1. Enhancing the learners’ experience
using technology
Steve Saffhill
Steve.saffhill@rsc-em.ac.uk
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2. Summary
• Learners, technology, Ofsted and
the Government
• The tools we use
• The tools we may consider
Un-summary
• We will not do step-by-step instructions
on how to do things

3. Inspections and reviews
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4. Ofsted: is technology
a limiting factor?

5. CIF Inspectors’ Handbook
 Learning outside classroom through
technology
WHY?
 Effective use of resources including
technology
 Effective use of technology in
assessment

6. Skilled workforce:
the future of British industry
 Government objectives
– Creative
– Social mobility
– “Wants industry to work together and with learning
organisations to improve productivity and efficiency”
– “Many of our students’ future jobs will involve some level
of crowdsourcing or collaboration”
Moving Learning Online steve.saffhill@rsc-em.ac.uk

7. Learners with great skills and abilities
Moving Learning Online steve.saffhill@rsc-em.ac.uk

8. The greatest learning activity

9. What made these activities great?
Best 3
Best 7
Adjectives
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10. Learning with EASE
•Learners understand •Ensure learning
what is expected of them resources are
•Motivate available to them
•Find out prior knowledge •Resources are
stimulative
Engage Activate
Embed Share
•Demonstrate new
•Complete knowledge and skills
assessment •Take risks
•Reflect on
performance
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11. ENGAGE: Quiz Show
Question and Answer
Samples and Techniques
Microsoft Office http://office.microsoft.com/en-
us/templates/results.aspx?qu=quiz#ai:TC010176929
bit.ly/ms-quizshow

12. Declan Donnelly’s family is Irish

13. How many singles did PJ and
Duncan aka Ant and Dec have?
Rip It Up; Tonight I'm Free; Why Me? (Is It
Justified); Let's Get Ready To
Rhumble; If I Give You My Number;
Eternal Love; Our Radio Rocks; Stuck
On U; U Krazy Katz; Perfect; Stepping
Stone; Better Watch Out; When I Fall In
Love; Shout; Falling; We're On The Ball

14. What part of Newcastle was Byker
Grove based on?
Jarrow
Wallsend
Byker
Grove
Sunderland

15. Match the person to the film they
appeared in as themselves:
Ant & Dec The Wedding Singer
John Malkovich The Last Action Hero
Arnold Schwarzenegger Love Actually
Tom Jones Being John Malkovic
Billy Idol Mars Attacks

16. Guard Rail (Approx 1.0 m high)
Brick Guard
Intermediate guard rail (Max gap of 470 mm)
END OF
Toe Board (Min 150 mm high)
SCAFFOLD
Scaffolding Planks
(Deck area min of 600 mm wide)
Transom
Facade Brace
Large
Through Tie Ledger Brace Eye Bolt
Reveal Tie
Couplers at joints
Ledger
Standard
Independent Eye Bolt
and Strap
Tied
Base Plates
Scaffold Sole Plates

17. Text the corresponding code to the
following phone number
07624806527
Code Comment
42148 I feel very comfortable using
technology in the classroom
42363 I’d like to use technology in the
classroom, but I don’t feel confident
42448 I’d like to use technology, but it always
goes wrong for me
42506 I get along fine without using
technology

19. Changes in mobile technology
 99% of 15-24 YO have a mobile phone
 Rural broadband penetration is 84% (OFCOM,
Jan 2012)
 Smartphone ownership doubles from 2011-2012
 Half of internet access was via mobile (Oct 2011)
 Quarter of mobile users access news content
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20. What’s in your learners’ pocket?
 Mobile device usage
 Benefit or distraction?
 Follow them and lead them
https://mobilelearninginfokit.pbworks.com

21. Types of learning activities
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22. Edgar Dale’s Cone of Experience
Read
Hear
View images
Watch videos
Attend exhibits/sites
Watch a demonstration
Participate in hands-on workshops
Design collaborative lessons
Simulate, model or experience a lesson
Design/perform a real lesson

23. Flipped classroom model – What is it?
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24. Edgar Dale’s Cone of Experience
Flipped
Read
Hear
View images
Watch videos
Attend exhibits/sites
Watch a demonstration
Participate in hands-on workshops
Design collaborative lessons
Simulate, model or experience a lesson
Design/perform a real lesson

25. Learning with EASE
•Learners understand •Ensure learning
what is expected of them resources are
•Motivate available to them
•Find out prior knowledge •Resources are
stimulative
Engage Activate
Embed Share
•Demonstrate new
•Complete knowledge and skills
assessment •Take risks
•Reflect on
performance
November 19, 2012 | slide 25

26. Edgar Dale’s Cone of Experience
Flipped
Read
Hear
View images
Watch videos
Attend exhibits/sites
Watch a demonstration
Participate in hands-on workshops
Design collaborative lessons
Simulate, model or experience a lesson
Design/perform a real lesson

27. What are some benefits
of this method?
 Flexible access
 Personalised learning
 Stronger student/teacher relationships
 Share resources with other colleagues
 Class time for higher order thinking
• Learning outside classroom through technology
• Effective use of resources including technology
• Effective use of technology in assessment
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28. Resources for Moodle
 Read
– Add files to Moodle
– Slideshare
 Hear
– Podcasts
 Watch
– Combining the two
– Mashing it with video footage
The best way to impart new knowledge and skills is
to make it multisensory
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