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Supporting staff development in Digital Literacy: the DigiLit Leicester Project (643)

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Tue, Sep 2 2014, 9:00am – 10:00am

Description

The internationally acclaimed DigiLit Leicester project is a knowledge exchange between Leicester City Council’s Building Schools for the Future programme, De Montfort University and 23 of the city’s Secondary Schools. In consultation with the schools, the project team created a digital literacy framework, situated in secondary level practice, designed to support staff in reflecting on their use of technology to support teaching, learning and whole school community development. The framework focuses around six key areas of digital literacy: Finding, Evaluating and Organising; Creating and Sharing; Assessment and Feedback; Communication, Collaboration and Participation; E-Safety and Online Identity and Technology Supported Professional Development. Practices within these six strands were assigned to four level descriptors: Entry, Core, Developer or Pioneer.

This framework was used to produce an online survey, which collected data to enable staff, schools and the Council to identify areas of priority around digital literacy professional development. The survey has run for two years, allowing staff and schools to work towards these priority areas, and the project team to capture comparative data. In September, the project will be in the final phase of evaluation, providing an opportunity to share key findings and lessons learnt.

Following an introduction to the project, the session will be largely practical, with attendees given the opportunity to interrogate the survey content around the Technology supported Professional Development strand. Attendees will be asked to consider the appropriateness of the content at each level, the transferability of the content in relation to other sectors (FE, HE, etc.) and how suited the content is to current practice in their institution.

The session will close with a summary of the key findings of the project and the lessons learnt, to support attendees in implementing their own approaches to raising staff digital literacy. All content from the DigiLit Leicester project, including the survey methodology and content, has been released under an open license (Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial) so that others can use and build upon it. This can be accessed from the DigiLit Leicester Project website.