Category: Digital Learning and Teaching

enhancing learning and teaching with digital

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.

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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.

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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.

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Teams Assignments are an effective way to share learning activities with learners – share learning intentions, activity instructions and assessment feedback in one place.

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Whiteboard allows your learners to share ideas and understanding with pre-made mind-mapping layouts (effective for scaffolding thinking) and post-it notes

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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)

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O365 Teams allows you to work together by sharing files or with video calls

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O365 OneDrive can be used to create and collaborate on documents together.

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digital HGIOS features of highly effective digital in learning teaching and assessment

Features of Highly Effective Digital Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Schools

This document outlines the features of high-quality digital learning experiences for all children and young people. It highlights the importance of highly-skilled staff who work with children, young people and others to ensure digital learning is motivating and meaningful.

It has been designed for use primarily by L.A. staff, senior leaders, school leaders, practitioners.

 

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Christmas Activity Booklets for Early, First and Second Level – North Lanarkshire Digital Pathfinders

The North Lanarkshire Digital Pathfinder Team have created these digital Christmas Activity Booklets for Early, First and Second level.

Book Creator was used to create the booklets as it allows children to access the books independently at home or in school. The booklets are a more sustainable method to accessing a range of Christmas activities across the curriculum and can help to reduce photocopying. The learners have enjoyed using this resource as it allows them to engage with different digital media. The booklets also provide the opportunity for the learner to consolidate their digital skills and use personalisation and choice when completing the activities.

Assessing Numeracy and Maths with Forms

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

What is Google Forms? – DigiLearn (glowscotland.org.uk)

Forms can be used to create Quizzes (which allow assessment and feedback) or Forms (which collect information, such as evaluations). They can contain text, images and videos, which makes them engaging and accessible to more learners. A Quiz can also be set with correct answers and this will automatically assess and provide feedback to learners, which is ideal for metacognition. They are easy to duplicate and share between staff which can support moderation, ensure assessment is proportional and comparable between classes or levels.

cyber in numeracy and mathematics

Cyber in Numeracy and Mathematics

Mind Your Money

 

When so much spending is done online, or digitally even when in-store, surely it makes sense that we explore how cyber resilience can help us look after our finances? The UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing aims for more ‘children and young people getting a meaningful financial education’ and we believe that cyber resilience forms a significant part of this.

This presentation explores the links between financial education and cyber resilience and ideas, such as:

  • explore how to make better spending decisions
  • understand how advertisers and influencers encourage us to spend our money
  • learn effective strategies to keep our money as safe and secure as possible

By taking the time to understand how children and young people spend their time and money online, while reflecting on their own online habits, practitioners can make learning more reflective and representative of what their learners experience. By linking these curricular areas, the learning becomes more engaging, relevant and realistic.

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Cryptography


Cryptography is the study of constructing and analysing protocols that prevent third parties or the public from reading private messages. Encryption is used to secure our digital devices and services – whether that’s passwords, emails or social media – it takes information or data and disguises (encrypts) it, so that only the person who is supposed to access it can (be decrypting).

This wakelet contains links to cryptography resources that may be engaging for learners in numeracy and mathematics, computing science or social studies contexts – for example, Alan Turing and the mathematicians at Bletchley Park who decrypted hidden messages during WWII.

There are lots of other examples of encryption and cyphers throughout history – do you know of any?