TIE that tech! Teacher-Influencer-Educators repurpose learning creatively
A new triad defines educational productivity: Teacher Influencer Educators have come to repurpose learning in ways that are simultaneously more creative, more practical, and more sensitive to the multifarious uses of alternative technologies. In an era of fracture, when neither institutions nor administrators, faculty or facilities can be depended upon, when lives and plans, curricula and course work are changing faster than the speed of understanding, the move toward specialized, technology-enhanced individualization requires the professoriate to comprise individuals who are each and all tripartite deliverers of data.
This presentation defines, explains, and questions the TIE in four ways: First, its individual elements are delineated and described; second, its new existence as a repurposed teaching-learning singleton is set forth; third, examples of its operativity as a newly needed technology-enhanced tripartite in the United States and abroad will be presented; and finally, TIE impact on the educational experience will be discussed and its future for learning queried.
Katherine Watson, Santiago Canyon College, US
Dr. Watson has been teaching French, English, English as a Foreign Language, anthropology, linguistics, and zoosemiotics for more than half a century outdoors among farmworkers, in brick-and-mortar classrooms, via television, and online. Her “French Topics” was the first totally-online course offered in California, she co-created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s first online adjunct to a telecourse, and her research ranges from teaching and learning to animal communication, with an emphasis on transdisciplinarity.
