Share Paper: An Instrumental Co-Genesis Approach to Developing an Online Practice-based Environment for Teacher Education

  1. Chieu Vu-Minh, University of Michigan, United States
  2. Nicolas Boileau, University of Michigan, United States
  3. Patricio Herbst, University of Michigan, United States
Tuesday, March 3 2:15-2:45 PM Coco A

Abstract: LessonSketch is an online, multimedia-based learning environment that supports practice-based teacher education. A work in progress since the development of its initial components in 2008 and its launch in 2011, LessonSketch has served more than 3,000 users, consisting mainly of teacher educators, in-service teachers, and pre-service teachers. In this paper, we show how we have applied an instrumental co-genesis approach to the design of LessonSketch in order to address its users’ changing needs and their difficulties using LessonSketch. The instrumental co-genesis approach consists of multiple design-utilization cycles, each of which helps us understand how users’ needs develop and how they ...