Modernizing Professional Learning: New Findings From a Fall 2021 Educator Survey

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Presentation 1: The Cyclical Ethical Effects of Using AI in Education

Mark Schneiderman
Kassia Kukurudza
The pandemic experience has changed the goals and expectations of educators about professional learning. Attend this engaging session to understand how new survey research findings and best practices can help your school community modernize its professional learning program to be more flexible and agile to meet teacher personalized needs.

Audience:	Chief technology officers/superintendents/school board members, Principals/head teachers, Professional developers
Attendee devices:	Devices not needed
Topic:	Professional learning
Grade level:	PK-12
ISTE Standards:	For Coaches: Professional Learning Facilitator Design professional learning based on needs assessments and frameworks for working with adults to support their cultural, social-emotional and learning needs. For Education Leaders: Systems Designer Lead teams to collaboratively establish robust infrastructure and systems needed to implement the strategic plan. Connected Learner Participate regularly in online professional learning networks to collaboratively learn with and mentor other professionals.

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D2L Ltd

Proposal summary

Framework

This research embodies a research framework of discovering, analyzing, and documenting educator views about the issue of professional learning in order to inform policy and practice toward the enhancement of professional learning systems design and effectiveness.

Methods

Research was conducted through a randomized survey of K12 school teachers and K12 district administrators (professional learning directors and curriculum/instruction directors) providing a margin of error of approximately ±5% at the .95 confidence level. Survey results are reported directly as well as through cross-tab comparisons based on respondent prior experiences and perspectives, including their # years as educators, their views of the role of technology, and their pre-pandemic professional learning experiences. Survey results are then compared and contrasted with prior research about effective professional learning practices to discern the degree to which current views of desired practices more closely match research-proven practices.

A sample of 500 classroom teacher respondents would yield a margin of error of approximately ±4.4% at the .95 confidence level. A sample of 100 district leader respondents would yield a margin of error of approximately ±9.8% at the .95 confidence level.

Results

Results will be completed prior to the ISTE conference

Importance

This study is important for identifying and documenting the changed views and experiences of educators emerging from their experience during Covid teaching. We are at a potential inflection point as a result of this profound experience of teaching and learning during the pandemic, and understanding the impact on our future opportunities and challenges is necessary to determine how best to use this moment to continue to identify and advance effective instructional practice and related professional learning systems design.

References

How to Build a Resilient K-12 School System, by Mark Schneiderman and Howie Bender, D2L (2021)

Conducting and Reporting Product Evaluation Research: Guidelines and Considerations for Educational Technology Publishers and Developers, by Mark Schneiderman and Denis Newman, SIIA (2010)

Security and Communication Improve Community Trust, by Mark Schneiderman, Phi Delta Kappan Magazine (2015)

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Presenters

Mark Schneiderman, D2L

Mark Schneiderman has worked in a leadership role for 20+ years connecting policy, practice, and technology for education impact. At D2L, he curates research and strategic partnerships to support the K-12 education sector in identifying and implementing best practices. He previously held senior roles in the technology and nonprofit sectors building public-private partnerships to imagine and advocate public and school policies that enhance student success through technology and digital learning.