E-Learning Professional Development: 'Re-Envisioning' pedagogy in schools

In search of ‘authentic pedagogy’ our longitudinal three year study (2002-04, funded by the Australian Research Council Linkage Scheme) with children and teachers in Years 3, 5 and 7 of Tasmanian Government and Catholic Education Schools is providing a rich data set from teacher questionnaires and classroom observations. The problem is to identify the variables and their relationships in the space that brings together all the intersecting interests, both inside and outside schools in relation to Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). In this paper we describe part of the research, which will result in the longer-term aim of developing, trialling and publishing, a professional development ICT related pedagogy package for teachers.