Geraldine's skill set includes:
- Digital literacy
- Learning Technologies
- Curriculum development and Learning Design
- Discourse analysis
- Further education
- Continual Professional Development
The aim of Geraldine's MPhil project is to investigate what digital literacy ‘looks like’ for curriculum staff working within the context of further education through the collection of qualitative data gathered through various stakeholders. With this data she hopes to develop a working definition of digital literacy and begin to build a conceptual framework to support teacher understanding of digital literacy first hand. This framework should aim to aid teaching staff in their use and experience of the digital tools available to them in the classroom.
This investigation builds upon current thinking in the literacy field. The dominant and competing discourses of digital literacy will be explored to uncover the extent of which these are challenged/complimented within the FE context, how discourses are framed by local and national policy and the impact of policy and current thinking has on the individual experiences of the teachers in FE.
This project will also bring to the fore the barriers and challenges that exist across the teaching profession to the acquisition of digital literacy skills to enable a more effective and inclusive approach to teacher training and development.
Presentation at ALT conference 2016: Supporting Peer review at Northampton using SparkPlus.
https://altc.alt.ac.uk/2016/speakers/geraldine-murphy/
Blog piece for the ALT Blog: Disruptive CPD. The Enigma experience at Loughborough College 2016
https://altc.alt.ac.uk/blog/2016/08/disruptive-cpd-the-enigma-experience/
‘Definitions don’t matter’: digital literacy and the undoing of Subject Media? Alex Kendall & Geraldine Murphy. MERJ, Vol 5, Issue 3. Page 42
https://merj.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/MERJ_5.2_Contents.pdf
Digital Literacy in the Further Education
Research exchange Presentation, Space, Literacies & Culture Conference 2014, The University of Sheffield.
#LTFE Whats my identity? Methodology discussed on East Midlands Learning Technologists blog:
http://eastmidslt.wordpress.com/
CRE conference 14th of July 2013, Poster presentation, Birmingham City University.
Open edition of RaPAL Journal, Summer 2013: http://content.yudu.com/A2a72v/RaPALSummer13/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=
