This seminar introduce the research project Knowledge Integration in Teacher Education through Technology Enhanced Simulation (KITES), founded by The Research Council of Norway.
The seminar is aimed at teacher educators, educational researchers, project partners, student teachers, teachers, and others interested in a scenario-based simulations and their potential to combine theoretical and practical knowledge.
Choose between online or in-person participation.
Program
10:00–10:30 | Coffee and Small Talk
10:30–11:00 | Welcome and Opening
- Musical performance, Professor Øystein Elle & Associate Professor Jon S. Thorstensen
- Project leaders for KITES, Hilde Afdal & Ingeborg Krange
- Vice Rector for Research, Ellen-Marie Forsberg, Østfold University of Applied Sciences
- Dean, Martin Hollman, Faculty of Teacher Education and Languages, Østfold University of Applied Sciences
11:00–12:00 | Keynote: Knowledge Integration as an Epistemic Challenge in Teacher Education
- Professor Hege Hermansen, OsloMet
- 15 min: Q&A
12:00–12:15 | Break with Refreshments
12:15–12:45 | Partner & Practice Perspectives
- Collaborating Partner, Espen Sperlin, Indre Østfold Municipality
- Program Leader Teacher Education, Lin S. Ramberg, Østfold University of Applied Sciences
- Teacher, Matthias Høye, Haugeåsen Lower Secondary School
- Student Teacher, Anna Eriksen
- Q&A
12:45–13:30 | Lunch
13:30–14:00 | KITES Project Overview
14:00–15:00 | Keynote: Designing Technology- enhanced Simulations through Design-based Research
- Professor Robb Lindgren, University of Illinois
- 15 min: Q&A
15:00–15:15 | Break with Refreshments
15:15–15:45 | Work Package Pitches by the WP leaders
- WP1: Management and Coordination, Professor Hilde Afdal & Professor Ingeborg Krange
- WP2: Conceptual and Empirical Underpinnings, Associate professor Galina Shavard & Associate professor Maiken Risan
- WP3: Scenario Development, Professor Rolf Steir & Associate Professor Galina Shavard
- WP4: Design and Development of Technology-enhanced, Scenario-based Simulations, Associate Professor Heidi Grønlien & Associate Professor Jacob Davidsen
- WP5: Exploring the Use of Technology-enhanced, Scenario-based Simulation for Knowledge Integration, Associate Professor Ilka Nagel & Associate Professor Maiken Risan
- WP6: Communication and Dissemination, Professor Hilde Afdal and all
- Q&A
15:45–16:15 | Reflections from Recruitment Positions
- PhD candidates Kristina Andreassen og Veronica Knigge
- PostDoc, Morgane Domanchin
- Q&A
16:15–16:45 | Advisory Board Roundtable
- Professor Hege Hermansen, OsloMet
- Professor Robb Lindgren, University of Illinois
- Professor Pentti Haddington, University of Oulu
- Professor Halla Bjørk Holmarsdottir, OsloMet and Østfold University of Applied Sciences
- Q&A
16:45–17:00 | Closing the Seminar
Participation and registration
Online or in-person participation.
Register for the seminar here within April 8th. Online participants will receive a Zoom link to the seminar on April 12th.
Members of The Scientific Advisory Board
Pentti Haddington, Ph.D. is a Professor of English language and interaction at the University of Oulu, Finland, and Adjunct Professor (Docent) in Multimodal Interaction Analysis at the University of Jyväskylä. His research focuses on how people talk and interact in real-life and digital environments, using video-based conversation analysis to study everyday social activities, crisis communication, and multimodal interaction.
Hege Hermansen is Professor of Education at the Centre for the Study of Professions at OsloMet. Her research interests include knowledge in professional education and work, program design in professional education, the juridification of higher education, and the interrelationships between professional knowledge, autonomy and responsibility.
Robb Lindgren is the Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Educational Psychology and Curriculum & Instruction in the College of Education at University of Illinois. His research focuses on how people learn with interactive and immersive digital technologies. Dr. Lindgren is also the Interim Director of the Center for Research and Innovation in Technology-Enhanced Learning (ITEL). The ITEL Center is the research hub on the Illinois campus for the design of emerging technologies to address critical issues in education.
Halla Bjørk Holmarsdottir is a Professor of Education at OsloMet and has a secondary position at Østfold University of Applied Sciences. Her work focuses on interdisciplinary research related to children, young people and digital technologies, teacher education, and educational equity. She has long experience being the principle investigator of larger projects such as the European research project funded by Horizon 2020, titled The Impact of Technological Transformations on the Digital Generation (DigiGen).
ReflectionStudio Launch 14th of April!
One of the key sites where KITES will develop and test simulations is the ReflectionStudio at OsloMet, a dedicated environment designed to support innovative teaching practices, interdisciplinary collaboration, and research-based experimentation. The 14th of April you are invited to an open launch seminar.