Transcript Writing Support

Learning with
Technology
for the SER
Margaret Derrington King’s College London 13 February 2012
margaret.derrington @kcl.ac.uk
ANY QUESTIONS…
PGCE HANDBOOK
The topic and question also
need to be discussed and
agreed with your PPS tutor
Students who do badly in
their SERs are
overwhelmingly students
who have NOT done this.
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Discuss your SER with the PCM at your SE2 school
Make sure your proposed subject and focus are suitable for the
school and that your PCM approves and will help.
You will need to access any relevant policy documents (if they exist),
interview people and collect data at the school so you need their
cooperation and help.
And remember all documents etc MUST BE ANONYMISED
AIM of the SER
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(i) to demonstrate an understanding about an
educational issue and how it relates to the
educational progress of pupils.
(ii) to undertake a small scale research project
on the effectiveness of a school policy on an
educational issue
(iii) to relate and compare government and
school policies and the actual practices carried
out in school.
Different layers
Demonstrate understanding and how
this relates to the educational progress
Is government policy in line with
the research and designed to
improve educational progress….
Or to effect some other quite
different social or political policy?
1. the Literature
 2. Government Policy
 (LEA policy)
Is the school policy in line with government policy?
Does it also implement other religious or social policies
perhaps from the school mission statement
 3. School Policy
 4. Actual practice in school
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And what about what actually happens in the school; this
needs to be discussed in conjunction both with the research
AND the government and school policies.
Literature Review
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Start with the literature suggested in the PPS
handbook
I have put some suggested sources at the end of
this slideshow…
If you find something good why not share it? On
ELK. You are not in competition!
Use the lit review to bring out the main issues;
remember they must have a bearing on educational
achievement…
QUESTION
The topic and question need
to be discussed and agreed
with your PPS tutor
Decide on your research question
 And how you are going to investigate it in
the different layers required
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 Literature
 Government
policy
 School policy
 Grass roots
SOURCES and
RESEARCH METHODS
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The Literature relevant journals etc
Govt Policies, Strategies, Politicians’
pronouncements, The NC….
School Policy Documents
Interviews with school managers responsible for
the policy and its implementation
School data, questionnaires, focus group
discussions, interviews, classroom observations,
classwork, homework …..
Research Methods
YOU MUST INCLUDE
A CHAPTER ON
RESEARCH
METHODS
Literature review
1. the Literature
 2. Government Policy
Compare documents
 (LEA policy)
…if these are documented
 3. School Policy
Interviews
Lesson Observation
Examining exercise
 4. Actual practice in school
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ETHICS
PRIVACY
ANNONYMISE
books, text books,
Websites.
Focus groups
Questionnaires
Stats and existing
data…
Don’t go OTT
DON’T combine two SERs…
 FOCUS on a research question
 USE EXISTING DATA …if you can
 SHARE DATA
…if you can
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It’s a SMALL research project and you
have 12 lessons a week to plan and
deliver…
PRACTICALITIES
ANONYMISE
 RAW DATA in APPENDICES
 DISCUSSION and ANALYSIS in essay
 One chapter on Research Methods
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 Guidelines
on Ethics (p27 PGCE HB)
Make sure you finish in time to do proof
reading AND the Q standards claim
 DON’T Exceed the word limit.
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Technology in Education
Remember it is a
WHOLE SCHOOL
project
NOT your subject
area.
Many possibilities…..
 School VLE
 Interactive Whiteboards
 Use of the Internet
 Use of mobile devices (mobile phones etc)
 Use of networking sites
 Anything else?????
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Relevant Journals…
JRTE Journal of Research in Technology
and Education
 ISTE International Society for Technology
in Education
 USDLA Journal US Distance Learning
Association
 Loads of others….
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School VLE
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1. the Literature
2. Government Policy
3. School Policy
4. Actual practice in school
Learning platform technologies are set to
form an integral part of schools’ ICT
provision in the next decade. Most
recently, government policy has moved
to encourage use of learning platform
technologies throughout the English
school system with an encouragement
for all learners to have access to a
personalised online learning space by
2008, all secondary schools to be
providing parents with access to online
information about children’s
attainment, attendance, behaviour and
special needs by 2010, and all primary
schools to be doing the same by 2012.
http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/1485/1/becta_2010_useofle
arningplatforms_report.pdf
Look at different departments, their use. Teacher
training is probably an issue. Parents use, home
use…best practice.. “how it relates to the
educational progress…”
Interactive Whiteboards
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1. the Literature
2. Government Policy
3. School Policy
4. Actual practice in school
Various Initiatives from BETT 2005 Tony Blair
Debates about projectors vs IWBs
 http://acitt.digitalbrain.com/acitt/web/resources/pubs/p
ubs.htm (Teaching ICT issue 2)
BECTA
Death by PP, INTERACTIVITY…..
The IWB itself and the COMPUTER and INTERNET that
came with it….. “how it relates to educational progress..”
Use of the Internet
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1. the Literature
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2. Government Policy
3. School Policy
4. Actual practice in school
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Various targets about broadband for schools and
for the UK… actual Curriculum Quotes
School use, home use, plagiarism etc etc
resources, searches, firewalls….different subjects
Kids’ Use of the Internet
 Livingstone
(2003)
 http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/415/1/NMS-use-of-internet.pdf
Use of mobile devices
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1. the Literature
2. Government Policy
3. School Policy
4. Actual practice in school
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m-learning
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(mobile phones etc)
He said that through i-Tunes
children were able to listen to
lectures from Harvard, for
instance, and there was greater
potential for creative use of the
technology in our schools.
"Stopping the smuggling of Blackberries into
classrooms safeguards children's rights – the crucial
rights of the majority to learn in peace, free of the fear
of violence and intimidation."
http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/mobile/jisc-mobile-review.pdf
http://www.nokia.com/global/about-nokia/people-andplanet/impact/social/education/
http://www.tml.tkk.fi/Opinnot/T110.556/2004/Materiaali/brown03.pdf
http://www.publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=17320
http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/mobile/jisc-mobile-review.pdf
Use of social networking sites
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1. the Literature
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2. Government Policy
3. School Policy
4. Actual practice in school
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Group work
feedback
PEER
assessment
and feedback
Grossbeck & Holotescu (2008)
Can we use twitter for Educational Activities
http://universitateadevest.academia.edu/Gabriela
Grosseck/Papers/503568/Can_we_use_Twitter_f
or_educational_activities
Warnings…
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Don’t forget to anonymise
Make sure it is a WHOLE SCHOOL project NOT
just your subject area
Maybe compare two subjects which are similar but
do things differently and a different type of
subject… justify the subjects chosen
Don’t lose sight of the aims… understanding about
an educational issue and how it relates to the
educational progress of pupils.
And the 4 layers….