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Richard and Guy's conversation re: 8 December meeting

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This page captures a conversation between RP and GM which outlines principles of methodology for the 8 December project meeting

 

This is a representation of the DeFT model that we propose to use on the day. The actual scribblings we made are here

 

This can be summarised as 1 goal and 3 foci each with a leading question:

 

Project Goal:    Produce an Open Textbook on Digital Literacy
Group  Focus  Leading Question 
Tutors (SHU and TUOS) and selected students  Module design and piloting materials for teacher education  What approaches and resources could help to move practice on? 
Schools and selected young people  Case Study material for Open Educational Resources (OER) / Digital Literacy  What sort of examples would help new or developing teachers? 

Creative Partners

Helping schools, helping us

How might partners support the development and capture of innovative practice

 

The project evaluator Julia Gillen will offer formative feedback to the group.

 


below are notes and discussion about this:

 

metaphor of a membrane which also tethers the three elements/three partners:

 

1.PGCE tutors - the question to ask: what approaches and resources could help move practice on? this is an area where JD/CB interact with the tutors.  Also, an opportunity for them to share what they can offer (in terms of developing/reviewing resources) and to share how they will build this into the year.

 

2. teachers: what sort of examples of practice would help new or developing teachers? issues around ILF legacy. What is the relationship between PGCE students and this group - are the students interacting primarily with the teachers (being taught/led by the teachers) See comments below.

 

3. creative advisers: will facilitate the work with the teachers, support them in capturing the development of their practice (see also briefings for creative partners: Briefing for Richard Johnson.doc more to be included)

 

A space to pull all these three constituencies together will be a project wiki (separate from this one, which works more as a project management space), I don't think we should do ......during the day we could introduce the wiki as a shell for the open textbook - see proposed structure - structure of "uber-wiki" I think this will just confuse everyone. We just need to say that as the project work takes shape, some of the draft materials etc will be available on the web. 

 

We envisage that the day will be captured via photographs (JD) later to be uploaded to flickr, storyboarding, blog posts etc.

 

My comments were too long! So I'm pasting them in here:

 

Yes, Richard and I discussed timescale (Richard, that was on the planning sheet). Timescale and scope of work with 1. (the tutors) has to be negotiable. Anything from a collaborative student project in Jan/Feb (that's what Sarah Butler will be doing with Maltby 6th formers), to running a focus group looking at materials with BA students in June (Julia might do this). For the 2. Group - the teachers, I think Richard has added something in we didn't discuss. I don't think there should be any relationship with PGCE students - it's almost impossible to organise (although it might happen by chance - and that's the permeable membrane bit). The real focus here should be case studies. I think the teachers need to think about what it is that they do that would help students. So this could range from talking or writing about their work (a bit boring), to video examples of their practice and their pupils' work (eg Jim Hildyard's pupils talking about using FinalCut Pro to do video projects. So these case studies would need to be captured in the Spring Term, between January and April. So we need teachers' to commit to a range of case studies within this timescale, to give us their best contact details (maybe mobile numbers) so that Anna can follow-up and we need to be ready to roll in order to capture the case studies quickly. This in turn will require ethical permission and technical support on demand.

Finally the idea of the uber-wiki was mostly so that we had a space to store work as it emerges. Given our experience with ILF I think it's unlikely that teachers will do much on this, although they could be invited in when there's something up there. I don't think we should rely on them to upload stuff. They have other priorities. So I think that if, for example, we work with Chris Bailey to identify a key aspect of his practice, we need to be in an ethical and resource position to get out to his school, get situational notes and good video footage. This would be raw material for the Chris case study which gets worked on and edited and then uploaded to the other wiki as a 'draft'. When these begin to shape up then I think we open the wiki for teacher views and comments as well as tutor views and comments.

 

Guy

 

Yes we have collapsed things together in our description here and Guy is right that we need to adapt to people's timescales, interests, capacities for action etc.  I note that Anna was representing Guy's and my conversation second-hand and this translation is not a loss-less process. For example the web-space for the project materials does need to be handled carefully - and rolled out slowly. Thursday is an emergence. However it works on both sides - so everyone comes with an open mind I suggest - and existing projects, activities, personal interests etc need to be held in a dynamic with the project and its goals. This is a fascinating merging of horizons - no single viewpoint should dominate I suggest.

 

 

Comments (3)

Cathy Burnett said

at 5:57 pm on Dec 2, 2011


Given the timescale, it feels like there's a need to identify some deadlines...I think teachers/tutors will need to go away clear about what they're going to do & when)...or at least clear that they'll be posting details of this somewhere. Maybe some reflection/review time at end of the day???
They'll also need dates for future meetings (release time usually has to be planned well in advance)
I think opportunities for students to work in partner schools will depend on the nature of the project work planned by tutors. It may not be possible,particularly in primary- or may just involve an opportunity to visit schools for a day or so.I guess we can discuss this firstly with tutors and then with schools. I suspect it will vary for specific courses.
Also, where are we re-ethics approval for the project?...and gaining permissions, etc - is this something to be discussed during the day?

Richard Pountney said

at 8:10 am on Dec 7, 2011

Yes we agree Cathy. We will all be as clear as we can be.

Julia Davies said

at 10:28 am on Dec 7, 2011

love he diagram and the ideas in it! Agree re timescales - we need to get good and bad dates from teachers! (etc)

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