11:35 a.m.
Dear all,
We had a meeting about co-production today.
You can find the recording and slides below – these are saved in WP3 folder Shamim
created, under internal meetings.
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/11gLb2v0L4QrIVxIuGME4oAGRi_lOT7uS
Some main points from our discussion below (also in the slidedeck shared above) – if any
comments, pls reply to this email.
· There is an overlap between Co-design and Prof development WPs. Co-design
focuses on the process and structure of designing with teachers. Prof develop could
contribute content to the codesign workshops. Co-design is an ongoing process of engaging
with a group of teachers throughout the 3 years:Y1 teachers may deliver workshops to
teachers in Y2 (peer to peer learning). Prof development may include modelling activities
where teachers act as students and take part in DT activities.
· Teachers could be involved in different aspects of co-design (slide 5). In Y1,
we focus only on teachers creating lesson plans, activities for games, reviewing teacher
activity plan and possibly reviewing technology extensions. In Y2 and Y3 we could consider
how teachers can feed into data analysis, authorship of publications etc. Some teachers
will be willing to do so, some others not, and that’s absolutely fine.
· Teachers’ skills should be heavily considered: how we develop their skills in
using our technologies and DT? We will offer training to all, yet some may choose to use
existing lesson plans, others to design their own activities using the 3 games, others
have their students designing games depending on their level of confidence.
· Subject expertise: we should aim to design interdisciplinary DT projects so
teachers with different subject expertise can contribute to a single project.
· Need for videos etc to support teachers in designing lesson plans (Katrien and
Marianthi may have some material we start with and more are developed in WP3)
· A f-t-f workshop may be a good approach to help teachers engage with the project
and develop trust – this is likely to happen in Jan, followed by a number of online
workshops, completed by April (before May-July implementation)
· Researchers filling in activity template may be helpful – teachers discuss and
negotiate ideas and researchers view the recording and complete the activity template.
Then they share with teachers fort feedback and amendments.
· Activity planner can be used to prompt discussions and as a starting point for
teachers to review – example activity planners showcasing how technologies can be used
could also be used to spark ideas of how technologies can be used in DT.
· Timeline of workshops may differ in each country YET the aims and structure of
workshops should be the same to enable assessment and evaluation of their effectiveness
across countries.
· UK: teachers are expecting a workshop in Nov – we could replicate aspects of our
first 2 workshops with only teachers as an onboarding activity, also share the plan for
workshops that will start in Jan2023.
· Activity planner link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/196il90_vZ0iSP8RwwAliwYq4GgsDc_rt/edit#h…
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/196il90_vZ0iSP8RwwAliwYq4GgsDc_rt/edit#heading=h.gjdgxs>
Best wishes,
Thea
Dr Christothea Herodotou
Professor of Learning Technologies and Social Justice
Institute of Educational Technology (iet)
https://iet.open.ac.uk/people/christothea.herodotou
[Programme Structure - Ada. National College for Digital Skills]
