[cma-l] New handbooks on home-school relationships and digital participation available from Futurelab

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Futurelab is preparing to publish the conclusions of its latest
research into home-school relationships and digital participation. You
have the opportunity to pre-order FREE copies to be sent to you as
soon as they are available.

The developing the home-school relationship using digital technologies
handbook seeks to understand the needs and aspirations of teachers,
parents and children for effective relationships between home and
school. It also looks at how the use of digital technologies may
affect home-school relationships.

Research into parental engagement and home-school relationships has so
far focused on the relationship between parents and schools, but
children themselves play an active role in mediating between the two.
Children therefore need to be considered as the heart of any strategy
to support home-school relationships and parents’ engagement in
children’s learning.

To view the publication online and request a FREE copy, please visit

http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/publications-reports-articles/handbooks/Handbook1659

or email claire.denney at futurelab.org.uk

Digital literacy across the curriculum is a handbook is aimed at
teachers and school leaders in both primary and secondary schools who
are interested in creative and critical uses of technology in the
classroom. There is still relatively little information about how to
use technology in the classroom and even less guidance on how teachers
might combine a commitment to digital literacy with the needs of their
own subject teaching.

The handbook aims to redress the balance by providing a rationale,
some possible strategies and some practical examples for schools to
draw on. It also looks at issues related to continuing professional
development for teachers and the ways in which digital literacy can
support whole-school initiatives.

The handbook is supported by Digital literacy in practice, a set of
digital literacy case studies from both primary and secondary schools.
They are an account of real activities that were carried out by
teachers starting the process of integrating digital literacy into
their students everyday lives.

For more information on the project and to view the publication
online, please visit the website at:

http://www.futurelab.org.uk/projects/digital-participation

To request a FREE copy when available, please email
claire.denney at futurelab.org.uk.

If you would like to order multiple copies for distribution to a
network or event, please email claire.denney at futurelab.org.uk with the
number of copies required and the date by which you would need them.

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