Coordinating Digital Learning in Dungarvan CBS
Video Overview
Dungarvan CBS Waterford outline how they coordinated digital learning within the school, focusing on the areas of Digital Literacy and Digital Learning with the support from the Digital Learning Team at Oide Technology in Education. They outline the practical support and steps followed to ensure the school infrastructure worked to support their Digital Learning Plan.
Description
Tara Whelan at Dungarvan CBS Waterford outlines how they coordinated digital learning within the school, focusing on the areas of Digital Literacy and Digital Learning with the support from the Digital Learning Team at Oide Technology in Education. She outlines the practical support and steps followed to ensure the school infrastructure worked to support their Digital Learning Plan. Examining WiFi, devices, and upskilling the staff and students in software they are using through lunchtime staff support sessions and in class student supports. Their TY Digital Leaders team supports the whole school management of digital devices. A centralised ICT/software system allows staff to log any issues and an IT technician linked to this form allows swift resolution of these. A link to outside agencies coming into the school is being established to allow specialised teaching and learning in areas like robotics.
Apply for Sustained School Support from the Oide Digital Technologies team here: https://dms.oide.ie/support/login
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Digital Learning Framework
This video supports the following statements of the Digital Learning Framework (DLF):
Teaching & Learning (1 Learner Outcomes)
1.1 Statement: Students use appropriate digital technologies to foster active, creative and critical engagement in attaining challenging learning outcomes.
- Students use digital technologies to collect evidence and record progress.
2.2 Students grow as learners through respectful interactions and experiences that are challenging and supportive
- Digital interactions, among students and between students and teachers, are respectful and positive, and conducive to well-being.
Teaching & Learning (2. Learner Experiences)
- 1 Standard: Students engage purposefully in meaningful learning activities
Students use digital technologies for sourcing, exchanging of information to develop understanding and support basic knowledge creation.
Teachers’ Individual Practice
3.1 Standard: The teacher has the requisite subject knowledge, pedagogical knowledge and classroom management skills
Teachers Collaborative Practice
4.1 Standard: Teachers value and engage in professional development and professional collaboration
4.4 Teachers contribute to building whole- staff capacity by sharing their expertise
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