Keith Turvey

Primary ICT Specialist

 

Keith has worked in education for 20 years. As a primary school teacher of 15 years he successfully coordinated a range of subjects from music to mathematics and took on a number of senior management roles both in the UK and abroad. He has worked in teacher education for 5 years where he has pursued his particular interest in digital technologies and education, publishing academic papers on the potential of e-learning in education and the particular role that digital technologies have to play in facilitating creativity within the curriculum.

Since entering Higher Education as senior lecturer in education and subject coordinator for ICT, he has given papers at a number of international conferences on ICT in education:

• World Conference of Computers in Education (South Africa 2005)
• Imagining the Future for ICT in Education (Norway, 2006)
• Valuing Individual and Shared Learning – the role of ICT (Prague, 2008).

In 2007 Keith was invited to co-author the third edition of the successful practitioner book Primary ICT: Knowledge, Understanding and Practice, with colleagues from Oxford Brookes University and the Institute of Education, London. He has also published on education matters in general in the Guardian and Times Educational Supplement.

For more details about Keith, see his staff Profile at the University of Brighton

Dr. Penni Tearle

Secondary ICT Specialist

 

After 10 years teaching Penni took up post at the University of Exeter where she has been a senior lecturer/researcher for the last 20 years.

In July 2008 she steps down from this and will run her own independent consultancy.

Her research interests have focused on the implementation and integration of curriculum use of ICT in secondary schools in the UK, and she is also working with postgraduate students who are researching this topic in other settings.

She has also been exploring the use of ICT in Physical Education, professional development needs and processes in relation to using ICT for teaching and learning and various aspects of online learning.

For the last four years she has also led the evaluation of two environmental/’school gardening’ projects with the Eden Project UK, and this is now a key part of her work.