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Enhanced practice through connectivity to digital technologies and information Dr Nick Kelly

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Enhanced practice through connectivity to digital technologies and information

Dr Nick Kelly

The Opportunity

• Supporting practice:TeachersFarmers

• Smartphone penetration doubled since 2011

• National Broadband Network

Community knowledge-sharing

• StackOverflow: 5 million questions in 5 years• IT industry: learn from it• Open source

Teachers helping teachers

The problem

• >20% attrition• Rural teacher shortage• STEM teacher shortage• Current school-based

support

• Beginning teachers want:• collegial support• continuity

Who we are

Teacher educators Learning analytics experts Agricultural educators Agricultural engineers Economists Developers

Know, build, analyse

The approach

• Develop prototype• Online, mobile• Community knowledge-sharing

• Partner with teacher educators• Queensland College of Teachers• Griffith University• Sydney University

• Pilot• >1000 BEd students 2014

• Analyse• Build national network

Teachers helping teachersFarmers helping farmers

Regional connectivity through communityknowledge-sharing