Practitioners should be able:
To engage in self and collaborative review to measure the impact of digital tools and technologies.
To produce and share practitioner enquiry into the use of digital tools and technologies.
Support and Examples
Explore Practitioner Enquiry from The General Teaching Council for Scotland
Find out more about the Educator Leadership Programme from Education Scotland
Practitioners should:
Engage with the main theoretical perspectives and research in the digital learning domain.
Be critically aware of the evidence and impact that digital tools, spaces and cultures can have on childhood and society and how digital learning and teaching can adapt to meet the needs of learners.
Support and Resources
Digital Education Research Articles from Imperial College
Over 60 collated articles on the topic of digital education, including: “How multimedia can improve learning and instruction”, “Using Cognitive Load Theory to improve slideshow presentations” and “Using technology to promote metacognition”
Digital learning research | Teaching and Learning and Leadership
This collection of research from the Australian Council for Educational Research includes recent papers such as “Rapid review of effective practice principles in the design and delivery of digital resources for teachers” (Syeda Kashfee Ahmed, Pru Mitchell, and Jenny Trevitt) amd “What sources of data did teachers use to inform remote teaching under Covid-19?” (Anne-Marie Chase, Kathryn Richardson, and Nathanael Reinertsen)
Using Digital Technology to Improve Learning
From 2019, the Educational Endowment Foundation set out 4 recommendations
1. Consider how technology will improve teaching and learning before introducing it
2. Technology can be used to improve the quality of explanations and modelling
3. Technology offers ways to improve the impact of pupil practice
4. Technology can play a role in improving assessment and feedback
Digital Learning and Teaching on the National Improvement Hub
This page from Education Scotland will support policy makers and practitioners from all sectors to embed digital learning and teaching across the curriculum.
Call Scotland
Call Scotland have been a Research and Development centre as well as a working Service unit since 1983, supporting teachers and learners overcome barriers to learning. This site provides access to support and resources to enable all learners access the curriculum using digital teachnology.
You may wish to look at digital learning theories and approaches, such as RAT, SAMR, TPACK, Digital Blooms, Connectivism, Design Thinking and Peeragogy
Other Interesting Links
Practitioners should be able:
To understand where one’s own digital competence needs to be improved or updated.
To be able to support others with their digital competence development and be able to advise how to improve.
To seek opportunities for self-development and to keep up-to-date with the digital evolution.
Support and Resources
Many vendors have professional learning programmes, specifically designed to support your understanding and skills of their technologies and services.
Explore the digilearn.scot site, in particular :
Useful Documents
Features of highly effective digital learning, teaching and assessment in schools is a self evaluation tool that you will find useful when reflecting on your digital practice
What Digital Learning might look like is a document exemplifying possible examples of digital learning in the BGE.
Other Links
Digital Future Programme – Microsoft UK
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