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    Supporting Teachers’ Understanding of Innovative Maker Pedagogies During a Pandemic Through the Design of Ethical and Relational Online Professional Learning
    (Canadian Association for Teacher Education, 2022-12-04) Morrison, Laura; Becker, Sandra; Hughes, Janette; Jacobsen, Michele; Schira-Hagerman, Michelle
    This qualitative research explores the challenges involved in designing online professional learning (OPL) for teachers with a focus on innovative pedagogies, specifically maker-centred practices. This OPL was designed in response to teachers’ expressed need for support to the government mandated pivot to emergency remote teaching (ERT) during the 2020 pandemic. The research question addressed is: What are the many ways in which we create the conditions for meaningful, authentic, and respectful professional learning focused on innovative practices, such as making, in an online environment? In this study, the conceptual model considers human-centred design and Nodding’s (2013) relational practice in the context of the Ontario College of Teachers’ (OCT) four-part conception of professional ethics. Implications include that designers: (a) can enhance teacher learning by highlighting the connection between empathy, perspective-taking, and techno-pedagogical competence with making; (b) should focus the sessions on common tools, as well as transferable activities and curriculum, to support early success; and (c) design with teachers, which requires the intentional design of conditions for teacher learning, targeted supports and scaffolds for learning, awareness of resources needed, and provision of appropriate instructional guidance and expertise.