数字技术支持的教师学习:研究与项目综述(下)

Teachers Learning with Digital Technologies: A review of Research and Projects

本文在系统回顾教师知识与教师学习本质的基础上,讨论了数字技术与教师学习活动之间的关系,主张将数字技术的效用描述为教师学习中有目的的一组活动,即:知识建构、分布式认知、社群与沟通以及约定,通过对五个技术支持的教师学习的典型案例,分析了数字技术对教师学习的支持作用。最后指出了数字技术支持的教师学习与专业发展之方向。

Our purpose in this review is to examine how teachers learn, and what part digital technologies may have to play in that process. We take the approach of reviewing what is known about teacher learning, before introducing digital technologies into the equation. Teacher learning is an active, experiential process, through which knowledge is enacted, constructed and revised. Digital technologies can play a role as tools which afford learners the potential to engage with activities. We propose to describe the affordances of digital technologies as ＇clusters＇ of purposeful activity in teacher learning. After that, five case studies are presented which illustrate both facets of the discussion： each case exemplifies both the principles of teacher knowledge and learning, and the learning affordances of digital technologies. Finally, authors propose that, if we can bring the technologies into situations that resonate strongly with teachers＇ sense of professional and moral purposes, we may yet see what might truly prove to be a renaissance, in which teachers would employ digital technologies for understanding, reflection, ingenuity and creativity, and, through these, support their own learning in new ways.