Digital Framework Strategy
1. Introduction
This document records the outcomes of our current digital learning plan, including targets and the actions we will implement to meet the targets.
1.1 School Details:
- At Scoil Phádraig Naofa Kilcurry, our ethos statement expresses the desire that each child should learn and achieve to the best of his / her ability. We believe that ICT has a significant role to play in ensuring that each child does so. Our commitment is based on our vision of ICT as a vital tool of learning and teaching.
1.2 School Vision:
- Our vision is to provide pupils with the opportunity to enhance their learning through the use of ICT. To this end, we commit to emphasising the role of ICT as an important tool in both teaching and learning through a range of strategies and methods.
1.3 Brief account of the use of digital technologies in the school to date:
- Every classroom is equipped with an interactive whiteboard
- Each teacher has a laptop for planning, teaching and learning
- We have a chromebook station centrally located.
- The school WiFi network has recently been extended and upgraded
- Our school website is regularly updated and we have launched a school Facebook page as well as a Twitter account
2. The focus of this Digital Learning Plan
We undertook a digital learning evaluation in our school.
We evaluated our progress using the following sources of evidence:
- Questionnaires for staff regarding ICT resources and facilities, hardware and software, online resources, teaching and planning tools and goals for inclusion in our digital plan.
- Informal discussion and survey with the pupils in a senior class with regard to their own use of ICT, their ideas and wishes for further ICT development in school
- A focus group of children from all year groups
- Staff discussion on the above items and general ICT use in school
- CyberSafe Survey completed
2.1 The dimensions and domains from the Digital Learning Framework being selected
- Learner outcomes
- Learner experiences
- Teachers’ individual practice
- Teachers’ collective/collaborative practice
2.2 The standards and statements from the Digital Learning Framework being selected
Standard | Statement(s) |
Pupils enjoy their learning, are motivated to learn and expect to achieve as learners | Pupils use appropriate digital technologies to foster active engagement in attaining appropriate learning outcomes. |
Pupils engage purposefully in meaningful learning activities | Pupils use digital technologies for sourcing, exchanging of information to develop understanding and support basic knowledge creation. |
The teacher selects and uses teaching approaches appropriate to the learning objective and to pupils’ learning needs | Teachers are aware of, and purposefully use, a range of digital technologies appropriate to the learning objectives and learning needs of their pupils when designing learning activities. Teachers use appropriate digital technologies and teaching strategies to enable the development of pupils’ literacy and numeracy skills across the curriculum. |
Teachers contribute to building whole- staff capacity by sharing their expertise | Teachers collaborate in determining how digital technologies can be used effectively for teaching, learning and assessment. |
2.3. These are a summary of our strengths with regards digital learning
- We have recently invested in a set of seventeen Chromebooks which we hope to incorporate into our teaching and learning opportunities, beginning with the senior classes.
- We have recently invested in a new Irish language programme which is fully digitally compatible and is being well received amongst pupils and teachers.
- We have grown our online presence with our school website, Facebook and Twitter accounts.
2.5 This is what we are going to focus on to improve our digital learning practice further
- Continue to invest in more Chromebooks and tablets, so that eventually we could be a 1-to-1 school.
- Invest in hardware such as earphones, visualisers, updated teacher laptops
- Increase our use of online teaching and learning resources, by sharing our knowledge and pooling resources.
- Create whole-school accounts for educational sites and resources
- Encourage staff to participate in continuing professional development in the area of ICT and teaching and learning using digital technology.
3. Our Digital Learning plan
On the next page we have recorded:
- The targets for improvement we have set
- The actions we will implement to achieve these
- Who is responsible for implementing, monitoring and reviewing our improvement plan
- How we will measure progress and check outcomes (criteria for success)
As we implement our improvement plan we will record:
- The progress made, and adjustments made, and when
- Achievement of targets (original and modified), and when
Digital Learning Action Plan
DOMAIN: Learner outcomes | |||
STANDARD(S): Pupils enjoy their learning, are motivated to learn and expect to achieve as learners | |||
STATEMENT(S): Pupils use appropriate digital technologies to foster active engagement in attaining appropriate learning outcomes. | |||
TARGETS:
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ACTIONS (What needs to be done?) | PERSONS / GROUPS RESPONSIBLE (Who is to do it?) | CRITERIA FOR SUCCESS (What are the desired outcomes?) | RESOURCES (What resources are needed?) |
Invest in Chromebooks and/or tablets, encourage teachers and pupils to become familiar with them and their uses and limitations. Teachers incorporate the use of digital technologies as far as possible, perhaps as a station or in group work. Teachers could focus on a subject/project at a time. | ICT Coordinator Principal Whole staff | Access to chromebooks/tablets Teachers will be familiar with the use of Chromebooks and tablets and will implement their use in class this school year Pupils will begin to use the Chromebooks and computers during lessons Staff will begin to pool resources and share tips etc | Chromebook Tablets Email link to examples of use in class Charging trolley/station |
DOMAIN: Learner experiences | |||
STANDARD(S): Pupils engage purposefully in meaningful learning activities | |||
STATEMENT(S): Pupils use digital technologies for sourcing, exchanging of information to develop understanding and support basic knowledge creation | |||
TARGETS: Pupils use a range of digital technologies, for example Chromebooks and computers, to enhance their learning and practise knowledge and skills. | |||
ACTIONS (What needs to be done?) | PERSONS / GROUPS RESPONSIBLE (Who is to do it?) | CRITERIA FOR SUCCESS (What are the desired outcomes?) | RESOURCES (What resources are needed?) |
Create school G Suite account Create bank of apps and resources for children to use on chromebooks and class computers Incorporate the use of digital technologies into lessons, perhaps choosing one subject area to begin with. Create a timetable for use of chromebooks throughout the school Create a bank of ideas for integration of ICT in lessons | Whole staff | Each class will have had the opportunity to use digital technology in their learning. Teachers will be more confident and experienced in the use of digital technologies Pupils will be completing items of class work using digital technologies instead of paper and pen | Chromebooks/Tablets Charging trolley Online bank of apps and resources Integrated lesson plans Teacher laptops |
DOMAIN: Learner experiences | |||
STANDARD(S): Pupils engage purposefully in meaningful learning activities | |||
STATEMENT(S): Pupils use digital technologies for sourcing, exchanging of information to develop understanding and support basic knowledge creation | |||
TARGETS: Pupils use a range of digital technologies, for example Chromebooks and computers, to enhance their learning and practise knowledge and skills. | |||
ACTIONS (What needs to be done?) | PERSONS / GROUPS RESPONSIBLE (Who is to do it?) | CRITERIA FOR SUCCESS (What are the desired outcomes?) | RESOURCES (What resources are needed?) |
Create school G Suite account Create bank of apps and resources for children to use on chromebooks and class computers Incorporate the use of digital technologies into lessons, perhaps choosing one subject area to begin with. Create a timetable for use of chromebooks throughout the school Create a bank of ideas for integration of ICT in lessons | Whole staff | Each class will have had the opportunity to use digital technology in their learning. Teachers will be more confident and experienced in the use of digital technologies Pupils will be completing items of class work using digital technologies instead of paper and pen | Chromebooks/Tablets Charging trolley Online bank of apps and resources Integrated lesson plans Teacher laptops |
DOMAIN: Teachers’ collective/collaborative practice | |||
STANDARD(S): Teachers contribute to building whole-staff capacity by sharing their expertise. | |||
STATEMENT(S): Teachers collaborate in determining how digital technologies can be used effectively for teaching, learning and assessment. | |||
TARGETS: Teachers will record, share and link to useful and effective resources in order to create a pool of digital resources that can be shared and accessed throughout the school. | |||
ACTIONS (What needs to be done?) | PERSONS / GROUPS RESPONSIBLE (Who is to do it?) | CRITERIA FOR SUCCESS (What are the desired outcomes?) | RESOURCES (What resources are needed?) |
Create a space where teachers may share their online resources, links, apps, strategies and tools (perhaps this could be through the G Suite programme) | Whole staff | The school staff will have access to a bank of resources for use with digital technologies New resources will be shared as they are discovered Knowledge and expertise will be shared and workloads therefore reduced | Internet access Teacher laptops Chromebooks Agreed method for sharing resources – email/staff Symbaloo account? |