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Title: Enhancing Teacher Collaboration: Leveraging Technology for Knowledge Expansion Through Lesson Exchange and Annotation.
This paper explores the potential of online lesson visualization and annotation tools in fostering international lesson-centered teacher collaboration. In an era where teachers face diverse challenges and limited opportunities for peer-to-peer collaboration, leveraging digital tools for asynchronous exchanges emerges as a promising avenue for professional development. This paper will illustrate the potential of emerging technologies for supporting cross-cultural exchanges in which teachers can share insights, perspectives, and innovative practices in durable and archivable forms, thereby enriching the collective knowledge base for teaching. We share data from an ongoing project focused on engaging groups of secondary mathematics teachers in collectively refining a single storyboarded lesson. Through collaborative lesson development and iterative refinement, we illustrate how these tools transcend temporal and spatial constraints by sharing data gathered from three different groups involved in cross-cultural exchange (one situated in the western part of the U.S, one situated in the eastern part of the U.S., and one situated in Bulgaria) centered on storyboard representation of a lesson. In this way, we provide insights on how the lean graphics of the storyboard and the asynchronous nature of annotation can foster a culture of continuous improvement and mutual support among mathematics teachers spread over large geographic distances. Ultimately, we advocate for the widespread adoption of online multimedia authoring tools as integral components of contemporary approaches to cross-cultural collaboration on lessons for facilitating meaningful exchanges and promoting excellence in teaching and learning on a global scale  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2201087
PAR ID:
10618227
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Journal of technology and teacher education
ISSN:
1943-5924
Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
Instructional Strategies, Educational Technologies, Teacher Collaboration, Emerging Technologies, Professional Development
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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