Random media from the Faculty of Education: Recent Episodes
Cambridge University
The video is a film of the lecture given by Professor Madeleine Arnot for the M.Phil, M.Ed, Ph.D and Ed.D courses on educational research. It offers students a chance to think about some recent debates about the role of theory in research, and the ways in which a theoretically informed study can be designed. The examples given derive from actual research projects.
Charities Right to Play and Starlight discuss their approach on bringing play to challenging settings nationally and internationally
A PEDAL Resource that aims to use play to help children engage with the COVID swabbing procedure and reduce some of their worry.
This clip depicts classroom dialogue in a secondary school history lesson where students in turn annotate the “Armada” portrait of the Queen Elizabeth I.
This clip shows students working in small groups in a collaborative writing task. The teacher monitors discussions and provides informative feedback to the students.
In this video Ruth discusses how she used the WAM (We Are Multilingual) resources in class and the benefits for her students.
The class teacher revisits previously-agreed talk rules with the class before their discussion about the solar system. She asks them to provide 'top tips' for successful discussions.
This presentation provides an overview of the Education strand of the MEITS project (Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies), which investigates how multilingualism, and the extent to which one identifies as multilingual, influence additional language learning.
Richard Brock talks about the principles of research design and theoretical underpinnings associated with research & investigation during the workshop that took place on the 14th of June 2017.
Ben Alcott talks about international research associated with research & investigation during the workshop that took place on the 15th of June 2017.
Part of the seminar on the relationships between dialogue and children’s self regulation, July 2016
Sara Hennessey talks about surveys and questionnaires associated with research & investigation during the workshop that took place on the 7th of June 2016.
Enjoyment, achievement and motivation through using War With Troy audio and teaching resources available from www.classictales.co.uk
As the participants switch roles in this task, to make a full assessment this video must be seen with Lego video 1. Both participants are assessed as Gold across the whole task.
Professor Christine Howe's lecture for the Science Festival 2014, at the Faculty of Education.
This clip illustrates how groups of primary school children used the interactive whiteboard (IWB) to revisit and annotate a collection of images pertaining to personal safety issues. The dialogue included sharing with the class the advice they had previously generated during group discussions (“as a team working for Childline”) and recorded on large sheets of paper.
This clip illustrates how a group of primary school children used the interactive whiteboard to display and talk through their annotations of a collection of images pertaining to personal safety issues.
Seminar on cultural and institutional dimensions of transformation by Prof. Dr. Giedrius Jucevicius, Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania)
Seminar and discussion on action research in Kazakhstan by Dr Kairat Kurakbayev and Darkhan Bilyalov..
This clip shows a Standard 6 class teacher from Ukombozi Primary School which is located in a deprived urban area of Tanzania. The lesson aims to explain the concepts of basic prepositions in English and the teacher uses the relative locations of students to illustrate the meanings.
This clip shows a teacher in Zambia of 7th grade students using the Android app called MobiMaths, developed by a joint team at Trinity College Dublin and the National Digital Research Centre in Dublin, on an Advent Vega 10.1” tablet. The application allows the user to overlay a scalable, movable grid on top of an image to compare relative sizes of objects in the picture. In this example, the teacher is using a satellite image of their school building obtained from Google Maps. With this image, students can compare the sizes of known buildings with each other using the grid.
This is a tutorial for performing an advanced book or journal search using the LibrarySearch catalogue. The tutorial contains audio instructions as well as a video guide. Please contact the Faculty of Education Library team for any further help with searching the catalogue.
This video tells you what the mentors expect and what they got out of the D&T course if they went on it.