principles

=Principles for Digital Teaching & Learning= (based on 25+ years teaching with, through and around digital technologies of all hues) > - Need to handle issue of student and teacher diversity > - While what can be achieved will be influenced by learning objectives, facilitating structures, resource allocations, and evaluation criteria considerations, these should not be used as crutches > - Threshold Concept Digital Learning grid provides structure for development ([|threshold concepts and digital learning.pdf]) > > - Standardised outcomes for ranking is so 20thC > - Students 'Learning how to Learn' as responsible learners develop lifelong learning attributes > > - for new skills, approaches, values and connections including new information skills, multimedia expression, identity formation, visual literacy, digital citizenship, design literacy & purposeful application, and understanding digtech's potential and limits in a fast-changing environment > > - Student as co-learners have much to offer > - Must address the question: what about teachers without the belief and/or adaptability to be constructive partners in the world of digital learning? > - Also must acknowledge the importance of leadership by example > > - Connected, purposeful learning is what school should be about > > - focus on addressing the harmful, be honest on double-standards > > - Days of school-controlled, standardized technologies is increasingly economically and educationally untenable as home and personal technologies take over. > > - rate of technological change demands formal teacher learning approaches, teacher communities and connected learning > - Moore's Law for educators points to 50% of what you know in the digital world being outdated in two years or so > > - Students can through their eportfolios connect, communicate & create as they develop as responsible, independent, learners. > > - Early Learning is about socialisation with tech 'experiences' > - Middle School should be about developing independence, connections and responsibility > - Senior should be about making independent choices > > - VLEs (such as Moodle) with a for formative assessment can aid this > > - to facilitate at-hand general support (including online) and specialist learning spaces > > • what expectations are we setting ourselves? > • what learning is valued and in what ways? > • where is our leadership by example?
 * 1) **If of learning value all should be able to benefit**
 * 1) **Learning in the 21stC should be about providing learning opportunities, feedback, pathways**
 * 1) **Need for a Digital Curriculum**[[image:digworld.jpg width="297" height="193" align="right"]]
 * 1) **Communities of learners - teachers & students - working together can do more than segmented individuals**
 * 1) **Digital Expertise should be valued in what you embed and support others to achieve**
 * 1) **Digital Citizenship is about example and relationship building, not 'holier than thou' transmissions**
 * 1) **Student ownership of their technology and choices should include respect for diversity and personal responsibility**
 * 1) **Teacher learning requires structure to support and value teachers as learners (such as teachIT)**
 * 1) **Construction is as important as test responses**
 * 1) **There is no one K-12 single homogenized school approach**
 * 1) **Technology can aid communication to involve parents, teachers and students as learning collaborators**
 * 1) **Effective digital teaching and learning requires Digital Learning Spaces & Online communities**
 * 1) Questions for educators to ask themselves: