PCDC105
Empowering Learners through Digital Technology
This module will provide educators with a range of methods of tools to identify learners’ needs and use technology in a manner which enhances the learning experience. By the end of the module, the educator will be able to design opportunities for learners to reflect on their own learning, to speak and give evidence of their learning through the support of digital technologies.
By the end of this programme, participants should be able to:
a. Implement the use of digital technologies to address learners’ diverse learning needs, by allowing learners to advance at different levels and speeds, and to follow individual learning pathways and objectives;
b. Manage the use of digital technologies to foster learners’ active and creative engagement with a subject matter;
c. Implement digital technologies within pedagogic strategies that foster learners’ transversal skills, deep thinking and creative expression.
a. Consider and respond to learners’ (digital) expectations, abilities, uses and misconceptions, as well as contextual, physical or cognitive constraints to their use of digital technologies;
b. Reflect on the different learning pathways, levels and speeds when designing, selecting and implementing digital learning activities;
c. Appreciate the use of digital technologies that allow learners to actively engage with the subject matter at hand, such as through the use of manipulating virtual objects, and varying the problem setup to enquire about its structure, to mention a couple of examples.
a. Effectively design activities and resources to empower learners the need to create their own;
b. Use a variety of learning activities and resources to empower learners by creating opportunities to reflect on their own learning and bridge gaps;
c. Assess learning activities and resources, for all learners, including those with special needs;
d. Evaluate real-world contexts, involving learners in hands-on activities that increase the learners’ active involvement in engaging with the subject matter at hand.
This programme adopts continuous and summative methods of assessment including assignments, online tasks, reflective journals, projects and video presentations. For further details, kindly refer to the Teaching, Learning and Assessment Policy and Procedures.
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