{"id":1107,"date":"2017-03-06T22:01:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T22:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezekiels.co.uk\/eylan\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2017-03-06T22:01:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T22:01:47","slug":"pimppgce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezekiels.co.uk\/eylan\/pimppgce\/","title":{"rendered":"Pimp your PGCE"},"content":{"rendered":"

The one year PGCE<\/a> is one hell of a test of the human spirit. Amongst the few days out of school placements, there are brief deluges of information at Uni; \u00a0drenching trainee teachers with professional wisdom. Somehow, they are expected to manage this, and accommodate all this information into their practice. Somewhere in this heady rush towards the classroom, students are expected to find ways to bring digital technology into teaching – and I helped a few do that at Oxford Brookes University<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My contribution to the learning for these intrepid PGCE students was a workshop entitled <\/span>\u201cPimp your Planning\u201d<\/b>\u00a0– as part of their <\/span>PGCE Tech Day<\/span><\/a>. Given that they only get 16 hours of input on the digital aspect of their professional practice, I knew that any time I had had to be used well. I created a session to encourage these students to find ways to introduce, not only digital tools, but digital literacies, into their classrooms. It was a redraft of an experiment from a year ago – so \u00a0huge thanks to <\/span>the fabulous Clare Fenwick<\/span><\/a> for inviting me back: after my session last year got such great feedback (or at least that\u2019s what she told me!).<\/span>
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