TEL Communities
Helen Caldwell and Anna Cox | View as single page | Feedback/Impact
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TEL Communities Definitions: Theoretical background relevant to technology facilitated social learning Research evidence: Systematic literature reviews on the theme of technology facilitated social learning |
Example 2: Technology supporting social learning in a school
There were three tasks: Liz describes her project: The Year 6 students and their teachers worked simultaneously on each site. We also engaged with Year 7 teams who responded to quiz questions live through email, and facetime. We also teamed up with staff from Senior school who came to each Junior site for the morning. There was a tremendous buzz as we used team work and digital skills to answer questions and create knowledge. The other benefit was to create a link between people to support our transition strategy and initiatives that are already in place. The opportunities that Canvas presents for Year 6 to work next year by linking with Senior school and by linking across BSN were explored next. We saw many different possibilities. We can also enabled students to continue sharing their ideas so that they are more sure what to expect on their new school site. The main impact was enlightenment and togetherness. Our senior colleagues were impressed at the capacity of the Year 6 students to take on the new skills in such a fast and furious way. The Y6 students were engaged and excited to do something so collaborative and the staff in general had the opportunity to see something on a large scale that could be replicated in the future. We also acknowledged that we can do more with it in future. We saw we couldn't have done this another way which is also the technology benefit. In the words of a Year 6 pupil 'Canvas Day was amazing!' ‘ Read more here: https://voices.britishschool.nl/teachingandlearning/2017/06/16/follow-the-panda/ Further browsing - The Bridgecraft Project: https://ukedchat.com/2014/07/08/feature-how-one-school-turned-minecraft-into-steam
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Elizabeth Jones from The British School in The Netherlands shared an example from her recent practice on the Technology Outdoors MOOC. She ran a ’Follow the Panda’ challenge day with the aim of building shared understanding of the new Canvas VLE for 200 year 6 students and 20 staff across 4 school sites. This took the form of a competition with three digital tasks where the year 6 pupils get year 7 pupils to find answers to a quiz.