Learning Conversations

The time has come to start the process off and get my prep unit for the final part of my studies underway.

I have been thinking of some working titles for some time but I became increasingly frustrated that I would not be able to sustain the depth of work for most of them.

I have had some long thoughts and discussions about CPD lately and I decided that this may be a focus some time ago.

I try to develop some themes but got nowhere fast.

I went back to one of my original papers and the first paragraph stole it!

I wrote the paper in 2001 and I was looking at how Computer Supported Collaborative Environments could support learning.

I realized some 8 years later that I was still trying to achieve the same thing and that CPD and school organizational change was at the very heart of my journey.

My thoughts on CPD that had been drawn out for discussions at Mirandamod BETT 09 where I was asked about Critical incidents in my CPD. I realized preparing some research for this discussion that My CPD is all about my belief system.

So there will be a range of foci here:

• School organizational change
• Teacher CPD
• Teacher attitude to  Technological change
• Government and best practice models

The study will focus on a critical look at the difficulties ofschools achieving suggested good practice models in e-learning.