EdTech: Being confident
Confidence in your digital practice comes from success: success in improving your teaching and learning rather than being good with gadgets.
This requires the capacity for personal critical reflection and a means to share what you did with colleagues, at your workplace and in wider communities of practice.
You need the confidence to build other people's innovations into your practice and adapt them to your purpose.
This module looks at how to become a force for positive change through your own practice.
Aim
This module will help you build confidence in sharing your digital teaching practice with colleagues and other practitioners
Objective
At the end of this module you will be able to:
- Critically reflect on your digital teaching practice, identifying innovative examples that would help others
- Expose and share your own innovative practice and adopt that of others in a community of peers
- Guide others in identifying opportunities and methods to share their digital teaching practice
Digital Teaching Professional Framework
This module covers the EdTech component - G2 : Progression and CPD: strategies to develop digital skills and pedagogy
- Use online resources or social media to identify suitable training and professional development opportunities.
- Use online resources or social media to update one's subject-specific competences.
- Use online resources or social media to learn about new teaching methods and strategies.
- Use online resources or social media to search for and identify digital resources which support professional development.
- Use the exchange in digital professional communities as a source of professional development.
- Use online training opportunities, e.g. video tutorials, MOOCs, webinars etc.
- Use digital technologies and environments to provide training opportunities for colleagues and peers.
- Use professional collaborative networks as a source for one's own professional development.
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Short, snappy and excellent- 'it's pedagogical outcomes not technical competence that counts'... and turn 'fear' into curiosity.
very useful
Short, but sweet
Very helpful and got me to consider how i use technology such as google classroom and google sites
like it, short, snappy, with some sound advice.
Clear, bite-sized, practical information.
An excellent taster that simply aims to encourage confidence and curiosity. Recommended.
Thumbs Up
good to reflect on what i feel confident in doing and what i need to work on in the future
A really good way to assess my own practice and how this could be developed further.
Concise but re-assuring, reminding you of areas that you already use.
Not easy to follow as again it is based on the technical abilities of teachers when using digital tools and skills in the learning environment.
felt the course reflected the need to be confident however felt it didn't cover in enough detail. Aimed at teachers but everyone should be confident with technology as it progresses and becomes a major part of all our working and home lives.
A concise yet informative module!
Was short but helpful.
Confidence is the key.
It did make me think about what I've done so far and what I could introduce
So important that technology serves teaching - I loved the starting quote "Confidence in your digital practice comes from success: success in improving your teaching and learning rather than being good with gadgets."
Really grounded and affirmative messages for the technophobes and technosceptics.
Overview of being confident with tech
Links to Pearltrees etc very useful , as I had never heard of them.
Good advice in a changing world
Short and useful session
Interesting module.
Thank you very useful,
Good module that looks at confidence. I do not fear new technology for teaching I am rather curious and like to learn about new software or apps to use in my teaching practice. I love watching YouTube videos e.g. How to use Google Jamboard or Google Breakout rooms.
Good
short course
Really liked this module starting point to my current practice and changes currently being implemented and my own CPD IT needs
Very thoughtful, I like the idea of being curious about new things rather than being fearful.
A good module to encourage reflection in practice relating to how learners and tutors can engage in more meaningful practice and feedback.
A good bite-sized overview of how digital technology is changing pedagogy.
short and sweet.
Helps you think but not too detailed
Interesting information about feeling confident with the things we use to teach and trying new approaches.
Very Informative
Found this useful.
Excellent really enjoyed that
Inspiring
Good to remember that you do not have to be an expert to use and try out new technologoes
This has given an in site of the type of digital tools that can be made available to help with learner when attendance is an issue
The idea of confidence using technology doesn't necessarily come from being gifted in how it works, but about our openness in its use is refreshing and comforting.
It is not exactly what I expected. It is not as innovative as it could be. It does give you useful information how to progress your teaching career and help your students and other teachers.
A clear and concise approach to the topic.
Easy to use and understand.
useful
interesting
I might be biased.... nevertheless, thoroughly enjoyed it!
The animation is inspiring and gives clear guidance on how to build self-confidence in using EdTech to enhance TLA. Does it add value to the learning experience? The learning activities also encourage professional practice self-reflection. This is a module I will be sharing at the Blended Learning Consortium Conference on 1st July 2019
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