Utilising your School's Digital Platform
Click on the image of your school's platform below to find out more about its features and potential in supporting blended learning.
Click on the image of your school's platform below to find out more about its features and potential in supporting blended learning.
The infant teachers in a rural primary school are using Seesaw to reinforce new concepts and skills that have been taught in the classroom. When they teach a new sound, they create a short video within Seesaw to highlight the new sound and show how the letter is formed. Children can listen to the video as often as they need and parents can see how the letter is being taught. Pupils then complete follow on activities including sound hunts and letter formation activities to reinforce this new learning. Some of these activities are set to be completed within Seesaw and some are in-class activities. Activities can also be easily differentiated, and children may be offered a number of ways to present what they have learned.
A medium sized primary school has been using Google Classroom as their VLE to create and assign learning activities for their pupils The staff and learners are comfortable using Google Classroom to date, having received whole school CPD. The teacher has prepared a poem with closed captions and actions for the class to learn over two weeks. The recording of the poem will help parents with English as an additional language to support their children. At the beginning of the first week, the teacher shares the poem with the class via Google Classroom, with a choice of accompanying activities to be completed at home. Activities are differentiated according to the learners' needs. In class, the pupils dramatise a reading of the poem in groups and engage in peer-assessment.
Staff competency with technology. You will find a range of tutorials to help staff up skill on the PDST Distance Learning Page. As well as this, TeacherCPD.ie run free term time courses on online learning.
Parental consent is necessary when setting up accounts for learners under the age of 16.
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Expectations on learner-teacher interactions should be clearly understood. It is best to be consistent with this. This should be documented in your AUP Policy. Information can be found on the Webwise website and should be updated to reflect the school's current blended learning approach.