Developmentally appropriate technology integration PD » Moving at the Speed of Creativity

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Erik Byker
Useful post re: the difference between navigational and procedural learning styles and their implications for professional development re: technology for educators.

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Lennie Symes
The difference in learning styles between many young people and many older people is summarized well in what I’ve heard others term a “navigational” versus a “procedural” approach to technology use. Young folks tend to take a more navigational a

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29 Mar 08

Diane Quirk
I think this whole discussion is very important to our work with technology curriculum and the concept of technology and teaching in general. Many teachers won't use technology because they don't know all the "steps." How do we turn their thinking around instead to knowing enough about the tools to pick the right one for the learning task at hand?

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Pam Elgin
Wes Fryer's blog about professional development...excellent points

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- With procedural learners, they want to have everything spelled out in advance on a detailed handout they can follow. One of the greatest challenges in professional development for teachers, I think, is helping people who are naturally more “procedural” in their learning approach with technology to become more navigational.
- Too often (and I am guilty of this too) we rush to get teachers to the creative integration phase of technology use, when they have barely started to use the tools themselves.
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- - To make technology integral to learning, teachers must be able to seamlessly use technology tools throughout the day as they access, use and share information. It must become part of the way teachers process and work in their world. Personal uses of technology are pivotal here, in fact I am sure they are a prerequisite to higher level uses of technology throughout the curriculum. I think too many leaders want teachers to skip developmental steps in their own technology use, and taking that approach is as developmentally inappropriate as giving a kindergartner an encyclopedia to read instead of a picture book.
  - The idea of being “developmentally appropriate” resonates with reading and language arts teachers. Perhaps we should use this vocabulary when discussing professional development for teachers involving the use of varying types of technologies?
  - When you teach a person how to drive a car you don’t give them the keys and tell them to go for it. Instead you gradually scaffold them moving them from total dependence, where you’re ready to grab the steering wheel to, to independence. In a sense moving from your procedural to a navigational learner — which takes time.
Cherice Montgomery
Useful post re: the difference between navigational and procedural learning styles and their implications for professional development re: technology for educators.

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susan carter morgan
- he difference in learning styles between many young people and many older people is summarized well in what I’ve heard others term a “navigational” versus a “procedural” approach to technology use. Young folks tend to take a more navigational approach, in which they experiment via trial and error to discover how something works. Many older folks, including lots of teachers, tend to be more fearful about technology use and take a more procedural approach. With procedural learners, they want to have everything spelled out in advance on a detailed handout they can follow. One of the greatest