{"id":18043,"date":"2023-04-06T13:38:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T12:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/digilearn\/?p=18043"},"modified":"2023-04-06T13:52:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T12:52:12","slug":"learning-with-digital-learner-digital-literacy-theme-elc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/digilearn\/2023\/04\/06\/learning-with-digital-learner-digital-literacy-theme-elc\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning with Digital – learner digital literacy theme: ELC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This page outlines some of the key digital literacy skills and knowledge that learners could make effective use of in the classroom. This ranges from being able to upload, share and collaborate on platforms like Teams and Classroom to using platforms like SeeSaw and Showbie to journal and share their learning.<\/p>\n

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Developing Your Learners’ Digital ‘Pencil Case’<\/a> is the corresponding professional learnign to support teachers plan, teach and assess this set of digital literacy skills and knowledge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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The Digital Literacy Planning Support documents<\/a> are examples of how educators might plan learner digital literacy learning. The documents identify the Technologies Experience and Outcome, a theme to apply this, suggestions of the skills and knowledge that that might be delivered, and links to some resources that might be relevant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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It may be useful to make a distinction between the functional ‘office-based’ platforms available in Glow<\/a>, like Microsoft 365<\/a> and Google Workspace<\/a>, and the wide range of devices and apps available to create multimedia content. Although designed for professional use these platforms can be utilised for learning too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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The first aspect to consider is how learners can use Glow and other online platforms to connect, contact and communicate with each other. Are they using email, direct messaging or video calls? How are these skills useful in learning, life and work?<\/p>\n

What are digital communication systems? – BBC Bitesize<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Using cloud drives, such as OneDrive (Microsoft) and Drive (Google), learners can create and share content with peers, teachers and even learners in other schools or countries. Not only can they be shared, they can be co-created and edited at the same time on multiple computers at once! How is this useful for life, learning and work?<\/p>\n

Collaborating using IT – BBC Bitesize<\/a><\/p>\n

Tech She Can has a short video explaining how cloud computing works for younger learners:<\/p>\n

Tech for Katie and Tex explore the cloud (techshecan.org)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When planning learning around the functional tools in Glow, it is worth considering their purpose and application. Text-based documents, such as Word, Docs, PowerPoint and Slides might lend themselves to Literacy & English<\/span> Es and Os:<\/span><\/p>\n