Author: George Milliken

Flipped Learning

Planning for flipped learning

  1. Plan
    Figure out which lesson, or series of lessons in particular you want to flip.
    Outline the key learning outcomes and concepts.
  2. Record
    Make a video. Try to ensure that the video content utilises techniques to reduce cognitive load such as dual coding, particularly if you are recording a presentation.
  3. Independent Learning Activity
    Consider a short learning activity that accompanies the video.  For example, you may wish to

    • create a diagnostic quiz that will allow you to see how well the learners have understood the content/identify any misconceptions
    • visualise the video content as a concept map or infographic and add to a OneNote page
    • create a set of flash cards about the topic

4. In Class
In class, you can spend more time engaging learners in higher order thinking tasks, practical activities, groups work.

You can use the learner evidence from the independent learning activity to facilitate discussion and debate, or tackle misconceptions.

Some other strategies that can be used in in-class activities, either in person or online include:

  • Active learning
    Allow students to apply concepts in class where they can ask peers or instructors for feedback and clarification.
    There are a variety of digital tools that you may find useful for in class, or remote use.
  • Concept Testing.
    Students can explain their understanding to each other by explaining concepts and misconceptions or working on small problems.
  • Collaborative learning.
    Collaborative learning activities could increase student engagement, enhance student understanding, and promote collective intelligence.Multi-authoring features of cloud based productivity suites such as Office365 and Gsuite allow learners to work together on the same documents in real time.

    in a virtual live environment, tools such as Jamboard in Google Classroom, Whiteboard in Teams or the collaboration space in Class Notebook can all be used for lcollaboration

Assessment with Microsoft O365 (This is Digital)

Microsoft O365 has a range of tools and apps that can be used to support teaching digitally.
 
 

Teams allows you and your learners to share files – making it easy for them to return learning activities and evidence to you in one place. You can then access these shared files and provide feedback directly on their document. As the documents are shared online this enables the teacher to provide feedback in real-time, making it even easier to provide more meaningful feedback that can be direct learning.
Assignments within Teams add additional functionality to file sharing and managing assessment evidence from learning.

Forms Quiz option allows you to create interactive quizzes for assessment. When set to Quiz, Forms allow you to set a correct answer and feedback comment that will auto-assess and feedback to learners instantly. Forms also has an ‘upload’ option for answers, allowing learners to submit media or different file types, such as a photo of mathematical working or a Scratch file, making it effective for different evidence types. There is even an option to allow maths inputs, such as symbols or formulae, making it an adaptable tool for assessment.

Learning with Microsoft O365 (This is Digital)

Microsoft O365 has a range of tools and apps that can be used to support teaching digitally.

Online Teaching Strategies

O365 Teams allows you to check in with learners using direct messaging and chat; and assign learning and activities to individual learners, groups or whole classes with Assignments.

Teams Assignments are an effective way to share learning activities with learners – share learning intentions, activity instructions and assessment feedback in one place.

Whiteboard allows your learners to share ideas and understanding with pre-made mind-mapping layouts (effective for scaffolding thinking) and post-it notes

OneNote is a virtual notebook that makes use of sections and pages, like an organiser, to order learning. The pages can include text, images, video, drawing with virtual ink, and voice recordings – this flexibility makes it effective to evidence learning.

There are built-in accessibility tools that can make it easier for learners to engage with digital apps including typing with their voice, having the screen read to them or even having PowerPoint listen to their presentation and offer feedback on it

Teaching with Microsoft O365 (This is Digital)

Considerations for Creating Learning Content

Microsoft O365 has a range of tools and apps that can be used to support teaching digitally. When creating content for learning it is vital to consider the layout, presentation and amount of information.

Stream

O365 Stream allows you to create your own videos to support learning and teaching – and you can even upload videos you have already created for other platforms.

PowerPoint

PowerPoint can be used to create presentations to support your delivery or provide information for learners to use independently to support their thinking.

Forms Quizzes

O365 Forms allow you to create quizzes that can be shared to learners online. Quizzes can be set up to self-mark, saving time on marking and providing instant feedback to learners.

Creating Multimedia Teaching Content

Planning with Microsoft O365 (This is Digital)

Microsoft O365 has a range of tools and apps that can be used to support planning digitally:

  • Forms
  • Whiteboard
  • OneDrive 
  • Teams

Forms can be used to create forms for evaluation and polls or quizzes for assessment and feedback. Engage with your learners and use their ideas to plan better learning.

O365 Whiteboard allows you to share ideas with pre-made mind-mapping layouts and post-it notes

O365 Teams allows you to work together by sharing files or with video calls

O365 OneDrive can be used to create and collaborate on documents together.

Evaluating Use of Digital to Enhance Learning and Teaching (Features of Highly Effective Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Schools)

This document aims to support educators in evaluating their use of digital to enhance learning and teaching. It takes features of How Good is Our School and exemplifies how digital can be used to enhance features of effective learning and teaching.

This document is part of a series, view the other documents here: Digital Literacy Series

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Online Resources from DigiLearnScot

With all of the ongoing challenges of COVID-19 in schools, we’ve pulled together a few resources to support teachers when learners or staff are absent due to self-isolation.

These resources have been designed or curated to lend themselves to be undertaken with a degree of independence and not requiring a teacher to deliver ‘live’, although they could be adapted to suit this mode.

All of our materials are copyright-free but please respect the copyright and ownership of any resources or content we link to.

Let us know if you found any of these resources useful by writing a short blog post or tweeting about them with the hashtag #DigiLearnChat

Digital Literacy with iPad

These activities have been designed with the iPad in mind but could be adapted for use with other devices and apps. The apps suggested are typical ‘out of the box’ apps that should be available on your device without the need for download or purchase.

Cyber Scotland Week 2022 – Capture the Flag with Try Hack Me for Secondary Schools

This page is for secondary teachers interested in entering teams into a FREE cyber security Capture the Flag event on TryHackMe.

The challenges will be suitable for complete beginners as well as experienced tech-savvy students. Try Hack Me will support teachers with three recorded lessons. This information might be useful to know before starting with the recorded lessons and the Capture the Flag event:
TryHackMe | Network Fundamentals

This video from TryHackMe gives an overview of the platform to get you started

 

 

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Recorded Lessons

lesson 1

 

lesson 2

lesson 3

Room for them to follow along: https://tryhackme.com/jr/introdigitalforensics

Room to complete after https://tryhackme.com/jr/windowsforensics1

CIDREE Yearbook 2021 – Digital Literacy: Curriculum Development and Implementation in European Countries

The latest CIDREE Yearbook was published towards the end of last year. Titled Digital Literacy: Curriculum Development and Implementation in European Countries, we contributed the Scottish chapter on how digital literacy has been embraced by education practitioners and learners across Early Learning and Childcare, primary and secondary schools (ages 3-18). 

It details how adapting and diversifying modes of professional learning are critical in providing practitioners with relevant, motivating and skills-building opportunities to improve their own digital learning and subsequently provide better digital learning for young people. It then expands on how this has led to the development of knowledge, skills and application in the use of digital tools and on pedagogical practice.

digital wellbeing award

The Digital Wellbeing Award for Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety – Digital Schools Award

The Digital Wellbeing Award for Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety is designed to provide education professionals with the resources and support required to help pupils safely navigate the digital world.

Schools that successfully complete the programme receive a nationally recognised award by Education Scotland.
Register your school 

 

Find out more about:

Digital Schools Award

Digital Wellbeing Award