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=Professional Development 2.0 - Issues and Challenges=

U of S and U of R need to meet new requirements and SK. Learning needs to set them...We have to have to stop the universities from sending us 'broken teachers'

Novice teachers vs experienced teachers - novice teachers focused on activities, experienced teachers know their outcomes - focused on that... how to we provide PD to all of them

There should be two networks - one secure, one wireless

Blogs - moveable type, for in division. over 300 teachers blogging. Student led - top down doesn't work, can't force teachers. Students lead and ask and then teachers develop blogs.

We have limited dollars and limited technology....why don't we focus on one section - eg - gr 6/7/8 and do a good job of that? If you only have enough computers for some students, ditch the labs and cows (carts on wheels) and provide in classroom consistent access to who you can.

Summer institute -PD by Donna Desroches - select Connaught Summer Workshop. Reg Block's jktechhelp wiki- a wiki that describes various Web 2.0 tools that are available online

Keyboarding skills are useless and a waste of time to teach - Jim has a great elevator speech on this one.

Teachers need new activities, even if their old activity meets the outcome, they need to be more outcome focused and the activities need to be different to leverage the ability of the computer - and to make the 'assessment' hard enough for the kid not to be able to 'cheat' if they have access to technology.

One idea happening in Prarie Valley - PD Acadamy - 10 days, 5 sessions repeated twice as school division is geographically diverse. Online registration - just come to the ones that you want to attend - 12 people max, it won't run with less than 8 people