By rdnewsNOW staff

Chinoook’s Edge Associate Superintendent receives National Award

Jun 12, 2018 | 7:20 AM

INNISFAIL- Associate Superintendent of Student Services Marcie Perdue has a longstanding conviction in the role of technology to enhance learning.

For her, it began when she was growing up and carried a little toy tape recorder to class so that she could replay the day’s lessons in order to keep up.

That belief grew to become the basis for, a popular online teacher tool, her doctoral thesis, and a coveted national award.

Perdue received the award from the Canadian Association for Teacher Education for her PhD thesis- Teacher Professional Knowledge Building Networks: Creating opportunities for teacher shared knowledge creation.

While she was researching and writing her thesis, she was also building a digital tool and online learning community to support teacher professional development.

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“I wanted to study how teachers share knowledge and I couldn’t find a tool that would support that. So I made one,” Marcie explained. “It’s like an online knowledge factory where people come in, ask questions, join a team, build a solution and share it out with everyone else.”

There are now about 800 teachers on Knowledge Net.

It is linked to the Alberta Education Program of Studies, so most of the teachers are from Alberta.

But their learning and discovery is shared with teachers across Canada and into the U.S.

Users click on a topic to mine all the tools that have been built to support knowledge and skill in that area, which might include practice exams, assignments and related research.

Once a teacher uses each tool, they build more detailed information around it and share it back out to others on the network to create ever-broadening resources.

(Gary McKinnon – Chinook’s Edge School Division)