This session took a new look at how professional development should be run at school. According to the presentation, teachers learn better from technology PD when their learning experience takes place close to the classroom (as opposed to workshops held in removed environments). The main suggestion given was to incorporate GenYES, a program that trains students to help teachers with tech support. By training students to help teachers with technology, they are giving new learning opportunities to students. Since they are assisted in their classrooms, teachers become more familiar and comfortable with technology. Main message: students become agents of change and not objects of change. Let them learn along with the teachers.
http://www.genyes.org/
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