Digital Pedagogies in a changing world

Dr. Kevin Burden k.j.burden@hull.ac.uk

Paul Hopkins p.hopkins@hull.ac.uk

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Aims of the session:

● To consider what educational technology is and how it shapes learning

● To explore how mobile technologies can support and enhance teaching and learning

● To share ideas and develop opportunities for further collaborations in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)

Digital Pedagogies

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Part 1:

Ways of thinking about how technology changes the way we teach and learn (Theorisations)

In the past we have used new technologies to replicate old practicesFa

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How accurate is this prediction of the future?

In groups write down your favorite educational technology

Two questions:

1. How does technology support our current pedagogies?

2. How might technology challenge and change our current pedagogies?

Time

Space

Synchronous

Physical

Asynchronous

Virtual

Synchronous

Physical

Asynchronous

Virtual

Group-work

Whole class

Pairs Revision

Self study

Problem-solving

-Practical

Demonstration

Activity

Working in pairs describe how technology might be used to change how self study (revision or homework) is undertaken by students

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Part 2:

Mobile Learning and Teacher Training

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Learning in a Mobile Age

What does this video suggest we need to think about as teachers and teachers educators, to teach this kind

of student in the future?

The Swiss Army Knife

In your groups undertake the following activity:

Consider your own mobile device and its functions. Make a list of all functions you can think of…

Go back to your list and tick those that have an educational purpose

The election of the Pope in 2005

The election of the Pope 2013

Does it remain a sensible option to continue with existing definitions of learning or do new forms of learning

present themselves in the mobile age?

(John Traxler, Professor of Mobile Learning, Wolverhampton University)

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Part 3:

A European and International Project:

www.mttep.eu

Mobilising & Transforming Teacher Educators’s

Pedagogieswww.mttep.eu

Personalisation

Collaboration Authenticity

OutputsA European Mobile Learning Network for Teacher Educators

Planning

Collecting resources

Authoring chaptersUser testing

Dissemination

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Tools and apps for writing books

Book Creator

Tools and apps for writing books

iBook Author (Apple)

Interactive Widgets – simple programs that make books dynamic

Schools reinventing themselves as ‘knowledge building communities’

Schools reinventing themselves as ‘knowledge building communities’

Individual Collaborative

Static Dynamic

Knowledge Skills

Collecting data Creating data

Teacher Learner

Two questions:

1. How does technology support our current pedagogies?

2. How might technology challenge and change our current pedagogies?

QUESTIONS?