Day 8
Up at Apararore school again.
Not to much to say today but the message is clear.
Dorothy used a word today that I don’t ever recall hearing until I started the DFI course 8 weeks ago.
Ubiquitous. In terms of the DFI course it means being able to facilitate learning:
Anytime,
Anywhere ,
Any pace,
Anyone.
When learning material is in digital formatt it definetly has its advantages,
This means learners can access material anytime of the day or night from anywhere there is internet.
They can do the learning at their own pace , leaving time to reasearch and plan what and when they are going to complete their work. This can also be done by young and older learners, school students and non school students can partake in online learning. The word rewindable has also been used alot, where learners can go back again and again as many times as necessary.
Their is a multitude of on line courses now so even people who work during the day can log in when they have the time. This was also made evident during the lockdown when schools were closed and Teachers and students could connect through google meets and Teachers could deliver the learning and students would have access to Hapara where they could keep there work, teachers could access it and mark and comment.
Using skills learnt on the Dfi course will help Teachers produce interesting material for learners, hopefully getting them interested in learning.and keeping them engaged in school and help them realsie that by using digital devises learning can be accessed realatively easily, well after they have left school.
We then moved onto using the devices namely i-pad and chromebooks. I didn;t realise there was so much you could do with these decvices and would like to do firther trainging as I mainly use a chroebook at home. Will have to google some training tutorials.