IT in Teacher Education (ITTE)

 Session: http://altc2009.alt.ac.uk/talks/show/6869

 Barriers-research to understanding factors that inhibit IT practice in a fluid, nonlinear, iterative culturally complex world. Pathway is not an appropriate way to describe this multi branched space: cultural cartography or learning terrains. Communities (of practice) are the answer?

 cites Beetham, McGill & Littlejohn 2009

 CF Brown Lauder & Ashton 2008

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Sarah Cornelius describes two 72-hour SMS simulations using edutxt (http://www.edutxt.co.uk). These are small alternative reality games (ARGs), or models of social action that run in real-time.

 Session is here: http://altc2009.alt.ac.uk/talks/show/6869
Slides: http://altc2009.alt.ac.uk/attachments/0000/4429/alt-c_2009_sim.pps

 - Flood Sim: Flood control. You are the local civil defence chief faced with a flood event based on Vaison la Romaine floods of [date]. This sim was run for 4th year undergraduates for whom the phone is an extension of themselves. Texting is the primary use.

 - Mentoring Sim: TQAL mentoring training. Simulation of mentoring relationships. Older cohort for whom the phone is a convenience not a relationship. Talking is primary use.

 Both groups liked the innovative aspect of using the phone for learning.

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David Sowden gave a great presentation (session: http://altc2009.alt.ac.uk/talks/show/6869 ; materials here: http://prezi.com/-90jqrzyxcuy/view/#37)

 Caboodle, a UPortal-based aggregator of learner facilities for 17000 lifelong learners in 10 colleges and one university, provides SSO for all the VLEs (Moodle, Bb & Sakai), queries MIS in all the colleges and uses Sun ID management system to authenticate users. Firmly asserts learner is central?

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