School Tech: listening to and acting on learner voice (2015)
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Slides from my keynote at the ELESIG summer symposium on 'Digital Journeys'. ELESIG is a community of researchers and practitioners from higher and further education who are involved in investigations of learners' experiences and uses of technology in learning. ELESIG members work together to share knowledge and practice and develop a shared repertoire of resources which will be of benefit to the community and the sector: http://elesig.ning.com/
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School Tech: listening to and acting on learner voice (2015)
- 1. School Tech: listening to & acting on learner voice @josiefraser 3 JUNE 2015
- 2. Building Schools for the Future • £340 million capital build programme • 23 secondary school sites in Leicester City - including Secondary Behavioural Support Service, SEN, Children’s Hospital School • Approximately 2,000 staff supporting 20,000 learners
- 3. The role of technology Community based educational transformation, supported through strategic investment: •Design and implementation •Operations •Staff and community development
- 5. “Our research indicated disappointedly low expectations of staff competency with the digital. This supports recommendations…that teaching staff in particular need to be supported in developing their digital practices. This has to go beyond the functional skills approach of the schools sector by providing professional development opportunities around the digital and teaching practice and not simply training around specific software or hardware.” Incoming expectations of the digital environment formed at school David White and Joanna Wild (2014) JISC
- 6. Learner Voice in Leicester City: Learnin • Year long initiative reporting 2012 • 3 Youth Engagement Officers • 400+ 11-19 year olds • 2-4 workshops per school • Focus groups, interviews, game play, multimedia activities
- 7. Learners priorities: The school environment
- 8. 1. More indoor social space 2. Better designed library/Learning Resource Centre spaces 3. Comfortable Chairs 4. Better design – esp. colour 5. Allotments 6. Sustainability features 7. Nicer Toilets
- 9. 8. Improved Canteen 9. Flexible learning spaces 10. Variety in teaching methods 11. More student input 12. More flexible use of technology 13. Choice and variety of subjects
- 11. 1. Faster computers 2. More creative use by staff 3. Student led use of technology 4. Internet access – schools, city centre, local communities 5. Home access
- 12. 6. Collaboration across schools & countries 7. Access to local & national decision makers via social media 8. Young people only spaces in city centre 9. Teachers who can support with social tech 10. A say in school filtering and blocking policies
- 13. Characterising the tech priorities • Flexibility and autonomy • Not device, service or software specific • Creativity & social engagement • Equality and empowerment • Staff and student digital literacy
- 14. JISC Digital Student FE challenges • A robust, flexible digital environment • A relevant digital curriculum • Empower students to develop their digital environment • An inclusive digital student experience • Coherent Bring Your Own policies • Staff and student digital literacies • Strategic approach to developing the student digital experience How are you enhancing your FE students’ digital experience? Sarah Knight (2015) JISC
- 15. Meeting learners needs: 1. Moving from centralised provision to flexible access
- 16. • Improving infrastructure & wireless connectivity • Into the cloud – services and storage • 1:1/BYOD
- 17. Meeting learners needs: 2. Supporting digital literacy
- 18. Technical skills + critical thinking + social engagement = digital literacy
- 21. Impact • Significant increased focus on school staff digital literacy – individual, departmental & leadership level • High impact innovation projects • Knowledge transfer & collaboration • Increased individual & strategic use of social media & public (rather than open) practice
- 22. thank you! @josiefraser School Tech: listening to & acting on learner voice (2015) by Josie Fraser is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 Title photo credit: Sharing Music by Ed Yourdon shared under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
- 23. References DigiLit Leicester: 2014 Survey Results Lucy Atkins, Josie Fraser & Richard Hall (2014) Leicester City Council Students' experiences and expectations of the digital environment Helen Beetham and David White (2014) JISC Learner Voice in Leicester City: Learning Technology Priorities Josie Fraser and Grace Sykes (2012) Leicester City Council How are you enhancing your FE students’ digital experience? Sarah Knight (2015) JISC Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report (2014) Ofcom Incoming expectations of the digital environment formed at school David White and Joanna Wild (2014) JISC
Editor's Notes
- The immigrants/native dichotomy has however persisted in its popularity. ‘Digital native’ recently made it on to the shortlist for the Chambers Dictionary word of the year and the nostalgic spectre of digital immigrants is periodically raised again. I’d argue that this popularity in part is down to its easy adaptability into a blunt metaphor of difference. This populist use equates young people’s immersion and proximity to mobile, gaming and web-based technologies with knowledge, skills and confidence. Young people are ‘good’ at tech stuff, older people aren’t. ‘Tech stuff’ is a thing, rather than a diverse, overlapping and developing landscape of technologies, practices and environments. While the majority of young people do have more routine access, it certainly doesn’t seem inevitable that these young people have innately developed the kinds of creative and critical skills that support active citizenship in digital environments. Ofcom’s 2014 Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitude Report reports improvements in young people’s understanding of search engine results, with just over half (52%) of 12-15s who use search engines now understanding that some of the sites returned will be truthful and some won’t be, compared to 45% in 2013. While the picture in terms of basic digital literacy is improving, it’s still a long way from the glossy wholesale assumptions called up by the idea of a ‘digital native’
- Incoming expectations of the digital environment formed at school David White and Joanna Wild (2014) JISC
- Please note – I have reordered (although not changed) the listed challenges, in line with the priorities cited by school aged learners in the Leicester City Learner Voice work. How are you enhancing your FE students’ digital experience? Sarah Knight (2015) JISC
- 233 members of staff (52%) classified their skills and confidence at Pioneer level 26% of practitioners scored themselves at Entry Strong E-Safety and Online Identity, not corresponding with Communication, Collaboration and Participation scores. DigiLit Leicester: 2014 Survey Results Lucy Atkins, Josie Fraser & Richard Hall (2014) Leicester City Council