Notes from visit to The Curry School of Education visit, Univ
of Virginia, 2 May 2002
10:00 John
Teahan-----Manager, Center for Technology and Teacher Education
Mainly focused on helping faculty and working with grants
2 big grants: NCLI, part of it is online journal, other part
is getting association leaders together for standardizing teacher ed and teacher
prep
Getting with 4 content area organizations, got them to have
technology strands
our center is content first, technology second
Glenn Bull is an IT person,
- article in latest issue of Leading with Technology and Learning
is excellent
One of Zahrl Schoeny's specialities is helping admins to infuse
technology
- eTiger program specifically deals with infusing techonlogy
in schools thru administrators
UVAs PT3 grant
www.citejournal.org
is one part
- 2nd volume, 2nd issue now
trying to build community among well known and innovators in
the field
- finding places where they can communicate and discuss
Also developing digital scholarship portal, integrates print
equivalent (journal of technology and teacher education) and cite journal
- developing graphical interface and handing it off to other
IT part
- will be open to all
Are using Malcom Gladwell's book "The Tipping Point"
as they look at handhelds
- when will handheld technology reach a point that it gets
widely adopted
- article in Learning and Leading "The Technological Tipping
Point"
Last conference focused on what teachers will need to do to
prepare for future technologies
content first, technology second
John's background
- got Masters in counseling from UVA Curry School
- then was a dorm counselor, got into tech and web design in
'old days of mid-90s'
- was looking for something else in higher ed to do with technology
- has been here 1.5 years
- lots of grants admin
PT3 has about an 8 member parter consortium
- digital resource teams
- Virginia Center for Digital History
-- http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/
-- Like perseus project at TUFTS
-- adapting lesson plans from this resource to make it applicable
for K-12
VCDH are standards for the state
- grad students at curry are developing lessons that can be
used by K-12 like:
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/teacherlink/content/social/vcdh_lessons/
Main grant purpose is identifying digital resources like Intel
microscope or VA Center for Digital History
- taking any digital tech resource and figuring out how it
would be used / work in K-12
- sharing this info with consortium
- have the resource and several adaptation and applicability
for K-12
Are moving now into open source education
- creating things for teachers that are truly open source,
teacher can take it and customize it to fit their needs
- are working with concent of an open course national resource
- want to partner up with science and math focused school
Book 'the future of ideas: the fate of the commons in a connected
world' by Lawrence Lessig
Glen is creating 'Poetry Forge' resource
PT3 at Curry is one of two main grants, probably the
Has another teach the teachers grant in Bermuda, teaching secondary
teachers how to integrate technology in the curriculum
- everything from basic MS Office skills to using a graphing
calculator in the classroom
NTLI (National Technology Leadership Initiative)