Strand:
Learning
Purpose/objective of Intelligence Online
The goal of IO is to provide educators with the knowledge, tools and support necessary to integrate teaching, learning and technology. Introducing new technologies should never be about pouring old wine into new bottles. Students must be given the opportunity to think in compelling ways each time they pick up a digital tool. In a general sense, technology should allow students to do things at a level of complexity and sophistication impossible without a computer. It should allow them to create, not simply consume and reproduce knowledge. And technology use in school should have more in common with students' out-of-school experiences with digital environments than with digital textbooks and worksheets.
Teaching to accomplish these goals requires a commitment to inquiry-based learning, and teachers who think differently about curriculum, teaching and learning. The Galileo Educational Network is a professional development and research organization with proven success in creating fundamental changes to teaching, learning and staff development that information and communications technology both requires and enables. Providing professional development both onsite and online through an innovative professional development service called IO, Galileo Network is assisting teachers make necessary changes to their professional practice.
Depending on your perspective, IO either stands for Intelligence Online or it is one of the moons of Jupiter discovered by Galileo. IO guides teachers through an expert process to develop and refine environments where their students learn with technology as opposed to learn about technology.
Dr. Sharon Friesen
Dr. Patricia Clifford
Candace Saar
Brenda Gladstone (primary contact)
Galileo Educational Network
Education Tower #846, 2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, AB CANADA T2N 1N4
Ph: 403-220-8942
Fax: 403-210-8111
Email: gladston@ucalgary.ca
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