning for Educators
Funded 2005 by USED to build
10 state-level online PD programs
EDC provided facilitator training,
developer training, online courses
25,000+ teachers completed courses
Content sharing across states
Learning Community model central to design
Large-scale experimental research showed significant
impact of online PD in math/ELA on teachers & students
Each state program aligned to local goals
12. State Program Example:
DE State Science Course
“Delaware Watersheds”
Created by local Delaware
educators to provide
convenient, high quality
professional development
for 7th grade teachers
Teachers experience the
assigned to teach Delaware learning activities, discuss
Watersheds, an integrated content & share tips on
Earth Science course teaching methods while
taught in member districts implementing in their
of the Delaware Science classrooms
Coalition
13. Ex. 2: Student Online STEM Courses Created
by Multi-District Consortium Teachers
15. Online learning can:
improve STEM education via project-based online
courses focused on content and pedagogy
accelerate focus on deeper learning, reflection and
inquiry approaches via learning community models
change practice by empowering STEM teachers to
share and create content
enable teachers to be co-learners with their students
enable scalable models across districts and beyond
16. The power of connected teaching
“If we want our students to
succeed in a global environment,
then we, as educators, must be
engaged in 21st century content,
context, tools, thinking skills, and assessment.
Thanks to online learning I am a 21st century
life-long learner!”
-JoAnn Nuzum, WV online facilitator and developer
17. Thank you!
Barbara Treacy
Btreacy@edc.org
EdTech Leaders Online
http://edtechleaders.org
Education Development Center
http://edc.org
Hinweis der Redaktion
ETLO and EDC Working in online learning/STEM so loved the topic and glad to be here Have a lot to say and I’m a northerner so I can talk fast..
Here are the key points in case I run out of time
Two quick stories, the first has to do with why I got involved in edtech and opd SIDEREAL DAY // LEAP Year Connected learning important
Teachers and students learning together
Teachers teach as they were taught
What do teachers have to unlearn is the question of PD; can’t just layer things on. We have a major PD question
Teachers teach as they were taught- means we have to base our PD on the core principals; but teachers have to experience connected learning; learn with the tools and techniques they are asking their students to understand
Research Learning Community Model
Example of deep learning – “Inquiry model” training important for day jobs too!
Teachers said they were better teachers b/c they designed online