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Communities of inquiry: developing digital literacies in teachers and students

conference contribution
posted on 2012-01-01, 00:00 authored by Anne CloonanAnne Cloonan
Teachers’ and students’ classroom work is increasingly described as knowledge work conducted in a in a rapidly changing globalised, digital world. To enable teachers to effectively support students in the shifting contexts created by constantly emerging new technologies, teacher professional learning has gained prominence as a priority area in education (Yates, 2007). This paper reports on research into teacher and student learning of digital literacies within the context of a project undertaken by a university and an educational authority. The professional learning project was designed to enable practising teachers to engage their students with digital literacies.The project seeks to offer innovative, differentiated professional learning by combining the concept of a collaborative learning community with structures of distributed leadership and processes of inquiry learning. The mixed methods research explored teacher and student learning through online surveys and case studies. Initial findings indicate that teacher agency, knowledge creation and commitment to sustained pedagogical change were fostered through inter- and intra-school communities of inquiry. Purposeful development of digital tools, within the context of teacher inquiry, collaboration and distributed leadership, led to increased and discerning use of these tools by teachers. As a result students had greater school-based access to digital tools and teachers and students worked collaboratively to develop their digital literacies.

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Event

International Federation for Information Processing. Working Conference (2012 : Manchester, England)

Pagination

1 - 9

Publisher

Manchester Metropolitan University

Location

Manchester, England

Place of publication

Mancester, England

Start date

2012-07-02

End date

2012-07-05

ISBN-13

9781905476763

Language

eng

Publication classification

E2 Full written paper - non-refereed / Abstract reviewed

Editor/Contributor(s)

C Redman, F Trapani, K Carlin

Title of proceedings

IFIP 2012 : Addressing educational challenges: the role of ICT : Proceedings of the International Federation for Information Processing 2012 working conference

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