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Therese Laferriere
Laval University
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Teacher development through participation in a virtual community of support and communication
Therese Laferriere
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 2272–2279
A virtual community of support and communication for pre-service teachers (TACT) connected to a school-based teacher community began as a design experiment in 1995, and evolved to devote some of its time to knowledge building (on teaching and...
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Pre-service teachers' online reflexive discourse patterns during student teaching
Therese Laferriere; Stéphane Allaire
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 850–857
This paper reports on pre-service teachers' use of Web-based environments to support field experiences, collaborative reflective practice and knowledge building. The goal was to identify pre-service teachers' online reflexive discourse patterns in a ...
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Scaffolding student teachers’ online discourse for knowledge building purposes
Therese Laferriere; Stephane Allaire
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 939–945
This paper focuses on pre-service teachers' use of the knowledge building principles when transformed into scaffolds to support and orient online discourse. Student teachers' inquiry was on teaching in a networked classroom. The use of the scaffolds ...
Topics: Teachers
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Evolution of a ten-year old full-fledged secondary school one-to-one laptop program
Therese Laferriere; Mélanie Tremblay
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 953–960
This school-based case study investigates the problem of achieving wide-spread and effective use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in a classroom-based learning environment part of a school-within-a-school program. Participating...
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Stakeholders’ Shared Decision-Making in a Context of Systemic Innovation in Small Networked Rural Elementary Schools
Christine Hamel; Therese Laferriere
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 1512–1519
This paper presents the results of the analysis of the decision-making of stakeholders in a process of systemic innovation in small rural schools in Quebec. Four types of stakeholders are present in this study: teachers, principals, school board...
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IT and the Digital Divide Section
Therese Laferriere; Paul Resta
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 1981–1986
To what extent does IT widen the gap between sexes, economic groups, ethnic groups and between countries? What are effective strategies and necessary conditions to help bridge the gap in access to technology tools, connectivity, and knowledge? What...
Topics: Educational Technology, Teachers, Digital Divide
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The knowledge-building oriented virtual practicum
Stephane Allaire; Therese Laferriere
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 800–804
When preparing to do their student teaching in a knowledge building classroom student teachers must understand enough in advance of and during their time in such classrooms for their learning and for school learners to benefit. The "solution" put...
Topics: Middle School Education, Students, Virtual Environments, Classrooms, Professional Development
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Online collaboration for learning and knowledge building in undergraduate higher education
Therese Laferriere; Milton Campos
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 954–958
There are many challenges to effective practices related to online collaboration as part of campus-based courses in higher education. The aim of this paper is to present teachers' use of hybrid learning environments to support collaboration and...
Topics: Collaboration
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Knowledge building : Innovative practice in network-enabled classrooms
Therese Laferriere; Alain Breuleux
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 2928–2930
The objectives for the poster-demo session are to present the early results of a design experiment on teaching, learning and leading in broadband-enabled small remote schools in rural Quebec. School-based participants and university-based...
Topics: Schools, Learning Objects
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ICT Integration: A Professional Development Model That Proves to be Transformative and Viable
Therese Laferriere; Alain Breuleux
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 1471–1474
This paper presents a professional development model that proved its practical relevance in our teaching and research work within the TeleLearning Network of Centres of Excellence (1995 to 2002; Theme Educating the Educators). Ways in which post...
Topics: Educational Technology, Professional Development, Information Communication Technologies, Networking Technologies, Post Secondary Education
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Networking Remote Rural Schools for Learning and Knowledge Building: Teachers’, School Learners’ and Schools’ trajectories
Therese Laferriere; Alain Breuleux
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 3167–3171
This presentation will report on ICT integration trajectories in innovative remote networked settings. The design experiment involves thirteen sites. Trajectories of teachers, school learners, and schools are here considered. Data were participants' ...
Topics: Interaction, Integration, Information Communication Technologies, Schools
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Remote Networked Schools: A Case for Collaborative Knowledge Building
Therese Laferriere; Alain Breuleux
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 933–938
The future of small communities in Québec and elsewhere in the world poses an ongoing challenge, one that small village schools, which must provide educational services of the same quality as bigger schools, are also facing. The challenge is all the ...
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Technology in Support of Collaborative Learning
Paul Resta; Therese Laferriere
Educational Psychology Review Vol. 19, No. 1 (March 2007) pp. 65–83
This paper reviews the research conducted in the last 20 years on the application of technology in support of collaborative learning in higher education. The review focuses primarily on studies that use Internet-based technologies and social...
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Teacher Online/Onsite Collaboration in the Knowledge Building International Project
Therese Laferriere; Alain Breuleux
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 2886–2888
This paper describes teacher collaboration enabled by digital platforms. The Knowledge Building International Project (KBIP 2007-2014) operates on the basis of locally based networks of innovation distributed around the globe. Pedagogical and...
Topics: Creativity, K-12 Teachers and School Leaders Related, New Possibilities with Information Technologies
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Learning to teach in a networked classroom: An enduring partnership
Therese Laferriere; Stéphane Allaire; Christine Hamel
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 2205–2209
This paper presents the results of a sixteenth-year long (1997-2012) university-school partnership in which pre-service teachers collaborated with cooperative teachers and peers in the context of the project Learning to teach in a networked...
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Teaching as a visible activity in remote networked schools: A socio-cultural perspective
Therese Laferriere; Alain Breuleux; Stéphane Allaire
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 6846–6852
This paper addresses socio-cultural possibilities and obligations related to teaching as visible when teachers engage K-12 learners in the use of collaborative technologies over large bandwidth in small remote rural schools. A systemic initiative...
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The Emerging Contribution of Online Resources and Tools to K-12 Classroom Learning and Teaching
Alain Breuleux; Robert Bracewell; Therese Laferriere
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 2478–2482
This paper presents the emerging ecological contribution of online network technologies on student learning. Significant effects of the use of ICTs were gathered from documentary reviews. An organizing framework was developed in order to make sense...
Topics: Networking Technologies, Classrooms
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Innovative Models of Web-Supported University-School Partnerships
Therese Laferriere; Gaalen Erickson; Alain Breuleux
Canadian Journal of Education Vol. 30, No. 1 (2007) pp. 211–238
This study explored how the Internet bridges theory and practice. Teacher educators, teachers, and prospective teachers used collaborative technologies to design networked communities embedded in three distinct perspectives: the networked learning...
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Collaborative Inquiries into the Networked Classroom
Therese Laferriere; Alain Breuleux; Robert Bracewell
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 852–857
This paper points to the teacher professional development practices in a networked classroom that become reality with the use of advanced telecollaboration tools such as Virtual-U and KnowledgeForum. Those tools support, extend, and strengthen the ...
Topics: Educational Technology, Professional Development, Information Communication Technologies, Collaboration, Networking Technologies
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Effective Practices in Online Collaborative Learning In Campus-based Courses
Therese Laferriere; Elizabeth Murphy; Milton Campos
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 1878–1885
The aim of this paper is to identify effective practices related to online collaborative learning (OCL) in campus-based courses in higher education. Three different perspectives were selected by instructors as conducive to online collaboration in...
Topics: Collaboration, Learning Outcomes
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Networked learning communities’ online activity, pre-service education and professional development
Therese Laferriere; Mélanie Tremblay; Stéphane Allaire; Christine Hamel
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 1021–1029
The activity of a virtual community of support and communication for pre-service teachers (TACT), which was connected to a school-based community of practice (teaching in a networked classroom), is studied. The integration of information and...
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Integrating ICT into Higher Education: Investigating Onsite and Online Professors' Points of View
Gerard Fillion; Moez Limayem; Therese Laferriere; Robert Mantha
International Journal on E-Learning Vol. 8, No. 1 (January 2009) pp. 17–55
For the past two decades, information and communication technologies (ICT) have transformed the ways professors teach and students learn. The purpose of this study is to investigate the points of view of onsite professors (hybrid or blended mode)...
Topics: eLearning, Information Communication Technologies, Information Sciences, Post Secondary Education, Distance Education, Internet
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Integrating ICT into Higher Education: A Qualitative Investigation of Onsite vs Online Students' Perceptions
Gerard Fillion; Moez Limayem; Therese Laferriere; Robert Mantha
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 2502–2509
For the past two decades, information and communication technologies (ICT) have transformed the ways professors teach and students learn. The purpose of this study is to investigate the perceptions of onsite students (hybrid or blended mode) and of...
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Global Perspectives on Trends, Issues and Challenges in E-Learning for Teacher Development
Paul Resta; Therese Laferriere; Alain Breuleux; Niki Davis
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 2234–2240
The panel session will focus on key topics and issues related to the use of e-Learning for teacher development. The international group of panelists includes chapter authors of a new book commissioned by UNESCO entitled Teacher Development in an E...
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International Perspectives of E-Learning for Teacher Development: Policy and Planning Issues
Mariana Patru; Paul Resta; Vladimir Tikhomirov; Therese Laferriere; Evgueni Khvilon
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 1740–1743
This panel session explores the trends, issues, and challenges in the use of e-learning for teacher development in both developed and developing countries. The panel members from UNESCO, Russia, Canada, and the United States will share their views...
Topics: Teachers
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Analysing Arguments in Networked Conversations: The Context of Student Teachers
Milton N. Campos; Therese Laferriere; Judith M. Lapointe
Canadian Journal of Higher Education Vol. 35, No. 4 (2005) pp. 55–84
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the method of meaning implication discourse analysis can be applied in the context of online collaborative reflective practice of student teachers. The method was developed to identify knowledge...
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The Use of E-Learning for Teacher Development: Global Perspectives on Trends, Issues and Challenges
Paul Resta; Mariana Patru; Therese Laferriere; Niki Davis
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 1816–1818
The panel session will focus on key topics and issues related to the use of e-Learning for teacher development. The international group of panelists includes chapter authors of a new book commissioned by UNESCO entitled Teacher Development in an E...
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Knowledge building for teacher education and professional development: The opportunity and challenges of innovation, Part 2
Therese Laferriere; Mary Lamon; Clare Brett; Nobuko Fujita; Stephane Allaire
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 928–932
Moving beyond best practice is the thrust of the symposium that we suggest, one that is reflective of how teacher educators can take advantage of theoretical advances supported by new digital tools to better the learning environment that they create ...
Topics: Teachers
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Integrating Information and Communication Technologies into Higher Education: Investigating Onsite and Online Students' Points of View
Gerard Fillion; Moez Limayem; Therese Laferriere; Robert Mantha
Open Learning Vol. 24, No. 3 (November 2009) pp. 223–240
For the past two decades, information and communication technologies (ICT) have transformed the ways professors teach and students learn. The purpose of this study is to investigate the points of view of onsite students (blended or hybrid mode) and...
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Integrating ICT into Higher Education: A Quantitative Investigation of Onsite vs Online Students' Perceptions
Gerard Fillion; Moez Limayem; Therese Laferriere; Robert Mantha
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 2510–2517
For the past two decades, information and communication technologies (ICT) have transformed the ways professors teach and students learn. The purpose of this study is to investigate the perceptions of onsite students (hybrid or blended mode) and of...
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Emerging E-Trends and Models in Teacher Education and Professional Development
Therese Laferriere; Mary Lamon; Carol K. K. Chan
Teaching Education Vol. 17, No. 1 (March 2006) pp. 75–90
With the advent of the knowledge era, teacher education needs to prepare teachers to face the changing technological contexts and to model pedagogies and tools for better forms of learning. Despite much enthusiasm about the roles of technology in...
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Network-supported University-School Partnerships: The Transformation of Professional Practice in Remote Networked Schools
Therese Laferriere; Alain Breuleux; Sandrine Turcotte; Stéphane Allaire; Christine Hamel
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 843–849
This paper reports on university-school partnerships that support the renewal and enrichment of the school learning environment in remote rural areas in an educational reform context. The design experiment, which is now in its Phase III, involved...
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Coconstruction of knowledge in the online/onsite activity of elementary and secondary classrooms: A comparative study
Jacques Bordage; Therese Laferriere; Fernand Gervais; Frédéric Legault; Martine Peters
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 1041–1044
This research paper examines the coconstruction of knowledge in three different school contexts. Two of these contexts used collaborative technologies (verbal/written) to foster coconstruction of knowledge within and between classrooms. Over twenty...
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Engaging the conversation with stakeholders on an expansive definition of e-learning
Paul Resta; Mariana Patru; Alain Breuleux; Therese Laferriere; Niki Davis
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 2470–2474
The panel session will introduce a new UNESCO book entitled Teacher Development in an E-Learning Age: A Policy and Planning Guide. The international group of panelists includes chapter authors. They will present the four strands that constitute the...
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Developing and Researching the International Dimension in Teacher Education and Technology: A SITE Invited Panel.
Therese Laferriere; Niki Davis; Bridget Somekh; Wim Veen; Jerry Willis
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 860–865
SITE'00's theme is building bridges among professional associations so it is only right that one the panels should look at the joys and challenges of developing and researching an international dimension in teacher education. The panelists come from ...
Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology, Culture, Information Communication Technologies
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Infrastructure Support for Boundary Crossing and Teacher Professional Development: An Activity Theory Perspective
Therese Laferriere; Alain Breuleux; Allaire Stéphane; Christine Hamel; Sandrine Turcotte
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 892–895
We apply cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) to analyze an enduring university-school-government (SUNG) partnership. Teacher professional development was the result of shifts in action resulting in the co-design of collaborative learning...
Topics: Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Technology Leadership, New Possibilities with Information Technologies
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Information Technology in Education Worldwide, Part 2
Joke Voogt; Gerald Knezek; Therese Laferriere; Paul Resta; Cathleen Norris; Elliot Soloway; Tjeerd Plomp
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 2078–2079
This symposium will feature selected topics from the International Handbook of Information Technology in Education – a work which will be composed of 80-100 chapters in 2 volumes when published by Springer in 2007. During the first hour of the...
Topics: Educational Technology
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Sustainability and Scalability in Educational Technology Initiatives: Research-Informed Practice
Dale S. Niederhauser; Sarah K. Howard; Joke Voogt; Douglas D. Agyei; Therese Laferriere; Jo Tondeur; Margaret J. Cox
Technology, Knowledge and Learning Vol. 23, No. 3 (2018) pp. 507–523
Although a positive impact of technology interventions on educational practice and student outcomes has been shown in many previous research settings, the use of technology in classrooms and schools is still often superficial and not meeting the...
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Technology Enhanced Quality Learning for All
Joke Voogt; Gerald Knezek; Ferial Khaddage; Therese Laferriere; Paul Resta; Peter Albion; Punya Mishra; Petra Fisser; Mike Searson; Mike Spector; Kwok Wing Lai; David Gibson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 1312–1314
EduSummIT is a global community of policy-makers, researchers, and educators working together to move education into the digital age. The fourth EDUsummIT in 2015 will take place in Bangkok, Thailand, in close connection with the UNESCO Bangkok....
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Digital Divide and International Research and Development in Information Technology and Teacher Education, Part 2
Therese Laferriere; Paul Resta; Niki Davis; Robert Mclaughlin; Michael Orey; Geoffrey Shakwa; Todd Malone; Hilary Wilder; Ian Gibson; Sally Beisser; Ann FitzGibbon; Eileen Brennan Freeman; Jose Aires Castro-Filho; Joke Voogt; Gerald Knezek; Connie Hargrave
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 746–748
The maturing research and development foci of SITE's International Committee have an ethical dimension. Comparative research and international collaboration are a healthy way, facilitated by communication technologies, to increase diversity within...
Topics: Digital Divide
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The International Handbook Summit Call to Action for Learning with Technology in the 21st Century: Next Steps, Part 2
Joke Voogt; Gerald Knezek; Chris Dede; Paul Resta; Mike Searson; Ann Thompson; Therese Laferriere; David Gibson; Margaret Riel; Renate Schulz-Zander; Rhonda Christensen; Kwok Wing Lai; Niki Davis; Rowland Baker; Ian Gibson; Don Knezek
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 2413–2415
The International Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education (Voogt & Knezek, 2008) provides researchers, policy makers and practitioners with an integrated and detailed overview of this complex field. One of the important ...
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Digital Divide and International Research and Development in Information Technology and Teacher Education, Part 1
Therese Laferriere; Paul Resta; Niki Davis; Robert Mclaughlin; Michael Orey; Geoffrey Shakwa; Todd Malone; Hilary Wilder; Ian Gibson; Sally Beisser; Ann FitzGibbon; Eileen Brennan Freeman; Jose Aires Castro-Filho; Joke Voogt; Gerald Knezek; Connie Hargrave
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 743–745
The maturing research and development foci of SITE's International Committee have an ethical dimension. Comparative research and international collaboration are a healthy way, facilitated by communication technologies, to increase diversity within...
Topics: Digital Divide