eCurriculum Diagram

My mum is a Primary School teacher and she is not far from retirement.  She is resisting the digital revolution with the comment "How could I teach my students anything about technology?".  I agreed with her that it's a challenge to keep up with the technology and it takes hard work and time to design lessons/units that will be engaging for digital natives.  She acknowledged that it was her responsibility to put in the effort and make it happen.

She asked me "What do you expect year 5s to know, they already do word processing and maths practice on the computer?"  I told her it wasn't just about the skills they developed computer wise, it was more about how they used ICTs to engage with the curriculum.  She said "Ok, great... what does that look like?"


So I showed her this: [from my DPL]:

I wanted the diagram to show a progression from the Curriculum to e-Curriculum and to show what the kids get out of it.  She got it. [now she wants me to plan her units]

How do I do that?

Well my coach got back to me really quickly (awesome!) and he gave me some great feedback on my first item for my DPL.  He suggesed I write more about what the kids are actually doing/have done and this makes complete sense - I will fix this up.  He also asked that I write more on PV4 which is the one about ethical and safe use.  He said:

"I would also expect you to detail - PV4 further.  There is more to this than simply referencing e.g. netiquette, copyright and other ethical issues for an working online environment.  Managing a class of year 8s with laptop is a huge challenge - there are many examples of ethical behaviour to include."

Very true.  Now I have to think of how I actually manage the class.  When you've built up a classroom environment so slowly, it's hard to think back and say how you did it or how you maintain it.  I'm going to have to think about this for a couple of days and 'watch' my classroom carefully...