an outline of the themes that came out of the DeFT case studies.

1. +
Digital
Participation,
Apprenticeship
&
Learning
Cathy Burnett
&
Julia Davies

2. +
Themes: (cross cutting and overlapping)
Production
Digitality and
Multimodality
Blended &
Participation,
Distributed
Sharing &
Learning
Collaboration
Spaces

3. +
Digitality
Awareness of the digital technology; the allure of shiny
and new; the problem of accessing new hardware;
getting to grips with the software
 ‘old wine in new bottles’ ? ( Lankshear and Bigum,
1999)
 ‘polished performances of old practices’ ( Davies
and Merchant, 2009)
 Knights Move
 new artefacts have drawn us into digital text creation
and experimenting with the mediation of messages
across multiple modes
 Investment of time to acquire (and update) new
skills; management of resources;
 Classroom management issues; shifts in student
agency and control over learning/teaching

4. +
Examples Digitality
 Digital Bloom – iPads and
‘Brushes” (beyond angry birds)
 Moodle – understanding the
software

5. +
Production and Multimodality
 Moving from the position of consumer to producer
 Moving from Reader to Writer
 Improvisation, creating new texts
 Multiple Modes easier with digital technologies –
texts with images, voice, video, considerations of
font, layout and colour
 Text as dynamic
As words fly onto the computer screen,
revolve, and dissolve, image, sound and
movement enter school classrooms in new
and significant ways, ways that reconfigure
the relationship of image and word
(Jewitt, 2005)

6. + Production and Multimodality Examples
 Monsters @ Monteney
 21st century Show and Tell

7. +
Participation, Sharing & Collaboration
 Learning as less individuated
 Contribution to bigger projects
 Opening out the space of the
classroom
 Working as apprentices in
‘other’ spaces with the
community

8. + Participation, Sharing & Collaboration
- examples
 Alternative forms of recording
 Digital Storytelling
 OERs and Sharing Good
Practice

9. +
Blended & Distributed Learning Spaces
 Funds of Knowledge
 Third Space
 Online/offline
 QR codes to engage boys with reading

10. + Blended & Distributed Learning Spaces:
Examples
 Camp cardboard

11. Collecting Info at Magna for QR code project

12. +
Final Comments
 Digital Technologies provide opportunities to enhance, record
and share traditional practices
 Digital technologies provide additional opportunities to engage
learners in new ways
 Digital technologies are recognisable and familiar to even the
youngest of learners
 Digital technologies allow learners to gain more control over
their learning and to gain in confidence

13. +
Next Session
A. Getting to Grips with Software
B. Using Social Networking
C. Mobile technologies & Taking the Class Outside
D. Professional Development Issues