Embed Size (px)
DESCRIPTION
This presentation was delivered at the European Conference in E-learning, University of Groningen, 25-26 October 2012 by Anna Gruszczynska and Richard Pountney
Citation preview
Digital Futures in Teacher Education: Exploring Open Approaches towards Digital Literacy
Anna Gruszczynska,
Guy Merchant
Richard Pountney
Sheffield Hallam University
Research questions
ContextThe Open Education Resources (OER) movement (2008-) and the release of content for Higher Education (HE)
Key questions• What is the relationship between Open Educational Resources
and digital literacy within professional development for teachers?
• What understandings of digital literacy and openness emerge through a reflexive approach in project methodology?
Frameworks for digital literacy
• Engagement with existing frameworks (JISC, 2011)• Digital literacy as a continuum between the purely
social and the purely technological • Move from the singular ‘literacy’ to the plural
‘literacies’ to emphasise the sheer diversity of existing accounts (Lankshear and Knobel, 2008).
• Digital literacies as "the constantly changing practices through which people make traceable meanings using digital technologies" (Gillen and Barton, 2010).
• Critique of the concept of digital natives (Bennet et al. 2008)
DeFT Project
Local teachers and pupils, teacher educators and teacher educations students involved in:• sharing and developing good practice in
teaching• understanding more about digital
literacy• developing guidance on Open Academic
Practice and Open Educational Resources in the school and university context
Project outputs will be shared via an open textbook (pulling together case studies and supporting resources) and the "Digital Bloom" installation
Locating digital literacies
DL investigations: new avenues
• Methodological approaches: exploring the ways in which understandings around DL are expressed and shared through reflection in action
• Re-examining DL in the context of the debate around ICT in the curriculum and the removal of the programmes of study
• Exploring the place of DL and OERs in professional development of teachers
Next Steps For more information:
• Project blog www.deftoer3.wordpress.com
• Project website www.deft-project.org
• Twitter @deftoer3
• Digital Bloom www.digitalbloom.org
• Slideshare www.slideshare.net/deftoer3
• Open Textbook www.digitalfutures.org
(from 1 November 2012)
Dissemination Project:Open Practice in International Teacher Education (OPITE)
Contact:Anna Gruszczynska
Richard Pountney
