LEVERAGING DIGITAL
Educator Self-Assessment
Limited
Evidence
Learning Design includes limited student access and use of digital and is focused on low level or shallow use. Digital is often a substitution for traditional learning approaches.
Use of digital does not yet enable students to interact with each other and does not advance Deep Learning outcomes.
Digital citizenship and personal safety have not been addressed in the learning design.
Emerging
Accelerating
The learning design provides access to digital to encourage student motivation, engagement and connection to local and global sources.
Digital provides new opportunities for students to reflect, share, communicate and further develop Deep Learning outcomes.
The learning design addresses digital citizenship and personal safety
The learning design includes digital to encourage student motivation, engagement and connection to local and global sources at any time.
Digital provides explicit and flexible opportunities for students to reflect, share, communicate and further develop Deep Learning outcomes.
The learning design is clear about digital citizenship and personal safety and monitors this effectively.
Advanced
The learning design includes digital seamlessly and authentically to encourage student motivation, engagement, and connection locally and globally.
Digital amplifies innovation enabling students to achieve something that was otherwise not possible. Digital normalizes channels for reflection, sharing, communication and knowledge building in the learning design.
The learning design incorporates processes to ensure students exercise a high degree of digital citizenship and personal safety for themselves and others
Student-Initiated Digital Tools
Students communicated to me which digital tools they used on the whiteboard.
Slides Go provides free templates for students to use for Slides presentations. Some students used Google Slides to document their learning.
Students filmed, edited, and shared short video content using Tiktok.
Students communicated to me which digital tools they used on the whiteboard.
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Educator-Initiated Digital Tools
Hāpara Workspace is our Board Learning Management System. Here I created a workspace for this project and filled it with resources. Students were able to add their own cards to document their learning and progress. This is where students submitted their final work and self-evaluations.
Our Board is a Google-tools board. I used Docs to create the assignments and instructions. I used Sheets to track student progress and conferencing, and Slides together with Peardeck to solicit student feedback, and Slides to document an overall class daily agenda.
Grammarly is a Google Chrome extension used to spell/grammar-check, edit and revise writing.
Hāpara Workspace is our Board Learning Management System. Here I created a workspace for this project and filled it with resources. Students were able to add their own cards to document their learning and progress. This is where students submitted their final work and self-evaluations.
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Reflection
Many digital tools and websites were provided to students to enhance their learning. Our Board has a significant number of digital applications that students are familiar with, so they already had ideas of which tools could help them achieve their ideas. At this point, Artificial Intelligence is so new and is a concern for inappropriate use and academic honesty, so we spent some time going over what appropriate and inappropriate use looks like. We talked about how the AI generates content and what it means to demonstrate our own knowledge. Student also had ownership of the Hāpara Workspace and were able to add their own cards with their work and ideas.
Student Voice
"Digital use was a big part of this guided inquiry which is why I think it should be placed in Accelerating/Advanced but I feel it would have been better to learn different ways to use technology to our advantage rather than using mediums we have already used many times before."
"Doing this digitally was very interesting and allowed for us to learn to use new resources."