EdTech: Finding digital resources online
The web is awash with sources of information and resources to support teaching and learning.
This module looks at ways to organise your search practice.
Aim
The module shows you how to find effective and efficient routes to online resource.
Objective
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Create an effective search strategy for resources
- Identify and use alternatives to search engines for finding resources
Digital Teaching Professional Framework
This module covers the EdTech component - A1 : Planning and looking for information - how can technology best support your planning?
- Formulate appropriate search strategies to identify digital resources for teaching and learning.
- Select suitable digital resources for teaching and learning, considering the specific learning context and learning objective.
- Critically evaluate the credibility and reliability of digital sources and resources.
- Consider possible restrictions to the use or re-use of digital resources (e.g. copyright, file type, technical requirements, legal provisions, accessibility).
- Assess the usefulness of digital resources in addressing the learning objective, the competence levels of the learner group as well as the teaching approach chosen.
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Feedback about this module
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Good introduction to what trustworthy resources are.
Good wasnt aware of some of the search sites i could use or had thought about specialist sites for sharing as well as finding
Useful links and ideas
dont understand
Good starting point but quite unclear
A good starting point
Poor site navigation. This training provided no new knowledge on source material or resource gathering beyond what was already known.
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This is one of the most horrible and un user friendly things I have had the miss fortune to have to engage with. I would not recommend it even to my dog|
still do not understand what the best ways are to find content
Very confused
Confusing
Useful in terms of where resources should be found and stored.
Difficult formative assessment
The matching exercise is too vague and confusing, your feedback makes reference to 'Social Media,' whereas your category choices does not include social media, only Educational repository.
You have an example of material found on Twitter (social media) that is classed as an example of 'Industry or specialist site'.
You have a category of 'Education Repository' but have not chosen an example that could clarify and confirm its meaning.
This course is a useful reminder to 'think outside the box' when it comes to searching for online resources. I will certainly explore some of the links given in the 'Further Resources' section, and I will try to remember to bookmark any interesting websites and sources, so that I can access the information quickly whenever I need to.
Good
The first instinct is always to go to Google, but there will always be a repository of previously used sites to go back to. With experience you collect a series of sites that you return to for tried and tested resources.
Useful content - thank you
Great
useful
Not particularly useful common sense really
already knew the content of the module
Some really useful resources and suggestions in here. Thank you.
Useful module, although it could benefit from more examples.
some interesting informative information.
Some good points
It is true that a google search does not always get you what you want and sometimes you have to think of ways to search more successfully.
Activity wasnt useful as it didnt state which answers were incorrect and lead the user to believe that they all were which was inconsistent with the answers
Too subjective
The answers are interchangeable on here and all resources could be found in a variety of different places.
Answers should not be marked wrong just because they don't match with your opinion
It was an eye-opener that search engines are not the best sources for resources
Really useful! Pointed me in the direct of BLC and it is great to see the resources available on there.
This unit despite completing using the feedback answers still states it is incorrect how can you complete if this is the case
Useful resources but again the answers are debatable and questions confusing. It wasn't clear you didn't have to use all the category boxes.
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