Key classroom principles: across and within subjects and key stages - Teaching with Technologies: The Essential Guide - page 143

Table 7.6 Types of learning platform uses as reported by schools with examples of activities

(younie and leask 2009)

Types of learning
platform use School examples of activities and functionality

Administration usage/access statistics

Pupil records (tracking, monitoring, reporting pupil progress and attainment)
whole-school data management
Timetabling
some problems with interoperability of sIms (school information
management systems) and mIs (management information systems)-
these do not always pick up pupil assessment data from the learning
platform or publish to the learning platform

Communication and
information giving

Enhancing school identity and links to the wider community
connections between family of schools (inter-school communication)
whole-school online notice board; department areas; forums (intra-
school communication)
home-school links (parental communication)
Announcements /news and updates
Public display boards with links to information and documents such as
uniform lists, order forms, clubs and parental news
Blogging
Calendar: publishing to parents and pupils key dates of trips, school
plays, parents evenings, sporting fixtures
Podcasting: linked with pupil assessment tasks. audio files used with less
able readers; mFl learning activities in native language. music and songs
(revision rapping of core knowledge) posted on youTube

Information
repository

Storage of curriculum materials/online learning resources; links to
websites for departments/subject areas

Collaborative
working

Teachers: communal construction of knowledge. For example: designing
resources for sharing; through evaluation of resources; facilitating
discursive activity; sharing of lesson plans
Pupils: Video conferencing; use of online collaborative games
Wikis: for collaborative group work
Virtual classroom : extending home/school links
Forums: discussion/chat rooms

Learning and
assessment

ePortfolios: uploading and showcasing of pupils' work
Pupils' folders and teachers' folders are available to access externally from
home
Self-assessment/peer assessment: formative self-assessment: using
quizzes, multiple choice tests, revision exercises
Formative assessment and feedback: pupils upload files, which are
peer-reviewed using a forum for example: reviews of a book or website;
group presentations; electronic teacher feedback on assessments
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