Digital Technologies in a Geography lesson
Video Overview
Interview with teacher about the integration of Minecraft into Graphics lessons. He discusses how he makes a link between 3D builds in Minecraft and 2D drawings on paper in his lessons. The students work as a team to complete the challenge and record their process using images and Keynote.
Description
Graphics teacher uses Minecraft Education to encourage understanding of 2D and 3D shapes. Pupils work in teams on iPads building in Minecraft Education. Teacher continues the lesson with a flipped learning approach. Pupils watch a premade PowerPoint and video on exam questions. Teacher models answers using visualiser and PowerPoint. The pupils then take photos of their drawings using their iPads and upload them to KeyNote.
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Video tutorials
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Digital Learning Framework
This video supports the following statements of the Digital Learning Framework (DLF):
Teaching & Learning (2. Learner Experiences)
- 2.1 Pupils engage purposefully in meaningful learning activities
Pupils use digital technologies for sourcing, exchanging of information to develop understanding and support basic knowledge creation.
Teaching & Learning (3. Teachers’ Individual Practice)
- 3.2 The teacher selects and uses planning, preparation and assessment practices that progress pupils’ learning.
- Teachers use appropriate digital technologies to design learning activities that facilitate personalised and differentiated learning.
- Teachers use appropriate digital technologies to design complex, real-world problems and structure them in a way that incorporates key subject matter concepts.
Visit DL Planning to explore what other areas of the DLF are supported in this video, and to help you to plan for digital learning in your class.
