e-Learning and Digital Fluency
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Digital Fluency: understanding how to use digital technologies, deciding when to use specific digital technologies to achieve a desired outcome, and being able to explain why the technologies selected will provide their desired outcome.
Digital Technologies: this is about learning to be a creator in the digital world, not just learning to use systems. Digital Technologies is not about learning with technology (e-learning), it's learning about technology.
Both are important, but if we teach students only to use digital devices, they will be consumers limited to making do with whatever the makers of digital technologies produce, and as a country we will be buying in technology rather than creating it and selling it to others.
Tim Bell (University of Canterbury)
The Standards are applicable for every teacher who holds a Practising Certificate, regardless of role or teaching context. The Standards were implemented on 1 January 2018. All teachers, schools, kura, and centres must use the new Standards for appraisal.
The six teacher standards have been "unpacked" using e-learning examples to illustrate each standard.
The Tātaiako competencies have been linked to the relevant standards.
Teachers can:
identify how their current practice in e-learning supports the standards and record this in official appraisal documents
use the e-learning examples to develop their own practice and inform teacher inquires.
School leaders can support teachers to develop goals related to the standards, which incorporate e-learning.