digital learning resources @ digilearn
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Digital Learning Resources @ digiLearn. A guide for Victorian teachers. Research shows that digital learning resources from The Le@rning Federation (TLF) engages and motivates students and has a positive impact on student achievement. Victorian teachers can now access this content at digiLearn - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Digital Learning Resources @ digiLearn
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Research shows that digital learning resources from The
Le@rning Federation (TLF) engages and motivates
students and has a positive impact on student
achievement.
Victorian teachers can now access this content at digiLearn
www.education.vic.gov.au/digilearn
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Some sample content : Faces of Australia - R6420
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Some sample content: Wishball L873
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Digital resources Digital resources:
• are presented in a range of media formats (moving image
clips, documents, line drawings, paintings or maps,
photographs or audio files of songs or broadcasts), and
sometimes as sets of items.
• include descriptions, interpretations of their educational value
and acknowledgements of their sources for use by teachers.
• are licensed from a range of cultural institutions, including the
National Film and Sound Archive, National Library of Australia
and CSIRO.
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Digital resources
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Digital resources
Use as a stimulus for science-fiction writing or to examine
features of insects.
Compare this campaign speech, delivered by John
Curtin in the 1930s, to those of today.
Why did Paddy have to have a licence? Were the rules in the WA goldfields the same
as for those in other colonies?
Green-headed ant
R4278
Campaign speech by John
Curtin, 1937 R4225
Paddy Hannan’s
Miner’s Right, 1893
R4926
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Digital resourcesWomen were part of the war
effort, too! Here, they are shown wearing the newly issued summer uniform of the Australian Women’s
Land Army: a brown hat and tie, a khaki-coloured cotton summer dress, thick brown stockings, brown lace-up
shoes and a brown leather satchel.
Young women
in a Sydney street in
1943R2025
This one-piece woollen swimsuit was made around 1938 by the Roslyn Woollen
Mills in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Woollen swimsuit
R1776
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Learning objects
Learning objects are multimedia activities focused on specific
learning outcomes.
They include: • interactive experiences • scaffolding and feedback • activities for individuals, pairs or whole classes • interactive whiteboard opportunities.
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Multiple uses
Mathematics
English
Humanities
Science
Explore multiplication strategies and make sense of
the long multiplication algorithm.
Learn how meaning is constructed in film, or use to
teach visual literacy in English and/or
media studies.Explore the life stories of people living in Ballarat
between 1857 and 2000. Use as part of a study of
immigration or of life on the goldfields.
Use to explain pH or as a predict, observe, explain (POE)
task.
The multiplier: generate hard multiplications
Lights, camera,
action: camera
This house: settling in Ballarat
pH: aquarium
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Hard-to-conduct activities
Some activities can be difficult to teach in a classroom.
For example:• 3D visualisation in maths: where do you get the
solids?• How birds or dogs see: what is the same as or
different to humans?• How to design cyber poems with text effects and
sounds.
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Mathematics
English
Humanities
Science
Match a photo of a group of geometric solids to another
photo that has been taken from a different viewpoint.
The sea rescue context in this object makes the creation and testing of a chart a challenging
and engaging activity.
Collect items from flight logs to make a multimedia newsreel
about Australia’s early aviators.
Discover how animals see things differently to each other
because of their eye structures.
Photo hunt
Sea rescue: plotting
the courseHeroes of the
air
Eyeball challenge: slingshot puzzle
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Mathematics
English
Humanities
Science
Explore patterns by effortlessly running large-scale data
experiments.
Construct poetry with movement, sound colour and
words.
Explore the history of the Snowy Mountains Scheme
through the people who worked on the project.
Investigate the internal structure of the Earth and
identify how plate movements affect its surface.
Random or not: explore runs of jubes
Poetry anthology 1
Beth Murray: cultural
diversity on the Snowy
Mountains Scheme
Tectonics investigator
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A range of approaches
• Decision-making
• Experiential learning
• Games
• Investigation and inquiry
• Modelling
• Predict, observe, explain (POE)
• Problem-solving
• Research
• Simulation
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A range of approaches
Mathematics
English
Humanities
Science
Use your knowledge of place value to get to a target number
in less than 20 tries.
Interview people at a public meeting and then investigate
opinions expressed in letters to the editor.
Investigate properties of shoes that make them well suited for
particular sports.
Wishball: thousandths
Letters to the editor:
interviews 1
Sports shoe: shoe 4 u
Take on the role of a commandant’s clerk at Port
Arthur and decide which work to assign to a range of
prisoners.
Samuel Cooper: putting
the rabble to work
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It’s the way you use it that matters
All content from digiLearn can be used in a range of ways to
address students’ needs.
All classes have students with a range of abilities.
Some learning objects have different levels – choosing these
allows students to work at levels appropriate to their
understanding, while appearing to undertake the same task as
their classmates.
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It’s the way you use it that matters…
Mathematics
English
Humanities
Science
Set the rule for a frog’s jump and explore the pattern
created.
Demonstrate how to assess the reliability of texts by using the
SAFE test (Source, Assertions, Facts and Emotions).
Use to discuss the influence of the British empire on Australian
life and/or the way sport inspires national pride in
Australians.
What is different atomically between liquids and other
types of matter?
Hopper challenge:
tenths
Riddle of the black panther:
the search
The first golden age of cricket
Types of matter: solids,
liquids and gases
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Teaching resources to support digiLearn
http://epotential.education.vic.gov.au/showcase
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Make a start
All of these sample ideas are available in digiLearn.
digiLearn has more than 6000 items are available free of charge to all teachers in Australia and New Zealand.
Learning in the 21st century includes digital content.
Have a go, share your ideas with your colleagues, discuss what works and what doesn’t.
For more details:www.education.vic.gov.au/digilearn