Jeffrey Carpenter, associate professor of education and director of the Teaching Fellows program, was involved in three different presentations at the AACTE Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida, from March 2-4, 2016.
Jeffrey Carpenter, associate professor of education and director of the Teaching Fellows program, was involved in three different presentations at the AACTE Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida, from March 2-4, 2016.
Carpenter presented a session titled, “Edcamp: The Power of Unconference Professional Community.” This session described Carpenter’s completed and ongoing research projects with Jayme Linton of Lenoir-Rhyne University related to Edcamps, and discussed the implications of unconferences for teacher education.
Carpenter next presented a session titled, “Twitter Hashtags as a Tool for Building Professional Community: A Case Study.” This session reported on work by Carpenter and Elon colleague Scott Morrison, assistant professor of education, using Twitter with their teacher education students.
Finally, Carpenter contributed to a third presentation titled, “TPACK Leadership Action Rubric Implementation: Diagnosis, Reflection, and Transformation.” In this session, the AACTE Innovation & Technology committee, of which Carpenter has been a member for the past three years, presented its ongoing work to support the development of teacher education programs that graduate future teachers who understand how to effectively integrate technology into ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ and learning.