IDEAL FUTURE Work Package 3 Pedagogical Model

21 When describing dialogical or collaborative experiences people spoke enthusiastically about interacting with others to either, just connect locally, share experiences, or collaboratively develop resources. “On the other hand, I believe that online collaboration with people from different places can also benefit, a fact that is important to also include a factor of cultural exchange and diversity of perspectives.” (Sp P1) “It is essential to work collaboratively with all stakeholders to overcome these barriers and promote an inclusive and equitable educational environment.” (Sp P2) “Communication and collaboration skills, such as the ability to communicate effectively and collaborate with other members of the educational team and with students and families is essential in a digital learning environment. This includes skills in facilitating online discussions, providing constructive feedback virtually, and promoting a culture of collaboration via the Internet.” (Sp P2) “Another competency would be leadership, distributed by increasing online collaboration and virtual teamwork. It will be important to develop distributed leadership skills to facilitate effective collaboration and teamwork in geographically dispersed digital environments.” (Sp P2) “I want to be well trained in educational leadership and that means knowing the techniques of collaboration and creative problem solving. In short, I want to be fully equipped to lead the digital transformation.” (Sp P17) “Personally, I would love to collaborate with digital experts and even creators of content.” (Sp P21) “And I would love to collaborate with experts in educational technology to work on projects so that children can adapt to technologies and get innovative classes.” (Sp P43) There have been both positive and negative experiences working with colleagues. Some are receptive and ready to share their experiences and materials, while others are not ready to do so and tend to refuse (LV, in-service teacher, 4 years). I would like to collaborate with just anybody and everybody and yeah. (IE P7) Just meeting people and collaborating, talking, asking questions, learning one or two new to new things, you can come back and feedback to staff (IE P2) Yeah, like it would be like working in groups coming up with like activities together that we can do. (IE P20) In addition, there was an acknowledgement of the role of collaborations in building professional learning network particularly physically connecting with people. Like you know, it's those small the connections you make with people. And you they branch out like, you know, and it gets the people to buy in. I do think that the those in person Connections and meetings are very important, so I think that they do need to be some of them at least. (IE P26) You're meeting people from other schools is important collaborating and you're building professional networks that way as well I think it's. It's something that they've kind of cast aside. Give teachers the time to and to meet others to other teachers that are bringing it into them. Schools as well (IE P5) There was also a recognition that it is impossible for educators and educational leaders to have all the expertise and collaborations and connections were important. It was also noted the role of learning in the profession was important. The realisation that in IT, you never know everything. Confidence, modesty, curiosity, foreign language skills, especially English. (LV, 9 years school principal)