Exploring open approaches towards digital literacy
- 1. Digital Futures in Teacher Education: Exploring Open Approaches towards Digital Literacy Anna Gruszczynska, Guy Merchant Richard Pountney Sheffield Hallam University
- 3. Research questions Context The 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?
- 4. 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)
- 5. 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
- 7. 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
- 8. Next Steps For more information: Dissemination Project: • Project blog Open Practice in www.deftoer3.wordpress.com International Teacher • Project website Education (OPITE) www.deft-project.org • Twitter @deftoer3 • Digital Bloom Contact: www.digitalbloom.org Anna Gruszczynska • Slideshare a.gruszczynska@shu.ac.uk www.slideshare.net/deftoer3 Richard Pountney • Open Textbook r.p.pountney@shu.ac.uk www.digitalfutures.org (from 1 November 2012)