Author: George Milliken

This is Digital: Assessment and Feedback

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 learning, teaching and assessment with digital technology.

 

Episode 4 –  Assessment done digitally:

  • can meet the needs of more learners
  • create easily accessible and portable evidence that can be shared and moderated
  • allows the teacher to provide meaningful feedback in the form of voice, video or text (and can even be generated automatically)
  • means the teacher can often export this data for more effective tracking

 

Discussion activity – before attending we want you to reflect on this statement and share your thinking with us:

“Teachers should ‘feed forward’ about learners’ next steps instead of feedback on something they have already done.”

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This is Digital: Teaching

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

Resource creation is often overlooked as a key skill when sharing content with learners. As educators, we have all been guilty of creating something with form over function. It looks good but doesn’t flow, it flows, but doesn’t have the visual elements or sometimes is just a page of text. 

When designing our learning resources having a feel for form and function can lead to the creation of some highly effective and concise content. This process of having clearly defined visual and text/audio elements is called Dual Coding.

Dual Coding is an excellent strategy that you can employ when developing materials for your learners.

Apps such as PowerPoint for example, have a number of in-built tools which can be used to better format slides for presentations or screen recordings.  Tools such as designer, smart art, built in icon and image  searches can help develop content in a clear, concise way. the video shows how this can be used easily

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

Resource creation is often overlooked as a key skill when sharing content with learners. As educators, we have all been guilty of creating something with form over function. It looks good but doesn’t flow, it flows, but doesn’t have the visual elements or sometimes is just a page of text. 

When designing our learning resources having a feel for form and function can lead to the creation of some highly effective and concise content. This process of having clearly defined visual and text/audio elements is called Dual Coding.

Dual Coding is an excellent strategy that you can employ when developing materials for your learners.

Apps such as PowerPoint for example, have a number of in-built tools which can be used to better format slides for presentations or screen recordings.  Tools such as designer, smart art, built in icon and image  searches can help develop content in a clear, concise way. the video shows how this can be used easily

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Below you will see some suggested clips to watch and some images you can download to give you a better understanding of some of the considerations to comply when developing content – these aren’t essential but will help you be best prepared to take an enquiring approach and engage in discussions on Tuesday.

dual coding elements of design

dual coding principles of design

This session will explore the use of digital platforms to deliver elements of learning which can be easily adapted to suit classroom-based or remote learning. It is important to take the time to teach learners the digital literacy skills and knowledge they will need to be able to use the chosen platform. Two platforms are freely available in Glow – Microsoft Teams and Google Classroom. These platforms provide a management system to create, share and collect learning – they are not a substitute for effective pedagogy, simply another part of your classroom management.

Click the icon on the right to find out more about your platform.

 

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)

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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.

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This is Digital: Planning

As educators it is our responsibility to make effective use of digital technology to deliver high quality teaching, engaging learning and effective assessment. This video explains our definition of digital learning and teaching versus digital literacy – one we plan for and one we plan with.

 

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The moderation cycle should be used to plan learning, teaching and assessment. Following this process can be useful in considering the role of digital at each step of planning.

The diagram below has interactive ‘hotspots’ with audio that explore how digital can be implemented at each step.

In this video, Hattie talks about the need for Learning Intentions and Success Criteria and that these are what learners are learning and NOT what they are doing. This is useful to consider when planning learning with digital  as opposed to planning learning of digital literacy.

Assignments (on Teams or Classroom) are an effective means to share LIs and SCs with learners.

When planning digital literacy (learning of) the digital literacy Es and Os from the Technologies curriculum should be used.

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.”

We agree with both of these points – digital allows us to store, collaborate and publish documents instantly and across the world. Being able to share planning this way means that we can get, and share, new ideas from a much wider setting than ever before. So, how can we implement digital in our planning for better collaboration?

Read the full paper

What is Microsoft PowerPoint?

Microsoft PowerPoint in Glow is a presentation app.

  • Create your own content, share, collaborate and distribute work to your learners or colleagues.
  • PowerPoint can be added to your Team or an existing O365 group.
  • Find out how you can make the most out of Microsoft PowerPoint within Glow by watching the videos below.

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This YouTube video includes an embedded playlist – use the playlist icon in the top-right of the video to view the full collection of videos.

What is Microsoft Word?

Microsoft Word in Glow is an app for creating and reading text.

  • Create your own content, share, collaborate and distribute work to your learners or colleagues.
  • Word can be added to your Team or an existing O365 group.
  • Find out how you can make the most out of Microsoft Word within Glow by watching the videos below.

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This YouTube video includes an embedded playlist – use the playlist icon in the top-right of the video to view the full collection of videos.

 

What is Microsoft OneDrive?

What is Microsoft OneDrive?

OneDrive can be used to store and share your files and folders.

  • It can host up to 1TB of materials for learning, teaching and professional development.
    You can work independently on a document with autosave ensure the latest version of your work is available anywhere, anytime.
    You can share and collaborate with others in real time.
    There are apps available for your Windows, iOS and Android devices if you do not wish to run the web based version.

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This YouTube video includes an embedded playlist – use the playlist icon in the top-right of the video to view the full collection of videos.

What is Microsoft Sway?

Sway can be used to create multimedia, interactive presentations

  • Sway allows you to create Digital Stories that flow beautifully, displaying interactive multimedia content.
  • The built in click and drag feature makes it easy to upload content from various sources.
  • Sway is intuitive and easy to navigate with simple menus.
  • You can unleash your creativity by designing your own look and feel.

 

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This YouTube video includes an embedded playlist – use the playlist icon in the top-right of the video to view the full collection of videos.

What is Microsoft OneNote?

Microsoft OneNote is a Digital Folder for all your notes and resources.

  • Use OneNote for your own work content, collaborate as a team or distribute work to your learners.
  • Find out how you can make the most out of Microsoft OneNote within Glow by watching the videos below.

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This YouTube video includes an embedded playlist – use the playlist icon in the top-right of the video to view the full collection of videos.