My Digital Toolbox

EP404Session 4

Session aims

• To examine what tools we already carry in our digital toolkits and discuss their potential

• To examine how we can extend our digital toolkits in order to support our professional learning

• To reflect on our digital profiles and consider how we can develop these to project more positive professional identities

What’s in your digital toolbox?

Infographic courtesy of Samantha Penney, samantha.penney@gmail.com

Sharing digital tools for learning

Activity:Add your suggested digital tools to the Google doc for your group:

1E1 goo.gl/sushw21E2 goo.gl/aQYVk71P1 goo.gl/8uW2fG1P2 goo.gl/7DyiL31P3 goo.gl/HziWju1P4 goo.gl/hxLI0r

Learning to help ourselves

How many Interactive Whiteboard ‘how to’ videos are there on YouTube or Vimeo?

How can you ensure that you maintain a proactive approach to learning?

Digital technologies in schools

The DfE provides guidance on the use of digital technologies in schools:• education.gov.uk/schools/teachingandlearnin

g/curriculum/a00201823/digital-technology-in-schools

What does your online profile say about you?

Developing your professional identity

Activities:• Google yourself. • Does what you find project a positive identity?• Consider how you could improve your online profile

to project a more positive/professional identity.• Review your own personal privacy settings on all the

social networks you use to ensure that they support a positive professional identity.

• What would you do if you got a friend request from a pupil or parent?

• What should I do if someone posts inappropriate photos of me?

• What should I do if I see inappropriate content of my pupils?

• Can I use sites like Facebook and Twitter in school?

Social networking dilemmas

Guidance for trainee teachers

Read Social Networking: a guide for trainee teachers and NQTs:

http://www.childnet.com/resources/social-networking-a-guide-for-teachers-and-professionals

goo.gl/YqYCiZ

Academic piece for support tutor

By Nov 15th of November write and upload to PebblePad, 500 words on “Strategies for effective group work”.

As you only have a few words in which to demonstrate some critical depth, you might want to recognise in the first paragraph the limitations of your work. It might be prudent to focus in on just one aspect of group work, for example conflict resolution, in order to show some depth of thinking.

LNG task w/c 4th November

Share your academic writing and support each other by checking the following:

• Is the tone formal rather can conversational• Is the grammar and punctuation accurate• Does the structure help the writers ideas to flow• Does it make sense• Is there a tendency to overuse any one particular word, for example the

word ‘so’ • Are any key ideas backed up with evidence, either from reading or

personal experience• Is the Harvard Referencing system applied accurately• Does the writer have anything to say or does is just describe group work