Conference presentation
MyTED: Ready, set, jump into learning
University of the Sunshine Coast
2014
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Abstract
My Tertiary Education Day (MyTED) is a HEPP-funded program that encourages primary school students and their caregivers to consider tertiary education opportunities. It works on the premise that students are unable to aspire to attend tertiary education if they are unaware of the opportunities that are available to them or even that University or TAFE exists. The program aims to: • Enhance the capacity of primary school aged children and their parents to aspire to attend tertiary education. • Promote dialogue through the sharing of narratives about non-traditional routes to higher education highlighting the barriers and enablers that supported them to attain a tertiary education. • Increase capacity through exposure to a tertiary education facility. • Increase capacity through the use of the "MyTED: Ready, Set, Jump" eBook. MyTED is investigating: • The aspirations of a group of primary school students and their parents for their future. • How exposure to a tertiary education environment may affect the capacity to aspire to participate in tertiary education. • The ways in which an eBook about aspirations, that includes stories from tertiary education students and graduates, inform the capacity to aspire to participate in higher education. MyTED utilises a participatory research methodology which includes the students as researchers of their own aspirations, working alongside academics. The students use Photovoice to collect data due to its accessibility by all students and their parents. Photographs are taken using iPads and then the students insert the photographs into an template that creates their own aspirations pathway. Photographs are then contextualised using a photo acronym. Photovoice evolved into a new method for collecting data that we have called MyVoice. MyVoice allows students to capture their point of view through visual design. Students can opt to draw their aspirations and contextualise them by answering a series of questions. Time will be allocated for you to look at the eBook and to participate in Photovoice and MyVoice activities as the classroom is transformed. You will be actively engaged in this presentation as you will assume the role of learners in a fun and interactive way.
Details
- Title
- MyTED: Ready, set, jump into learning
- Creators
- Ruth Greenaway - University of the Sunshine CoastUwe Terton - University of the Sunshine CoastSandra Elsom - University of the Sunshine Coast
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast; Australia
- Identifiers
- 991013143606402368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts; Centre for Teaching and Learning
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference presentation