Digital Futures in Teacher Education: Open educational resources

and quality of teaching

Digital literacy: as a part of ‘Literacy’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXV-yaFm

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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

Partnership of SHU and TUoSeducators

Core Team 4 PGCE tutors Initial Teacher

Education students - PGCE/BA in Education

10 primary and secondary schools

partners Learning

Connections SmartAssess Sheffield Children's

Festival Yorkshire and

Humber Grid for Learning

UK Literacy Association

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

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).

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… 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).

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

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!)

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

A Jungle Hunt! - Peter Winter - Monteney

Involving digital footprints on Google earth; Video diaries; e-safety issues embedded.

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.

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

Key relationships

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

Photo credits… thanks! http://www.educationnews.org/

technology/autistic-children-respond-to-interactive-learning-technology/

http://www.tecca.com/news/2011/01/24/avg-report-shows-kids-become-tech-savvy-before-learning-life-skills/

http://kids.baristanet.com/files/2011/10/Tech-Learning-Center.jpg

http://breakthroughlearning.blogspot.com/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gregorbug79/2483957811/sizes/l/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_biggs/215592586/in/faves-drjoolz/