Karen Gowlett

Twitter Profile: @karen_gowlett
Essex County Council - Adult Community Learning Essex
Member since September 2020
  5 modules rated
  6 modules completed
  2 badges earned

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Recently Rated

Accommodating different levels of digital skills
This lesson has been learned this year - but it takes time and knowledge to provide low and high tech resources. We need to share those created and evaluate how easy learners find them.
4/5
Using digital tools to reflect and review professional practice
Thought provoking about the uses of an online CPD log. Need something easy to use, upload to and share. Wakelet could be good.
3/5
Recording teaching sessions
A good starting point with options for different types of recording. I like the idea of recording a presentation done before the actual lesson. Include lesson plans and notes in the reflective conversation so it is reviewed as a learning experience and not as a dramatic performance.
edited on 2nd July 2021
3/5
Ensuring personal wellbeing
Thought provoking about making sure the digital space and work is not oppressive and it works well for learners. In the first year of online teaching, that was difficult to achieve but we can do more now that we know what works well, what can be flipped etc
4/5
Managing Personal Workload
Interesting break down of colleague, learner, me and admin time. Important to regard me time as important: blocking our diary for thinking and planning has stopped me rushing from one meeting to the next with nothing planned.
3/5

Modules Completed

Accommodating different levels of digital skills

Framework
EdTech.
Category
Dealing with Difference and Diversity.
Level
Exploring.
Average rating
3.6 out of 5.
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The diversity of learners extends to differences in their levels of digital skills, experience and confidence. This module looks at ways to ensure that our teaching does not disadvantage those with existing low levels of digital skills.

Using digital tools to reflect and review professional practice

Framework
EdTech.
Category
PLD: Using Technology.
Level
Leading.
Average rating
3.6 out of 5.
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Reflecting on, then acting to improve professional effectiveness is part of every teacher’s practice. Technology provides a means to support the management of every aspect of the Professional & Learning Development (CPD) cycle and, in the process, improve the management and...

Recording teaching sessions

Framework
EdTech.
Category
PLD: Using Technology.
Level
Leading.
Average rating
3.8 out of 5.
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A recorded teaching session can provide real opportunities for improving your teaching practice, especially if you share it with colleagues in a quality circle or improvement group where you all watch each other's recordings to review and reflect upon them. This module looks at some of...

Ensuring personal wellbeing

Framework
EdTech.
Category
Connected and Effective.
Level
Leading.
Average rating
3.9 out of 5.
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Wellbeing refers to our sense of self and our ability to live our lives as closely as possible to the way we want to. Digital wellbeing describes the contribution of technology to wellbeing and includes home working and remote learning, but there are potential risks to wellbeing in using technology.

Managing Personal Workload

Framework
EdTech.
Category
Connected and Effective.
Level
Leading.
Average rating
3.9 out of 5.
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Remote working from home takes place beyond the reach of the reassuring formal structures and patterns of teaching and learning and the professional and social interaction with colleagues and learners that goes with it.

Using devices

Framework
EDS.
Category
Using devices and handling information.
Level
.
Average rating
4.2 out of 5.
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This module looks at the basic components of personal computing through the use of the various devices, the systems that run on them, setting them up as preferred and keeping them in good order.