Category: Digital Learning and Teaching

enhancing learning and teaching with digital

June 27, 2022

Teacher Leadership Programme 21/22 – Digital Enquiries

The Education Scotland Teacher Leadership Programme is designed to help participants to understand what teacher leadership means and looks like in practice. As a part of this process participants take an enquiring approach to developing an aspect of learning and teaching of their choosing as appropriate for the learners in their context.

This page showcases the learning of teachers who enquired about the impact of developing digital in their school.

Use this link to signup for the 22/23 programme

March 8, 2022

TLP enquiry posters for assessment and feedback

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March 8, 2022

TLP enquiry posters for learning

These posts have been selected from the PLL TLP as they focus on learners, learning and engagement. You can view the original images on the TLP flickr site by clicking on them. All credit to the post authors.

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March 8, 2022

TLP enquiry posters for teaching

These posts have been selected from the PLL TLP as they focus on teacher knowledge and skills (pedagogy). You can view the original images on the TLP flickr site by clicking on them. All credit to the post authors.

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March 8, 2022

TLP enquiry posters for planning

These posts have been selected from the PLL TLP as they focus on planning, device/platform provision and family engagement. You can view the original images on the TLP flickr site by clicking on them. All credit to the post authors.

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March 2, 2022

This is Digital CLPL programme: planning and resourcing learning

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Reading and watching

This episode of CLPL focuses on the elements to consider when planning and resourcing lessons with digital.

How does digital make learning more accessible
Using the SAMR model to make learning more relevant and engaging
How dual coding resources and learning content can make learning more effective

Accessibility

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) states that:

A child with a disability has the right to live a full and decent life with dignity and, as far
as possible, independence and to play an active part in the community. (Article 23)
Every child has the right to an education. (Article 28)
Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full. (Article 29)

SAMR

SAMR (substitution, augmentation, modification and redefinition) was developed by Dr R. Puentedura, following research into how the use of digital technology was transforming classroom-based teaching and learning (JISC, 2022)

The SAMR Model: Effective Technology Integration in Classrooms

Dual coding

Dual Coding is an excellent strategy that learners can employ to aid learning and revision, however, practitioners can employ the same strategy when developing materials for learners.

Discussion points

To enable more effective and meaningful discussions during the webinar, please consider your thoughts on these points beforehand:

Is it worth the time to make learning more accessible or engaging?
How long do you typically spend looking for resources online? Is it time well spent?
What skills do your learners need to access digital tools, such as accessibility ones?

March 2, 2022

This is Digital CLPL programme: delivering learning

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Reading and watching

This episode of CLPL focuses on the elements to consider when designing and delivering lessons with digital.

Creativity in the classroom
How and where does digital feature in Bloom’s Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)?
The TPACK model for relevant learning and meaningful outcomes

Creativity

These documents are central to embedding creativity in Scottish edcuation:

And this is internationally-recognised:

Creative Thinking – PISA

HOTS

Digital should enhance the learning (this may require new modes as explored in episode 2 with SAMR) and central to that is digital’s power to make learning more personalised to the individual learner and enabling them to make realistic products that can be shared with a relevant audience.

Blooms Taxonomy Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching

Discussion points

To enable more effective and meaningful discussions during the webinar, please consider your thoughts on these points beforehand:

How can we be more creative in the class?
How does this affect our learners?
How can digital support our learners be more independent?

Using flipped learning approaches can develop learners skills, knowledge and confidence – enabling them to make more informed decisions over how they learn. The use of digital platforms can also enable learners with particular learning needs or preferences, particularly around literacy.

Digital platforms make it easier to share instructions, content (such as videos), and activities with learners – complementing, or even replacing, existing paper-based systems, such as jotters and worksheets. Using digital platforms for learning enable us to create video tutorials that can be viewed by learners before attending lessons, allowing them to start with prior knowledge, and also to revisit any ideas they were unclear about, at a later time.

Flipped Learning – DigiLearn (glowscotland.org.uk)

March 2, 2022

This is Digital CLPL programme: preparing for learning

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Reading and watching

This episode of CLPL focuses on the rationale for using, or not using, digital technology in learning. An Education Endowment Foundation report in 2021 states that:

Effective use of digital technology is driven by learning and teaching goals rather than a specific technology
New technology does not automatically lead to increased attainment
Pupils’ motivation to use technology ≠ more effective learning

So, if digital does not intrinsically enhance learning then why do we use it?

Collaboration helps “build social capital among teachers and other educators improves student learning… it also improves the ability to initiate and implement change, as ideas spread and last beyond a few individual brainwaves.” – A. Hargreaves and M. T O’Connor

In the same paper they also state that “The strongest case for digital technology in education or life, however, is when it uniquely provides something of value that cannot be offered in any other way.”

This session will outline the expectation of the programme that ideas and resources are shared between participants but also with the wider teaching community.

Read the full paper

John Hattie Learning Intentions & Success Criteria

Teacher Collaboration: Spreading Best Practices School-Wide

Discussion points

To enable more effective and meaningful discussions during the webinar, please consider your thoughts on these points beforehand:

Examples of interesting practice you have done or witnessed
How digital fits into other approaches, such as flipped learning, tapestry or retrieval practice
The standards and expectations you have for learners when using digital in class or at home

February 11, 2022

Assessment with Google Workspace (This is Digital)

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

Google Workspace in Glow – DigiLearn (glowscotland.org.uk)

Forms

Google Forms allows you to create quizzes to check knowledge and understanding of learners, including options for marking and feedback.

February 11, 2022

Learning with Google Workspace (This is Digital)

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

Google Workspace in Glow – DigiLearn (glowscotland.org.uk)

Classroom

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

Jamboard

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