THE LEARNING WITH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES PROJECT

Our innovative learning consultancy is based on advancing through the e-Learning Planning Framework, which is a self-review tool for schools on all aspects of e-learning.  There are five dimensions to this framework:

• Leadership and strategic direction
• Teaching and learning
• Professional learning
• Technologies and infrastructure
• Beyond the classroom

All of these five areas contribute to a school's capability to deliver effective e-learning programmes which ultimately lead to the main focus - improving student achievement for all students.


What are our goals? 

ACTIVITY: Spend ten minutes exploring the enabling e-learning web site, find out something that interests you and share with three other people.

The SAMR model helps us to think about how we can integrate technology on different levels and make the most of the opportunities they bring.  The stages in the SAMR model are:

• Substitution, where a new technology substitutes a traditional way of doing things, like a word processor used to write and print a story
• Augmentation, where there is some extra functionality used, such as that author using the spell checker for their story
• Modification, where there is significant task re-design, such as a group of students collaborating on the editing of that story
• Redefinition, where the entire task can be re-imagined, such as the story being co-created with a student in another part of the world and then published with a Creative Commons licence to be shared and re-imagined by a different group.

THANK YOU TO ESTHER CASEY FOR THIS IMAGE

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