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Category: Digital Learning and Teaching
enhancing learning and teaching with digital
Evaluating Use of Digital to Enhance Learning and Teaching (Features of Highly Effective Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Schools)
Gaelic version
View the document in PDF
Features of Highly Effective LTA in Schools Gaelic version.pdf
Christmas Activity Booklets for Early, First and Second Level – North Lanarkshire Digital Pathfinders
Assessing Numeracy and Maths with Forms
Forms can be used to create Quizzes (which allow assessment and feedback) or Forms (which collect information, such as evaluations). They can contain text, images and videos, which makes them engaging and accessible to more learners. A Quiz can also be set with correct answers and this will automatically assess and provide feedback to learners, which is ideal for metacognition. They are easy to duplicate and share between staff which can support moderation, ensure assessment is proportional and comparable between classes or levels.
Cyber in Numeracy and Mathematics
Cryptography
Cryptography is the study of constructing and analysing protocols that prevent third parties or the public from reading private messages. Encryption is used to secure our digital devices and services – whether that’s passwords, emails or social media – it takes information or data and disguises (encrypts) it, so that only the person who is supposed to access it can (be decrypting).
This wakelet contains links to cryptography resources that may be engaging for learners in numeracy and mathematics, computing science or social studies contexts – for example, Alan Turing and the mathematicians at Bletchley Park who decrypted hidden messages during WWII.
There are lots of other examples of encryption and cyphers throughout history – do you know of any?
CRIS Across the Curriculum: literacy, numeracy and HWB
Digital Quality Assurance of National Qualifications
This post outlines one possible digital solution for a quality assurance process when reviewing leaner evidence.
Using Microsoft Teams and OneNote, learner evidence can be curated and shared with peers. Discussion around learner evidence can be done asynchronously or live, with the results of the discussion recorded in text, video or voice notes. Every member of the team will be able to access the record of quality assurance to enable them to make judgements about their own learners.
An interactive summary of this suggested process can be downloaded here.
Quality Assuring Senior Phase Learner Evidence
Step 1- Identify Staff Groups
Identify a group of teachers who will work together to quality assure evidence. Example groupings might be
- trios of subject departments from across a local authority or regional improvement collaborative
- a group of single teacher department from across a local authority.
It is likely to be more manageable to limit the number of staff per group.
If possible, when creating groups of staff, distribute staff/departments who are experienced with SQA marking appropriately.
Step 2 – Set up a PLC Team in Microsoft Teams.
One person from each group sets up a team and creates a OneNote notebook to host the quality assurance evidence. A template page can be created to ensure consistency of recording evidence. The template text used in the video can be downloaded below.
This short video outlines the process of creating a PLC Team and a structure for the Notebook. At this stage, it would be beneficial if the person creating the team and notebook had access to the OneNote desktop app in order to add Section Groups.
A note about the welcome page – you may wish to add some instructions, links to SQA understanding standards documentation for your subject, or embed the adding learner content (below) videos on the welcome page.
Useful SQA links include
Understanding Standards www.understandingstandards.org.uk
NQ21 pages to keep up to date https://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/95157.html
Step 3 – Invite/share the team code with the group of teachers
At this point, learner evidence can be uploaded. This can be done by individual teachers. However, it may be that a nominated person from each department uploads content onto individual pages.
In the first instance, you may want to focus on just one area / topic / unit. For example, Folio from Higher English.
How to add learner content to page
You may be in the position where you have multiple paper based pieces of evidence for a learner. For example and exam script. If you have a mobile device, you can use the OneDrive and OneNote apps to combine multiple photos of that into a single PDF and insert it into a OneNote page.
Step 4 – Carrying out Quality Assurance activities
Once the notebook is populated with learner evidence and each page is named appropriately, staff can then carry out QA activities. This can be done during live meetings of the group where breakout rooms could be utilised and each breakout room is allocated a set number of pages to discuss. Alternatively, the group can agree who will quality assure what pages by a set date and this can be done individually.
Some examples can be downloaded below
In recent webinars, these use cases were summarised and presented as a set of slides. You can get these slides below
Quality Assurance Presentation from webinars
Notes about learner evidence
OneNote allows us to store a wide variety of media on each page. It is important to mindful about data protection and copyright.
- Ensure that learners cannot be identified – remove any personally identifiable content eg names from images, documents etc
- If using video content. do not embed videos where a pupil is visible. In these cases, you can play the video in a live meeting, have the QA discussion and record the outcome in OneNote. You should make a note on the document that this has happened
- Video content such as a walkaround of a product that pupil has created can be stored on pages, as long as it is anonymous as with photo/text based content.
- If you are using assessment materials that have been commercially created, do not upload them to the pages.
In Practice
This an example of how the West Lothian English Network are using this method to quality assure evidence of National Qualifications.
Assignments
Assignments are a useful tool for effective assessment. They allow the educator to make clear the learning activities and instructions, including all relevant resources in one place, and enabling learners to respond in a variety of ways with different tools. These assignments can then be posted or shared to communication channels, such as Teams and Classroom, making them easy to access for learners.
Being digital means that it easy for learners to submit learning, the educator to assess it and add feedback then return it, and for the learner to make changes to improve it before submitting for further assessment. Assignments also allow the educator to keep track of all learners’ submissions in one place and to easily track progress with at-a-glance data.
Assignments, on both platforms, can contain:
- Title
- Instructions – perfect place to explain learning intentions and success criteria, as well as instructions
- Materials – you can add web links, videos, documents (O365 and G Suite)
- Rubrics – excellent for making success criteria and feedback clear and transparent for learners
- Scheduling – time and date to be set and completed
- Pupils – whole class or individuals only
More with Assignments on Teams
Using Microsoft Forms to Support Learners and Assess Understanding
Gayle Badger is a Biology and Science teacher from Johnstone High School in Renfrewshire.
She has been using Microsoft Forms to support and assess learners understanding of the course content. Forms has allows her to create a variety of questions and provide instant feedback for them. This has been extremely beneficial and has received great feedback form learners and parents about how the instant feedback has guided their learning and next steps. Forms also allows Gayle to embed video and picture content that can be used to flip the learning or even to provide support to incorrect answers on the quiz, allowing learners to revise their answers more independently.
“It is definitely my go to now for checking understanding and I also use it as a ‘live’ lesson to go over answers , especially with seniors where they can see where they may have gone wrong with their answers.”
Pupils have said that they find it useful to have the teacher go over answers ‘live’, after completing the form, as they benefit from hearing her ‘going through the process’ of how to pick out data from the problem solving questions – just like they would do in class.
Here are two examples for different stages:
Numeracy and Mathematics – Digital Playlist
We have delivered number of webinars with our Numeracy and Mathematics colleagues in the past year – those webinars can be viewed on this playlist.
We have also created bitesize tutorials on the tools and approaches we use in these webinars – these can also be viewed here:
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