Creating a Volcano eBook
Video Overview
A school teacher describes how he creates eBooks for teaching SESE topics. Other apps mentioned include ‘Quiver’, which animates pupils’ work and ‘Explain Everything’ to demonstrate their learning. eBooks can also be shared with the wider teaching community through iTunes.
Description
A class teacher describes how he created an eBook for teaching a lesson on volcanoes in SESE. The teacher created text-book can be shared digitally on iTunes fother other schools and pupils to access.Other apps mentioned include Quiver, which animates pupils’ work and Explain Everything to demonstrate their learning. Another app mentioned for the creation of the physical elements of the volcanoe project is Foldify.
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Digital Learning Framework
This video supports the following statements of the Digital Learning Framework (DLF):
Teaching & Learning (1. Learner Outcomes)
- 1.1 Pupils use appropriate digital technologies to foster active, creative and critical engagement in attaining challenging learning outcomes.
- 1.3 Pupils use digital technologies in highly effective ways to develop their knowledge, skills and understanding in accordance with the content objectives, learning outcomes, skills and concepts of the Primary School Curriculum.
Teaching & Learning (3. Teachers’ Individual Practice)
- 3.1 The teacher has the requisite subject knowledge, pedagogical knowledge and classroom management skills.
Teachers use a range of digital technologies to design learning and assessment activities for their pupils.
Teachers design or adapt learning experiences that incorporate digital technologies and make learning activities relevant and meaningful to support pupils’ learning. When teachers use digital learning activities, they evaluate their effectiveness, and revise their teaching strategies accordingly.
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