My Design Plan Prototype – Unit 2 Activity 3

To make sure I am ticking  off all the boxes, I am just going to leave the format of the activity here. to guide my discussion.

• Description: The school I work with is implementing a BYOD scheme for grade 10 and 11 next year. My didgital resource will help teachers manage this change by providing them with both digital resource training and pedagogical training.
• Learning Goals: I would like the users to achieve a consistent and common minimum comfort level with both digital resource usability and digital learning pedagogy to promote effective digital learning in the classroom.
• Intended Audience: The primary audience will be secondary school teachers at my school, but secondary beneficiatries will be the students who are partaking in the BYOD program, the design will help to ensure the smotthness of transition for them as well.
• Rationale: I have alredy identified that my users need more support with this transition than initially anticipated. The users have little to no background in effective digital pedagogy, and very limited technological experience period. I plan to use Google Classroom as  hub for a variety of digital tools that will help familiarise the users with the medium that the school is asking us to use (GSuite for Education) and will also provide the ability to link other tools and tutorials to this centralised resource location.
• Tools: I will be using Google Classroom as my centralising hub, but within this will be a variety of links to other resources, including video tutorials and links to to other digital learning tools.
• Google Classroom was chosen because it in itself will be used by the student users to manage their learning , so by using it as the central hub of my digital tool, it forces the teacher users to also be familiar with it. While Google Classroom is limited in that it is not a complete LMS, it does offer a variety of flexibility within the context of the school, which has “gone Google” and is pusing  teachers ans Students to be familiar withthe platform. provide a summary of the tools that you will use to develop your digital learning resource and clearly justify why you would like to use them.
• Assessment Plan: Some of the activities will able to be assessed by completion of the assignments themselves, for example: an assignment that requires students to demonstrate knowledge of pedagogical awareness, would ask them to design an activity using the digital tools they have been shown how to use. I have considered having the users also create and deliver a lesson to be taught to the other users, this would give them the opportunity to practice what they have learned, and it would also give the other users an opportunity sit on the side of the student learners, which should help them empathise with their end users. Ultimate satisfactory completion of the skills will be evaluated by me.
• Learning Theories & Instructional Design Principles Used: Digital learning in the k-12 sector requires knowledge of constructivist learning theory. This is the theory which this learning tool will hope to root its instruction in. By having users both create resources, and use resources created by other users, empathy will be kept front and center throughout the process, hopefully leading to a better overall user experience.
• Instructions for Use: The adult users will be required to work through a series of “assignments” that will be loaded on the Google Classroom site. These activities will include a variety of tutorials to support further learning, and learly and concisely outline instructions for how learners will use your digital learning resource.
• Plan for Use: The Google Classroom site will be public to all who have a Google account, and the appropriate access code, whoch will be provided by me.