Things we have been doing ...

It has been too long since I last posted and we have been doing a wide range of things with the devices in the first term of the second year of the project.

Undergraduate

The UGs have had 60 devices for the first year of the B.Ed course and these have impacted significantly in the ways that teaching has been talking place in the programme. There has been a strong growth in the use of video and audio artefacts and a development in the flipped learning approach to the classroom. The course has also been experimenting with the use of Nearpod as a collaborative learning activity and in the ways that data can be collected as part of the learning experience.

Post-graduate

The new Doctorate in Education programme is using a private iTunesU course as the main vehicle for materials and resource diseemination and students are being encouraged to use this to share their own reflections and thoughts on the course. Students are also using Apps like GoodReader to annotate and develop reflective feedback on their articles and a blog and Twitter feed as part of developing a community of practice.

Teacher Education Secondary

The second year of the programme has led to three of the courses within the secondary teacher education suite (History, Science and English) becoming more involved in the development of eBooks and in the use of the devices to create e-Books. Students in these courses have been involved in the development of eBooks on coastal environmental biology and on poetry - as well as working within the programmes there has also been links with colleagues from Germany and Norway as part of the wider Erasmus+ project. Students have also been using the devices for the curation of resources as part of their teacher education portfolios.

Teacher Education Primary

The first year of the programme has seen wide spread use of the devices in the university teaching sessions with tutors and students using a range of apps (e.g. Nearpod, Socrative, Plickers) to change the ways in which teaching and learning is taking place in the classrooms and also using a range of apps (esp. in the science sessions) to re-imagine the ways that teaching and learning can take place in primary classrooms. Students have also been using the devices for the curation of resources as part of their science teacher education portfolios.