EdTech: Learner-led activity
Using technology to enable and support learner-led activity is a good way to develop these skills in an engaging way. Allowing learners to direct some of their own learning can drive significant improvement in outcomes and engagement.
This module pairs with and precedes the module Staff and Learner Partnerships.
Aim
The module shows you how to make use of technology to support learner-led activity.
Objective
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Identify opportunities to develop and support learner-led activity
- Schedule activities and assessment opportunities to incorporate learner-led activity
Digital Teaching Professional Framework
This module covers the EdTech component - B2 : Teaching context: face-to-face
- Use learning environment technologies to support teaching, e.g. electronic whiteboards, mobile devices.
- Structure sessions so that different (practitioner-led and learner-led) digital activities jointly reinforce the learning objective.
- Structure and manage content, collaboration and interaction in a digital environment.
- Consider how practitioner-led digital interventions can best support the learning objective.
- Reflect on the effectiveness and appropriateness of the digital teaching strategies chosen and flexibly adjust methods and strategies.
- Experiment with and develop new formats and teaching methods (e.g. flipped classroom).
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time to reflect on my own practice
Good
a good module
This looks pretty awesome, (especially Flipgrid). Will test it out.
Refreshed knowledge on thread learning.
Introduction to flipgrid is great!
Not a bad module but could go further with more examples/
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