Digital Futures in Teacher Education (DeFT)

Richard Pountney

Anna Gruszczynska

Nicky Watts

About the projectTeam• Richard Pountney (Lead)• Guy Merchant (Principal

Investigator)• Cathy Burnett

(Researcher)• Jackie Marsh (Academic

Lead)• Julia Davies (Researcher)• Anna Gruszczynska

(Project manager)• Nicky Watts (Project

assistant)

Partners• Sheffield Hallam University• University of Sheffield• 5 primary and 5 secondary

schools in South Yorkshire• Learning Connections• RealSmart• Yorkshire and Humber Grid

for Learning• Sheffield Children’s

Festival

Background to DeFT: UKOER programme• Evaluating the Practice of

Opening up Resources for Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences (April 2009-April 2010)

• Cascading Social Science Open Educational Resources (August 2010-August 2011)

• Discovering Collections of Social Science Open Educational Resources (August 2010-August 2011)

• drawing on the principles of social sciences knowledge production

• exploring tacit aspects of pedagogical practice

• exploring the "why" (socio-cultural/institutional context) rather than solely the "how" (technical aspects) of OERs

Digital Futures in Teacher Education (DeFT)

The project 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

Workshop activities

1. Sharing first thoughts on digital literacy

2. Creating our own meanings of digital literacy

3. Reflecting on digital literacy practices

Using QR codes for education purposes

Case studies - teachers exploring DL practices with pupils

Creative uses of DL in schools

Programming skills for creative learners

Case studies - teachers exploring DL practices in the context of CPD

OERs as a tool for sharing practice

The school website as a teaching and learning hub

Opening up Moodle

What are our student teachers thinking about

Digital Literacy.......and OERs?

Some insights from focus groups of student teachers from Sheffield

Hallam and the University of Sheffield

The student teachers

Photo courtesy of DiscoveryEducation.com

methodology

Attitudes towards OERs

“You don’t know what reaction you would get… can you imagine if you put it on you tube and you got loads of thumbs down?”

“we are happy to share our resources etc”

Attitudes towards digital literacy in school environment

Reflection

• Thinking about digital literacy in action

• Reflexive moments and reflexive review as part of DeFT methodology

• Other aspects of digital literacy

For more information:• Read our blog:

www.deftoer3.wordpress.com

• Follow us on Twitter @deftoer3

• Have a look at our presentations on slideshare www.slideshare.net/deftoer3

• Email us:

• r.p.pountney@shu.ac.uk; a.gruszczynska@shu.ac.uk; n.watts@shu.ac.uk