Today focused on the devices our young people use in their classrooms and we experienced Learn Create Share using Chromebooks and iPads.
The use of devices from the student's view helped me understand some of the frustrations the students could be feeling when using their devices to complete tasks. A lack of visibility due to the small screen or different brightness would affect how much learning they experienced and it made me mindful when designing my learning tasks of avoiding the moving of small objects, filling in of small boxes, low quality or small images.
Utilising the device I don't normally use from the teacher's view, helped me gain new knowledge about shortcuts, and how I could make use of those myself.
Today's task was to develop an activity around Cybersmart using Explain Everything or Screencastify.
Having not used iPad's myself before for learning I decided to have a look at using Explain Everything. I quickly realised there is huge scope for designing activities using this format. I am looking forward to having a closer look at what can be created here!
Kia ora Irene,
ReplyDeleteI love that every-time I come to your blog you've changed the appearance slightly :) You may want to change your labels to being arrange in a cloud, as you have so many, that gadget becomes really long down the side of your blog. Your Cybersmart lesson looks great! Really engaging for students (and so relevant right now!)Ka pai!
Vicki
Thank you, I am learning so much from other people! I have changed to cloud for the labels, that does look much better thank you!
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