EdTech: Developing digital problem-solving skills
Developing independence in solving practical problems is an important life skill and essential for employment.
This module looks at how we can go beyond reliance on chance and build some of these events into the assignments, tasks and experiences we create, making a controlled space for confronting and coping with such problems, as individual learners or as groups.
Aim
To improve learners' digital problem solving
Objective
After completing this module you will:
- Be able to adopt a range of teaching approaches to help learners develop skills in solving problems with the digital tools and media they encounter
- Design learning activities that encourage the development of these skills and their application to other contexts or situations
Digital Teaching Professional Framework
This module covers the EdTech component - C2 : Supporting study skills
- Identify and solve technical problems when operating devices and using digital environments.
- Adjust and customise digital environments to personal needs.
- Identify, evaluate, select and use digital technologies and possible technological responses to solve a given task or problem.
- Use digital technologies in innovative ways to create learning.
- Understand where a learner's digital competence needs to be improved or updated.
- Support others in their digital competence development.
- Seek opportunities for selfdevelopment and to keep up-to-date with digital evolution.
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Encourage team building tasks using digital tech.
Interesting
Good module, thank you.
Questions in the quiz were subjective and I disagreed with most of the automated answers for a variety of reasons. Also, TeachThought link takes you to a page which doesn't exist!
This gives some ideas that I could take into my teaching in the future but it would be nice to have some more examples of how to plan and assess their problem solving digital skills for a variety of classes as i don't think this would work very well for lower level learners.
I found the questions did not really relate to the presentation, and as I have not used the software was more difficult.
A fair bit of digital tools that I have never used and only vaguely heard of before.
So the result is that my awareness of these has been somewhat enhanced!
Good
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OK.
Great ideas to use
Can be helpful for learners but may take time to get them used to the software programmes.
The ipsative, 'forced choice' approach, where learners have no choice but to continue working 'unplugged' throughout parts of their assignment is both imaginative and at the same time models the 'real world' where work cannot stop when the internet goes down.
This was interesting but frustrating - I didn't answer correctly, but felt confident in my answer choices. Oh well
Gives some useful pointers to a range of tools--and good links too.
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