Digital Learning
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This document discusses digital and traditional learning, highlighting how learning can take place anytime, anywhere using any technological device. It encourages motivation, engagement, creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, communication, decision making, and problem solving. While digital learning provides access to information, tools for project-based learning and presentation skills, traditional learning like pen and paper are still relevant. Tablets can be used to write compositions and disseminate syllabus in different ways, encouraging lifelong learning. Tablets are an important tool for teaching and learning through collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity, citizenship and character education. The document outlines health concerns around digital learning and provides tips for parents.
Digital Learning
- 2. 2 Digital and Traditional Learning Learning can take place ANYTIME, ANYWHERE & ANY TECHNOLOGICAL DEVICE
- 3. Free powerpoint template: www.brainybetty.com Encourages: •Learning motivation & student engagement •Enhances creativity & critical thinking •Collaboration & communication opportunities •Decision making & problem solving •Project based learning Digital Learning
- 4. 4 Students have: •Immediate access to information •Choice and availability of reading material •Tools to create artefacts for Project based learning •Different options of presentation skills. Through Digital Learning…
- 5. • Internet sites suggested by teachers and online HW are as relevant as traditional HW • Writing can also be digital (eg: writing a composition on a tablet) • Tablet is not going to replace pen and paper. 5
- 6. Free powerpoint template: www.brainybetty.com 6 …Important Considerations • Syllabus will remain the same but disseminated in different ways. • Use of tablets encourages lifelong learning.
- 7. 7 Tablets ... An important tool for teaching and learning …. • Collaboration • Communication • Critical Thinking • Creativity • Citizenship (digital) • Character Education
- 8. 8 Collaboration •Students use technology and media to work in teams and collaborate in learning. •They discuss and learn from each other, take decisions to construct and create resources. Collaboration can be face to face or online.
- 10. 10 Critical Thinking The learner improves his/her thinking by: • analysing, assessing, reconstructing it. Critical thinking is self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective. It entails effective communication and problem-solving abilities,
- 11. 11 Creativity •Digital tools encourage and enable students increase their artistic expression in a way that was not possible before. •A tablet per child gives the opportunity to express their original ideas with media.
- 12. 12 Citizenship (digital) • Protect private information for themselves and others. • Respect themselves and others in online communities. • Stay safe online by listening to their gut feelings. • Stand up to cyberbullying when they see it happening. • Balance the time they spend using media and doing other activities.
- 13. 13 Character Education • Trustworthiness • Respect • Responsibility • Fairness • Caring
- 14. Digital footprint • Anything you put online such as pictures, videos and comments are recorded and may be accessed from anyone anywhere and will remain available forever. • What you put online can affect your reputation in the present and future.
- 15. 15 …Digital footprint •As parents we need to guide children by being involved ourselves and aware of their online activities .
- 16. 16 Behaviour which intentionally hurts, irritates or humiliates others on the internet such as using email or text messages. Actions: • Print screen of chat messages, inappropriate material etc...as proof • Speak up with a trustful adult • Report abuse to www.besmartonline.org.mt www.childwebalert.gov.mt • Video: 5 Ways to Stop Cyberbullies Cyberbullying
- 17. Health Related Concerns •Amount of screen time • Tablets held closer than PCs • High gloss devices add eye strain • Setting house rules for device use • Parents and carers should lead example
- 18. 18 Health Related Concerns Posture - Take posture breaks every 20- 30 minutes. Sit in an upright position taking care of your neck and back.
- 19. 19 Monitor - age appropriate content and as parents try to involve themselves in what the children are seeing. Health Related Concerns
- 20. 20 Thank You! “Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is most important.” – Bill Gates
Editor's Notes
- #4: Traditional methods may be boring (less motivating) than digital learning. Digital tools, like tablets, give immediate access to information. So students don’t have to go to the library or buy books to access information. Games encourage motivation, fun and problem-solving skills. Reading ebooks may be more fun due to their interactivity as opposed to paper books. In traditional learning, it is more difficult to work on projects especially on a collaborative basis Digital tools help students be more creative, such as different apps Digital presentations help the speaker capture the audience attention.