Search results for author:"Karen Swan"
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Teacher Technology Mentors
Karen Swan; Patricia Mazzer; Annette Kratcoski
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 379–384
This paper reports on a situative professional development project that utilizes classroom teachers as technology mentors to their building peers. Case study findings of participating teacher teams will be shared to demonstrate project effectiveness ...
Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology, Professional Development
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Professional Development Situated in a Ubiquitous Computing Classroom
Karen Swan; Pat Mazzer; Annette Kratcoski; Jason Schenker; Yi Mei Lin
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 2712–2719
This paper describes an ongoing situated professional development program in which teachers bring their intact classes for an extended stay in a ubiquitous computing environment equipped with a variety of state-of-the-art computing devices. The...
Topics: Teachers, Integration, Professional Development, Educational Technology
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Situated Professional Development: The CATIE Model
Karen Swan; Sybillyn Jennings Jennings; Lester Rubenfeld
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 1915–1920
This presentation will describe a qualitative study investigating the CATIE model of situated professional development for technology integration in schools. We call the CATIE model "situated" because it places educational technology experts in...
Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology, Elementary Education, Teaching Methods, Professional Development
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Technology Integration and Professional Development: A Mentoring Model
Karen Swan; Aliya Holmes; Juan Vargas; Sybillyn Jennings
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) pp. 1107–1111
This paper describes the development and exploration of a model for professional development concerned with the integration of computing technologies into classroom teaching and learning. Grounded in situative theories of knowledge and learning, the ...
Topics: Teachers, Professional Development