Members of the ICT team recently organised a successful conference for local primary school teachers and ICT specialist student teachers. ICT specialist student teachers worked alongside local primary school teachers, recognised for their innovative uses of technologies to support their pedagogical practice.
Participants went on a QR Code trail featuring a wide range of students' creative work with technologies and discussed the issues involved in facilitating such work with technologies in schools. Teachers also shared their own practice through a series of presentations featuring activities as diverse as programming and creating digital games with children to using the Wii for games-based learning in mathematics. In the afternoon the student teachers and teachers worked together to plan follow-up activities in school. The students have been carrying out the follow-up work in schools over the last few months. The conference and follow-up project has been funded by the Teaching Agency through a bid that members of the ICT team secured in January. The funding was granted to explore innovative ways of synthesising University and school-based training of teachers. Keith Turvey and Martin Torjussen will be leading a discussion on the initial findings from this initiative at the forthcoming Information Technology in Teacher Education conference at Oxford University in July.
iLearn iTeach 2012 from Keith Turvey on Vimeo.
