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Mixed Delivery

As we continue to protect ourselves and others from Covid19, there are times when learners and practitioners may find that they are asked to isolate at home, or find themselves at home for other reasons but are still able to support learners in school at a distance

Using Glow and other digital tools, this page gathers examples of how practitioners have utilised technology to continue to support leaners in these circumstances.

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.
 
 

Office365 in Glow – DigiLearn (glowscotland.org.uk)

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.

Office365 in Glow – DigiLearn (glowscotland.org.uk)

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.

Office365 in Glow – DigiLearn (glowscotland.org.uk)

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

Microsoft Educator Centre

Create with Adobe Creative Cloud Express and Microsoft EDU – Microsoft Educator Center

How to choose the right colors and create visual hierarchy – Microsoft Educator Center

What to do before designing your presentation – Microsoft Educator Center

How to use video and animation effects – Microsoft Educator Center

How to combine text and images like a pro – Microsoft Educator Center

Adobe Education Exchange

Basic Principles of Design | Adobe Education Exchange

Engaging Video Projects in the Classroom | Adobe Education Exchange

Creating Digital Images Professional Learning Kit | Adobe Education Exchange

 

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

Office365 in Glow – DigiLearn (glowscotland.org.uk)

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

What is Microsoft Whiteboard? – DigiLearn (glowscotland.org.uk)

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.

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 Resilience and Internet Safety Resources for Primary Schools

To more effectively support our learners with their online lives it is important to understand their behaviour as consumption, creation or communication. The apps and platforms they use may be ever-changing but their behaviours are not. Understanding the behaviour will help educators make more effective use of our Teacher Toolkit which has ideas, information and resources to support with cyber resilience learning and teaching.

finding information with digital clpl

Monkey Cow read-along for Early and First level learners

cyber resilience: recognise react recover

Passwords are really important because they tell our accounts and devices that it is us accessing them and stops others from accessing them – like the key to your front door.

Learners should RECOGNISE the need for passwords (and other security features, such as face and fingerprint recognition). The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) recommends passwords should be made of three random words.

Learners should be able to REACT to any threats to their device or account, including phishing, hacking or malware.

Finally, they should know how to RECOVER their account or device from any potential cyber attack, including running antivirus on devices, resetting passwords for accounts, and backing up and restoring accounts or devices.

Stronger Passwords

How Secure Is My Password? | Password Strength Checker

Google Interlands

Palo Alto A.C.E.S. course

You’re the Cyber Security Expert – Barefoot Computing

Code Cracking – Barefoot Computing

Strong passwords – micro:bit

Cyber Land – Cyber Games UK 

internet safety: safe smart kind

Learners should be aware of the behaviour of others and themselves online. Teachers should promote positive behaviours and discussing how learners may develop these, while supporting them to overcome challenges they face online.

Learners should be SAFE when online. In order to do this they need to understand the potential risks to their safety, such as grooming, harassment or threatening behaviour. 

Learners should be SMART online. They should be aware of scams, consider how much personal information they share online, and be developing confidence to question online media.

Finally, they should be KIND to others online. It is more likely that learners have been exposed to unkind behaviour online and tackling this should lead them to identifying more positive behaviours and also how to deal with cyberbullying, griefing, trolling and other online behaviours.

Safer

Thinkuknow – home

Report online child sexual abuse images & videos | IWF

Smarter

Online Spending – DigiLearn

Information Literacy – DigiLearn

Kinder

respectme What is bullying?respectme

Tech We Can: Tech for the Planet lesson resource

Tech She Can is delighted to share the brand new Tech We Can lesson, ‘Tech for the Planet’ which is out now!

“Since the COP26 climate summit earlier this month, topics such as sustainable living and protecting the future of our planet have dominated the news agenda, as well as entering our everyday conversations, including those taking place in schools and among young people.

Our latest free on-demand Tech We Can lesson, ‘Tech for the Planet’ aims to show some of the innovative ways in which technologists around the world are using technology to protect our air, reduce waste, help clean the oceans and preserve our wildlife. It also highlights role models working in these areas – Lucinda Jones from Unilever and Mikya Rozner from Tesco – which we hope will inspire young viewers to consider a future career in technology.

You can watch the lesson, aimed at 8 – 14 year olds, and taught by Becky Patel and Katie King here.

If you’d like to explore other Tech We Can educational resources, for use at school or at home, please head over to techwecan.org to gain access to a wide range of on-demand lessons and lesson packs. Each explores the use of technology in a different area – from sport, to food and outer space – and highlights the types of careers that students could go into in the future.

 

 

Go to Tech We Can resources

Level 4 Resources for Cyber Fundamentals and Internet Safety

Education Scotland have collaborated with Girvan Academy in South Ayrshire to produce a set of resources that combine the SQA level 4 units in Cyber Security Fundamentals and Internet Safety.  These resources reinforce our belief that every learner should have the knowledge and skills to use the internet and online services safely, allowing them to spot potential risks and recover from any potential harm, they face while using online services. 

 

 

The following teaching resources have been created:

 

Assessment evidence  

The assessor will use the portfolio approach to generate evidence that learners have achieved these units. 

A learner must complete the Getting Started with Online Accounts booklet, one of the relevant ”Getting Started with Chromebook/iPad’ booklets (depending on what device they have set up), and then the assessor must complete an observation checklist for every learner:

  • Assessor answer booklet  
  • Observation checklist  
  • Learner profile  

 

The teacher answer booklet and prior verification certificate can be downloaded from the SQA secure site.