Teaching Teachers for the Future
About our role
Digital Learning Futures are contracted to the University of Southern Queensland to assist lecturers to plan-in ICT pedagogy into all courses. As part of a national project for all universities, USQ will to ensure graduating students have ICT Pedagogy experience and knowledge, sufficient to meet the national dimensions for ICT Pedagogy embedded in the national standards for graduating teachers.
Using the TPACK model (Technology Pedagogy and Content Knowledge), and the ICT National dimensions, the project involves
Development of a holistic auditing tool which identifies where ICT pedagogy is built into course work and where preservice teachers have opportunity to demonstrate the national dimensions
An audit of 5 target literacy and numeracy courses
An audit/partial audit of the whole program
An action Learning model for developing ICT content into the target courses if necessary
Using the Most Significant Change Research methodology, the project involves
Investigating the impact of changing coursework on preservice teachers learning
Investigating if the professional development and course development model is sustainable
Developing a long term university plan and policy to ensure all courses provide preservice teachers with knowledge and skills in ICT pedagogy.
The project also involves
Trialling the ICT dimensions
Trialling the national exemplar resource kits
Participating in a national network of ICT Project Officers
Assisting with data collection for evaluation and research
Developing resources for the project to share
We using our company website to share resources with USQ staff and fellow ICTPOs.
Our interests
We are particularly interested in
How authentic assessment strategies can enable Pre-service teachers to demonstrate their ICT Pedagogy knowledge and skills
Powerful use of ICTs in English, language development and literacy including creative ways of thinking about multimodal texts and new literacies
How ICT can connect students with a forward thinking interpretation of the National Curriculum (Mathematics)
References
The project's Working Files with dimensions described and lists - scroll to the bottom of the page
Assessment ideas in USQ resources Authentic assessment
Computer Games and Literacy - excellent references to games and why they are educationally useful as a new text for students to analyse, experience and compose. Wikki Spaces is generally a very useful educational resource. http://gamesined.wikispaces.com/English