Category: this is digital webinars

assessing and feeding forward clpl

This is Digital CLPL programme: assessing learning and feeding forward

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Reading and watching

This episode of CLPL focuses on the elements to consider when assessing learning and providing ‘feed forward’. 

  • Using digital technology to capture a range of assessment evidence
  • Designing assessments that effectively and fairly assess the skills and knowledge of learners
  • Providing feedback that informs improvements in learners

Local Assessment Resource (LAR)

Discussion points

To enable more effective and meaningful discussions during the webinar, please consider your thoughts on these points beforehand:

  • What would learning look like without jotters?
  • How can digital ensure that the assessment matches the learnign and fairly captures skills and knowledge
  • Using digital to provide feedback that informs improvements in learners

planning and resourcing learning clpl

This is Digital CLPL programme: planning and resourcing learning

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Reading and watching

This episode of CLPL focuses on the elements to consider when planning and resourcing lessons with digital. 

  • How does digital make learning more accessible
  • Using the SAMR model to make learning more relevant and engaging
  • How dual coding resources and learning content can make learning more effective

Accessibility

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) states that:

  • A child with a disability has the right to live a full and decent life with dignity and, as far
    as possible, independence and to play an active part in the community. (Article 23)
  • Every child has the right to an education. (Article 28)
  • Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full. (Article 29)

 

SAMR

SAMR (substitution, augmentation, modification and redefinition) was developed by Dr R. Puentedura, following research into how the use of digital technology was transforming classroom-based teaching and learning (JISC, 2022)

The SAMR Model: Effective Technology Integration in Classrooms

 

Dual coding

Dual Coding is an excellent strategy that learners can employ to aid learning and revision, however, practitioners can employ the same strategy when developing materials for learners.

dual coding

Discussion points

To enable more effective and meaningful discussions during the webinar, please consider your thoughts on these points beforehand:

  • Is it worth the time to make learning more accessible or engaging?
  • How long do you typically spend looking for resources online? Is it time well spent?
  • What skills do your learners need to access digital tools, such as accessibility ones?

delivering learning clpl

This is Digital CLPL programme: delivering learning

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Reading and watching

This episode of CLPL focuses on the elements to consider when designing and delivering lessons with digital. 

Creativity

These documents are central to embedding creativity in Scottish edcuation:

And this is internationally-recognised:

HOTS

Digital should enhance the learning (this may require new modes as explored in episode 2 with SAMR) and central to that is digital’s power to make learning more personalised to the individual learner and enabling them to make realistic products that can be shared with a relevant audience.

Blooms Taxonomy Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching

Discussion points

To enable more effective and meaningful discussions during the webinar, please consider your thoughts on these points beforehand:

  • How can we be more creative in the class?
  • How does this affect our learners?
  • How can digital support our learners be more independent?

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.

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)

learner at computer

preparing for learning clpl

This is Digital CLPL programme: preparing for learning

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Reading and watching

This episode of CLPL focuses on the rationale for using, or not using, digital technology in learning. An Education Endowment Foundation report in 2021 states that:

  • Effective use of digital technology is driven by learning and teaching goals rather than a specific technology​
  • ​New technology does not automatically lead to increased attainment​
  • Pupils’ motivation to use technology ≠ more effective learning

So, if digital does not intrinsically enhance learning then why do we use it?

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.”

This session will outline the expectation of the programme that ideas and resources are shared between participants but also with the wider teaching community.

Read the full paper

Discussion points

To enable more effective and meaningful discussions during the webinar, please consider your thoughts on these points beforehand:

  • Examples of interesting practice you have done or witnessed
  • How digital fits into other approaches, such as flipped learning, tapestry or retrieval practice
  • The standards and expectations you have for learners when using digital in class or at home​