Range of Platforms

Leading Innovation Professional Dialogue

As part of my interview process,  I presented project ideas that would help to lead innovation throughout the following year.

The first of these was suggesting the use of the Digital Classrooms as a transitional tool, providing high quality learning across the pupils within North Lanarkshire wishing to sit Higher and Advanced Highers across the curriculum.

The provision of teachers with strong foundational/specialised/ digital training was the second of my ideas. Such teachers would enable and support the learning, teaching and assessment which should be key and high on the NL Digital Schools priority. This training is currently in place as optional training and, come next session of 2024/2025, training sessions will become mandatory.

The final idea I presented was that the development of high quality resources should continue to support embedding the NL Digital Pathways in all schools. In line with this, an enquiry would be created to determine the amount of schools using the pathways and encourage those not using them  to have a discussion around changing their practice. By putting these measures in place, we should then start to see positive changes in VSE and HMIE inspection scores.

Tinkering with Sphero Indi – Recorded Content

Tech Tuesdays are resources and videos created to support practitioners teaching Digital Literacy and Computing Science in the classroom. New Tech Tuesday resources (Early to Second Level) are uploaded every Tuesday, but can be accessed at any time. They can be completed/undertaken by individual learners, groups of learners or delivered to a whole class.

Members of the NL Digital Pedagogy Practitioner team create a video lessons and activity guide that allow both practitioners and learners to undertake each activity. In the video lessons, viewers are introduced to the relevant learning before being walking through each step of the activity. The Activity Guides complement the videos by providing a brief introduction to, and summary of, the task, the learning outcomes and curricular links. They also offer ways to support and challenge your learners, as well as suggesting activities where the learning or skills from the lesson can be used in other curricular areas.

Each Tech Tuesday resource links to North Lanarkshire Council’s Digital Literacy and Computing Science Pathway planners. These interactive planners are updated regularly to provide direct links to the current Tech Tuesday content.

Using Mark Up – Interdisciplinary Learning

Whilst teaching I regularly utilise digital technologies across the curriculum to make my teaching fun, engaging and embedded with digital and subject learning. The example above/provided shows how pupils used MarkUp to annotate and map answers from some Data Science encrypted questions they had been given. I have also applied the skill of using MarkUp in reading lessons, to highlight text and add notes and in maths lessons, to plot co-ordinates and answer various questions.