Jedd Bartlett
Jedd is interested in and experienced in teacher professional learning, digital literacy, and strategies for transformative change in teaching and learning.
He is currently working as the iNZed programme designer for a LMalaysian professional learning programme, and spent 4 months in 2007 living in Ipoh and working with schools in the State of Perak. Jedd is also responsible for several new media projects including a partnership with Weta Productions, and the development of video material as teacher professional learning resources.
Jedd initially moved into professional learning and development in 1996 after 14 years of teaching at primary and secondary level in Whangarei, Wellington, and the Wairarapa. He spent eight years as an independent provider of professional development in the ICT, information literacy, and social sciences areas. In addition to this he tutored part-time for the Auckland College of Education’s Information Studies Centre where he developed a strong interest in information literacy.
After a three-year stint at Kuranui College in Greytown as ICT Coordinator and professional development provider, Jedd took on the lead facilitator role for the Wairarapa e-Learning Community – a cluster of secondary schools. He was then in a great position to work with CORE as the ICT PD secondary schools facilitator.
He has been with CORE since 2004, working for two years as an ICT PD facilitator for secondary schools, providing support and assistance to secondary schools throughout New Zealand, enabling them to get the most out of the Ministry of Education’s three-year ICT Professional Development (ICT PD) programme which CORE manages.
Jedd lives in the Wairarapa and enjoys the proximity to the music and entertainment of Wellington, as well as his daughters (there are usually one or two living nearby). Professional pursuits merge into personal interests in the area of new media technologies. Jedd enjoys exploring their use in education and also producing his own material in his spare time.
Publications:
The KPEC Project; building teacher capability in the use of learner-centred pedagogies and collaborative, ICT-supported learning environments. Bartlet, J., Keeton J., Norlizah bt Che Teh, Wenmoth, D. Paper presented at IFIP conference, Kuala Lumpur, 2008.
Facilitating Professional Learning; The Knowledge, Attitude and skills required for Effective ICTPD Facilitation. Dissertation, Otago University, 2006.
Developing Independent Learners, NZCER; 2005. Documenting the development of an inquiry-based integrated studies program for junior secondary students. Written while the 2003 NZCER Beeby Fellow, this book describes the Base 6 project at Kuranui College in Greytown, with a description of the professional development involved, and an analysis of the data collected over two years on student learning outcomes and achievements.
Inquiry- based curriculum integration in the secondary school, SET 8(4) 2005, Wellington: New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Curriculum Integration in the Junior Secondary School, in A. Begg (Ed.), Curriculum Matters 2005, Wellington: New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
The Connect Ed Action Research Project, 2005. This project, funded by the Teaching and Learning Research Initiative, enabled a team of New Zealand Correspondence School teachers to undertake structured, self-reflective action research in order to improve their educational practice, and develop their understanding of the various elements of the Connect Ed programme.
Curriculum Integration and the Information Literate School Community. In J. Henri & M Asselin (Eds.) The Information Literate School Community 2: Issues of Leadership, 2005, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales. An article detailing ways curriculum reform in secondary schools can be used to foster student-centred learning and develop levels of student information literacy.
Developing independent learners in secondary schools. Paper presented as Keynote speaker at the ict2 conference, Invercargill, September, 2003. Exploring ways some secondary schools are combining ICT and student-centred learning to create new models for curriculum delivery.
Developing independent learners. Paper presented at the IASL conference, Auckland, July 2001. Reporting on the development of a learning programme designed around curriculum integration, information literacy and the use of ICT.
Developing Debate In Asynchronous Online Discussions; ACE, 2001. An action research project exploring ways to develop debate amongst teachers participating in online courses at the Auckland College of Education.