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Digital Transformation to Enhance Teacher Agency
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Summary
The ‘Enhancing teacher agency with technology: Creating an ecological model through a place-based study of teaching and learning’ project is being led by Prof John Gordon in UEA’s School of Education and Lifelong Learning, in collaboration with the School of Computing Science.
The project will advance comprehension of teacher agency with technology for teaching and learning. It aims to understand how teachers' choices and actions are affected by the conditions they work in, to support the use of technology to improve their experiences. Through a place-based study the team will work to improve agency of teachers and influence policy making.
The project is supported by ESRC (https://www.ukri.org/councils/esrc/) and will conduct this research in partnership with Norfolk County Council Children’s Services, Norfolk County Council Library and Information Service and BT Applied Research in Adastral Park. Over the next three years we will be working with teachers and school leaders across East Anglia to understand how they use technology in their schools, and what they want from technology for their students and for their teaching in the future.
Commenting on the project award Professor Gerard Parr of the School of Computing Sciences said “We are delighted to collaborate with our colleagues in the School of Education and Lifelong Learning to investigate innovations in technology such as immersive digital experiences as well as new student learning environments in support of teachers that will help to transform the delivery of education practices”.
By rethinking the approach to teaching in a post-lockdown, more digitally connected world, this work aims to inform new, more impactful ways of teaching which integrate technology into the classroom.
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