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Abstract
Navigating through the Faculty of Education as a teacher educator in Canada is complex and complicated. Research literature calls for an intentional focus on media and digital literacies, and technological competencies, in teacher education. Program directions are confounded by technological trends emerging in kindergarten to grade twelve education and higher education. This post-intentional phenomenological research study examined moments, materials, and insights from the stories shared by participants as they revealed media and digital skills, fluencies, competencies, and literacies in their open educational practice. This research provides insights into how teacher educators seize opportunities to work through complex matters while applying technology resources. It is becoming ever more important to share expertise as practitioners, researchers, and theorists in the field of education by making explicit what is often tacit and unspoken, and when sharing knowledge, reflections, and actions. By actively thinking-out-loud through blogs, social media, and open scholarly publications, educators can openly share details of what, how, and why they do what they do. Research findings reveal the importance of media and digital literacies in the dimensions of communication, creativity, connections, and criticality within an open educational practice as a teacher educator.
Keywords:
- Canadian,
- digital technology,
- faculties of education,
- open educational practices,
- teacher educators
Résumé
Il est complexe et compliqué de se familiariser avec les attentes de la Faculté d’éducation en tant que formateur d’enseignants au Canada. La littérature scientifique relative à la formation des enseignants invite à mettre l’accent sur les compétences médiatiques et numériques, ainsi que sur les compétences technologiques. Les orientations du programme sont dictées par les tendances technologiques qui se dessinent dans l’enseignement de la maternelle au secondaire, ainsi que dans l’enseignement supérieur. Cette étude phénoménologique post-intentionnelle s’est penchée sur des moments, du matériel et des idées que les participants ont partagés dans le cadre de leur pratique éducative libre, ce qui a permis de révéler leurs aptitudes, compétences et niveau de littératie médiatiques et numériques. Cette approche permet de comprendre comment les formateurs d’enseignants se saisissent des ressources technologiques pour aborder des questions complexes. Il devient de plus en plus important de partager l’expertise des praticiens, des chercheurs et des théoriciens dans le domaine de l’éducation, car cela révèle souvent ce qui est tacite et non-dit, et permet de partager des connaissances, des réflexions et des actions. Le fait de réfléchir à chaud grâce aux blogues, aux médias sociaux et aux publications savantes ouvertes est une façon pour les éducateurs de partager ouvertement ce qu’ils font, comment et pourquoi ils font ce qu’ils font. Les résultats de notre étude révèlent l’importance des compétences médiatiques et numériques en matière de communication, de créativité, de connexions et d’esprit critique au sein de la pratique éducative libre de formateurs d’enseignants.
Mots-clés :
- Canadiens,
- technologie numérique,
- facultés d'éducation,
- pratiques éducatives libres,
- formateurs d’enseignants
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Biographical note
Helen DeWaard teaches online in the Faculty of Education at Lakehead University in Ontario, Canada, and recently completed her Ph.D. in Educational Studies from Lakehead University. She authors and coauthors papers and book chapters on teaching and learning with digital media, assessment, mentoring, and critical literacy. Email: hdewaard@lakeheadu.ca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8894-2259 Website: https://hjdewaard.ca/
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