EdTech: Independent learners: developing skills for content creation
Learner created content is a foundation stone of the shift from dependence to independence and on further to the collaborative interdependence that characterises modern employment. This module looks at ways that teachers can support development of the necessary skills, behaviours and attitudes to bring this about.
Aim
How to develop learners’ content creation skills to develop independent learning
Objective
After completing the module, you will be able to: - Support independent and collaborative content creation by learners - Adopt learner created content into your teaching, learning and assessment practice
Digital Teaching Professional Framework
This module covers the EdTech component - C1b : Creating content
- Create and edit digital content in different formats.
- Express themselves through digital means.
- Modify, refine, improve and integrate information and content into an existing body of knowledge.
- Create new, original and relevant content and knowledge.
- Understand how copyright and licences apply to data, information and digital content.
- Plan and develop a sequence of understandable instructions to solve a given problem or perform a specific task.
- Share data, information and digital content with others through appropriate digital technologies.
- Know about referencing and attribution practices.
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Students begin the course and are very dependent on the teacher. By the end they should build confidence with the course content and become interdependent.
Very interesting as it explains the stages of independence
Excellent module!
This unit gives some useful suggestions to solutions for teaching and learning with students of different ability's.
completed
Useful and practical ideas.
Really good module , many thanks.
A great module to reflect on how to foster learner independence!
A good module that will make me reflect on my own teaching practices
Very informative to work with learner developing learning independence and interdependency.
Thought-provoking
Short, sweet and straight to the point.
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