EdTech: Extending your digital skills
We all have a preferred set of tools, apps and software that we use for teaching and learning. Making sure you know how to use this to the best of its ability is the first step to effective teaching and learning with technology.
Then, it’s time to extend your range. There are countless technologies, apps, tools, gadgets, tip and tricks to explore. This module looks at a structured way to review the possibilities by using a LearningWheel.
Aim
How to extend and widen your digital skills and toolkit to support learning and professional practice
Objective
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Review your current digital skills and the tools and software you use in practice
- Identify gaps and opportunities to extend your digital toolkit and skillset
Digital Teaching Professional Framework
This module covers the EdTech component - G1 : Self-assessment and reflection
- Critically reflect on one's own teaching and digital practice.
- Identify competency gaps and areas for improvement.
- Seek the help of others in improving one's teaching and digital practice.
- Seek targeted training and use opportunities for continuous professional development.
- Seek to continuously expand and enhance one's repertoire of digital teaching practices.
- Help others in developing their digital teaching competence.
- At the organisational level, reflect on and provide critical feedback on digital policies and practices.
- Actively contribute to further developing organisational practices, policies and visions on the use of digital technologies.
- Use professional collaborative networks to explore and reflect on new teaching practices and methods.
This module inspired the following reflection
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Not interested in twitter!
Weak assessment activity. Tweeting links to Quizlet can be learning content if assessment for learning (AfL). More than one way to answer this.
I admire the idea of the Learning Wheel, the imagery lets a lot of info be used in one diagram. Looks like the site hasn't been updated in a while - where's the wheel (or wheels) for Google tools?
The learning wheel.
Good Course
Unfortunately, though this module was really useful, the learningwheel resources doesn't seem to work. I was looking forward to learning more.
A minor detail but it's a shame that the word 'collaboration' has not been spelt correctly (on the wheel) in the video clip.
website doesn't seem to exist any more
The Learning Wheel website link doesn't work, and the Learning Wheel report is restricted access
Challenging unit , many thanks
This is something I am going to use
While knowing fully how your chosen teaching technology works using lots of different teaching methods or styles can be counter productive for leaners. Sticking to just a few different methods that the learners expects is perhaps more beneficial just as learners don't like changing teachers every few months changing teaching styles to lots of different technologies can be disruptive.
This was very difficult to do - the matching exercise was not reflected in the video, so I had to go elsewhere (learning wheel website) to find the answers. You could say that the assessment of this model was impossible since the four ideas were not expanded on or explained in the video. Very strange.
I don't think this module in particular will encourage me to use or learn about digital skills more in the future. I'm more likely to avoid it. Though I like the ideas there are too many new things here that will put me off.
btw: collaboration, not collaberation
Interesting topic, with a few good ideas to consider. Liked the Learning wheel a useful tool.
Really useful resource https://learningwheel.co.uk/
A really useful module. It is useful that you can see Twitter Learning wheel completely. The additional links point to The Learning Wheel site, unfortunately some of the links there are broken - this is of course outside ETF's control.
Not easy to be enthused
Learning wheels are great for combining technology and pedagogy. Would have been worth having a link to the TPACK model as well - https://www.schoology.com/blog/tpack-framework-explained.
The quiz activity made a bit of an assumption that people would know what TurnItIn was or what @TurnItIn represented...
But learning wheels are still great
informative
"Collaboration" is spelt wrongly on the Learning Wheel graphic.
Great module on extending your digital skills. Highly relevant to me as I'm a digital skills lecturer. I am resetting the module to complete the exercise again. I intend to complete a learning wheel for my area of teaching digital skills to adults. Moving onto the 4 Ms module. Thanks!
Even if answers don't match the unit, your own interpretation will still make a useful personal/team teaching tool
The 'Learning wheel' site was interesting to view and suggested a few possible sites/ideas. The idea of knowing your basic toolkit fully is a noble one, but with new apps and sites coming online constantly there is always the new ideal to look into.
Good
Reasonable.
Really enjoyed this module!
I liked the idea and use of the Learning Wheel and associated 'Prezi' resource which details this theory in more detail.
However when I clicked to download my reflection notes, the document was titled 'Referencing and attribution
practice for learners' instead of 'Extending your digital skills'?
Good start but will need to utilise and practice with resources - so have done that
The animation raises your awareness of the learning wheels and underpinning framework: Communication, Collaboration, Learning Content & Assessment. The Further Resources give good pointers to these too.
The learning activity which focused on the Twitter learning wheel would have been better designed with a multiple choice activity.
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Further resources from other sites
An extensive Prezi presentation by Deborah Kelsey Millar that walks you...
The LearningWheel website.
The Twitter LearningWheel report: How to use Twitter to engage your...
The LearningWheel Twitter account with links to resources and...