Category: this is digital CLPL

June 5, 2023

This is Digital Learning and Teaching professional learning programme overview

About this programme

This course consists of four webinars, each examining a theme of planning, teaching, learning and assessment. Attendees are required to participate in discussions, share examples of practice and will receive a certificate of completion from Education Scotland for completing this.

Participants are required to be digitally literate and confident in applying digital technology in their class. Ideally, but not essentially, having achieved Microsoft Expert, Google Educator level 2 or complete Apple Portfolio.

Back to Digital Learning and Teaching

Programme rationale

This programme focuses on what is ‘effective use of digital technology’ and how this can enhance learnign and teaching, instead of focusing on the wide range of novel digital technologies available to teachers.

This is because teachers in Scotland are required to have an enhanced and critically informed understanding of digital technologies to support learning and the skills and competencies that comprise teacher digital literacy and know how to embed digital technologies to enhance teaching and learning; as well as being able to consistently demonstrate the enhanced skills and abilities working both individually and collaboratively to ensure that every learner has access to and are enabled to select from well-chosen/designed resources including digital technologies. – GTCS (2021)

What can I expect?

This programme has been designed using Rosenshine’s principles of instructional design: smaller steps, revisiting prior learning, models of success and questions to check understanding.

Each webinar is underpinned by research and focused on one of the four themes of planning, teaching, learnign and assessment. Participants will be asked to share their thoughts on the theme and then the presenters will offer ideas and a model to scaffold participants’ understanding. The webinar will finish with a ‘call to action’ for participants to identify an idea form the webinar that they will test in their practice.

Preparing
Planning and resourcing
Delivering
Assessment & feed-forward

- Back to This is Digital page Reading and watching This episode of CLPL focuses on the rationale for using, or not using, digital technology in learning. An Education Endowment Foundation… …

- Back to This is Digital page Reading and watching This episode of CLPL focuses on the elements to consider when planning and resourcing lessons with digital. How does digital make… …

- Back to This is Digital page Reading and watching This episode of CLPL focuses on the elements to consider when designing and delivering lessons with digital. Creativity in the classroom… …

- Back to This is Digital page Reading and watching This episode of CLPL focuses on the elements to consider when assessing learning and providing 'feed forward'. Using digital technology to… …

What do I need to do or know?

Participants are required to take an active role in sharing their current practice, as well as their own personal successes and failures. The aim being that we build a community of support and guidance, helping everyone involved reflect upon where they are now, where they need to be, and how they will get there. It would be expected that some practitioner enquiry take place as evidence of the professional development you have undertaken with us.

The programme meets the GTCS Standard for Career-Long Professional Learning 2.1.1, 2.1.3 and 3.2.1.

Participants should ensure they have an understanding of these documents before attending, as they will be referenced throughout.

GTCS Standard for Career-Long Professional Learning

Technologies: Experiences and Outcomes

European framework for the digital competence of educators

April 6, 2023

This is Digital: ELC

About this programme

DigiLearnScot ELC home

Programme rationale

What can I expect?

This programme has been designed using Rosenshine’s principles of instructional design: smaller steps, revisiting prior learning, models of success and questions to check understanding.

Preparing
Planning and resourcing
Delivering
Assessment & feed-forward

- Back to This is Digital page Reading and watching This episode of CLPL focuses on the rationale for using, or not using, digital technology in learning. An Education Endowment Foundation… …

- Back to This is Digital page Reading and watching This episode of CLPL focuses on the elements to consider when planning and resourcing lessons with digital. How does digital make… …

- Back to This is Digital page Reading and watching This episode of CLPL focuses on the elements to consider when designing and delivering lessons with digital. Creativity in the classroom… …

- Back to This is Digital page Reading and watching This episode of CLPL focuses on the elements to consider when assessing learning and providing 'feed forward'. Using digital technology to… …

What do I need to do or know?

The programme meets the GTCS Standard for Career-Long Professional Learning 2.1.1, 2.1.3 and 3.2.1.

Participants should ensure they have an understanding of these documents before attending, as they will be referenced throughout.

GTCS Standard for Career-Long Professional Learning

Technologies: Experiences and Outcomes

European framework for the digital competence of educators

February 28, 2023

30 May, This is Digital Learning and Teaching professional learning programme

As educators it is our responsibility to make effective use of digital technology to deliver high quality teaching, engaging learning and effective assessment.

This four-part professional learning programme is designed to enhance educators’ knowledge and skills in order to develop their planning, teaching and learning, and assessment and feedback with digital technology.

The four sessions cover:

preparing for digital in the classroom
creating quality resources for learning
creative approaches to teaching with digital
effective assessment and feedback approaches with digital

Find out more about the programme with this link.

January 10, 2023

This is Digital CLPL programme: assessing learning and feeding forward

Back to This is Digital page

Reading and watching

This episode of CLPL focuses on the elements to consider when assessing learning and providing ‘feed forward’.

Using digital technology to capture a range of assessment evidence
Designing assessments that effectively and fairly assess the skills and knowledge of learners
Providing feedback that informs improvements in learners

Local Assessment Resource (LAR)

Discussion points

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

What would learning look like without jotters?
How can digital ensure that the assessment matches the learnign and fairly captures skills and knowledge
Using digital to provide feedback that informs improvements in learners

March 2, 2022

This is Digital CLPL programme: planning and resourcing learning

Back to This is Digital page

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

Back to This is Digital page

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

Back to This is Digital page

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