Presentation at Regional Education Expertise Forum
1. Digital Futures in Teacher Education:
Open educational resources
and quality of teaching
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8. Digital literacy: as a part of ‘Literacy’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXV-yaFmQNk
9. Core Project Team
Dr Cathy Burnett
Dr Julia Davies
Dr Anna Gruszczynska (Project Manager)
Prof. Jackie Marsh
Prof. Guy Merchant
Richard Pountney (Project Lead)
Dr Nicky Watts
10. Partnership of SHU and TUoS
educators partners
Core Team Learning Connections
4 PGCE tutors SmartAssess
Initial Teacher Education Sheffield Children's
students - PGCE/BA in Festival
Education Yorkshire and Humber
10 primary and secondary Grid for Learning
schools UK Literacy Association
11. Overview of the Digital Futures in Teacher
Education project (DeFT)
Aims to involve local teachers and pupils, teacher
educators and teacher educations students in:
exploring and sharing the potential of digital
technologies
understanding more about what it means to be
digitally literate
sharing and developing good practice in teaching
12. Open Educational Resources
… digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators,
students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching,
learning and research (OECD, 2007).
Create Remix License Share
… teaching, learning and research resources that reside in
the public domain or have been released under an
intellectual property license that permits their free use or
re-purposing by others. (Atkins et al. 2007).
13. Examples of Projects: QR codes
45 Interesting Ways* to Use QR
Codes to Support Learning
*and tips …
Rob Hobson – Halfway
Junior – Using QR codes
in the local park
Jim Hildyard – Winterhill
– Using QR codes to
open out Magna
Camp Cardboard – Chris
Bailey - Lydgate
14. The school website as a teaching and learning
hub
Christine Bodin, Notre
Dame – development of
the school moodle
Kate Cosgrove Mundella
Primary –…. (also David
Hockney brushes
approach to gardening!)
15. Examples of projects: Secondary Schools
21st Century Show and
Tell & the digital
classroom assistant! – Jo
Lawson - Dinnington
Digital Videos as
Communication - Jack
Todhunter – Newman
School
16. A Jungle Hunt! - Peter
Winter - Monteney
Involving digital footprints
on Google earth; Video
diaries; e-safety issues
embedded.
17. Examples of projects: ITE
Student teachers and pupils working together – English
students blogging in preparation for the transition to HE
Teacher education CPD - Creating communities of teacher
learners Michael Payton Green – Wales Comprehensive School
Designing a Masters module on digital literacy for teachers
engaged in accredited CPD with either university.
18. Next Steps:
Creating case studies of the work in the 10 schools
Developing the shared Masters module
Organising the Digital Bloom event at Sheffield
Children’s Festival
Preparing for a local dissemination event in September
20. For more information:
This presentation can be accessed from our slideshare
account at:
Project blog: http://deftoer3.wordpress.com/
Follow us on Twitter @deftoer3
Contact details:
Project manager: Anna Gruszczynska
a.gruszczynska@shu.ac.uk ext. 6384
Project assistant: Nicky Watts
n.watts@shu.ac.uk
When we think about using digital technologies in school we might think of this kind of model. Based on serried rows of computers with a clear indication of where the teacher should stand to direct learning.
Perhaps we envisage something like this, with learners sharing a portable technology, feeling close to each other absorbed in the text.
This learner is able to crouch in a beanbag as he selects images on an iPad screen.
We might not want to move to this much disruption of the child/adult hierarchy
But maybe we can find ways of using technologies to get children to look at the planets.
And we also know that technologies are not just the domain of the young. That we oldies can join in too.
This project is about getting to grips with how new technologies are an important part of our way of living – and of negotiating and producing texts – in a way that helps us use them in our teaching and learning in formal institutions. Adapting our assumptions about literacy and what it means to be literate, as well as thinking about ways in which new literacy skills can open out learning spaces.
Part of a larger UK Open Educational Resources (OER) programme, led jointly by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and the Higher Education Academy on behalf of HEFCE. Builds on previous involvement of the team with the OER programme
Open Teaching in the Digital Age - How do we create, remix, license, and share Think about what do we mean by open teaching? What could it mean that openness is the default action of the academic – more about this later…