Digi Digest #5

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Core Education top 10 Trends

Each year, CORE Education’s experienced staff of researchers, educators, and digital

technology experts pool their expertise and share their understandings to identify the trends and influences that are expected to make a growing impact upon education in New Zealand in the coming year. This is well worth a read and exciting to see how many areas we are actively working on at Bayfield.


App of the week
Newsela

Newsela is a data base of current events stories tailor-made for classroom use. Indexed by broad theme (e.g. War and Peace, Arts, Science, Health, Law, Money), stories are both student-friendly and can be accessed in different formats by reading level. Newspaper writers rewrite a story four times for a total of five levels per story. All articles have embedded quizzes that conform to the reading levels for checking comprehension.

An account is required to use Newsela, both for teachers and for students, but students sign up using a teacher or parent provided code rather than an email address. Teachers can create classes and assign reading-level specific articles to individual students, or download printable PDF copies of the article in any of its reading-level versions. There is an upgraded fee-based Pro Version which allows teachers or administrators to track reading progress and students to take constructed response writing assessments, but many of the features are free and there is no outside advertising.

 QR CODES

A great way for digital technologies to extend learning is through the use of QR Codes.

A QR Code is very similar to a barcode. QR stands for Quick Response.  The image consists of square dots in a unique configuration that provides information for the user.
QR Codes can contain text, links (to websites, videos, files), They can be used to display a student reflection about their work or to display an extension or next step in their learning. 

Seesaw is an easy way to produce QR codes of students work.

How do I get a QR code from a Seesaw post?

Stop Motion
The Mega Construx Stop Motion App has been downloaded onto all the ipads. It will allow students to make a short stop-motion movie, add text, audio and control the speed at which the clip is played back.

Stop Motion is a great tool to animate a song or retell a story. Both of these tasks would satisfy Progress Outcome 1 of DDDO (Designing and Develop Digital Outcomes).

Here is a link to an exemplar of DDDO :
  • Click on PO1 and have a look at exemplar 3 - Animating A Song


Techie Brekkie #5
You are all invited to our next brekkie this week!
When: Thursday 23rd August, 7.30am
Where: Staffroom 
Focus: 
  • Stop Motion
  • SeeSaw - QR Codes
  • Newsela
(Keyboard waffles not included)

That's all for now!
Please feel free to come to us/flick us an e-mail or come and see us at anytime if you have any questions at all about the new Digital Technologies curriculum or about anything in general to do with Digital Technology!


Comments

  1. kerri24 August 2018 at 15:30

    I used the the trends in my recent blog (credited you both of course) Linda was proof reading it for me and was so stimulated she started reading the Core site!

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