Justin Borland - Digital Pedagogy

 Presenting Learning: Being able to present learning is a crucial capability for all educators of the 21 st century. Teachers need to be creative when designing their pedagogy. Being creative can make the learning more fun, as fun learning builds high engagement and creates a positive learning environment for your students. This week we have explored ways to present learning. PowerPoint is regarded as a presentation tool that supports oral presentations. However, it is so much more. It is a platform that supports the embedding of text, linking and interactivity, audio, video and images. Therefore, it is really a very easy to use multimedia authoring tool and great for making creative presentations for student learning. I looked to explore options that I have not used before and I now have been using Powtoon, Powtoon is a free, web-based eTool that creates animated presentations videos for personal, educational, or business/professional use. PowToon is simple and great for boot...

  This week, I have been studying digital media and its power to enhance teaching pedagogy. Digital media comes in various formats such as image, audio and video (Marryville, 2021) . Each type of media has a diverse characteristic that when implemented can enhance learning and cater for the more diverse learners in your classrooms (Relojo-Howell, 2020) . Students from this generation have been using digital technologies and digital media platforms since an early age resulting in tech savvy individuals (Molla, 2019) . Because of this, it is important to use their strengths in technology to your advantage as a teacher and implement digital learning into your classrooms. Here are some simple ways I can use digital media as a HPE teacher: Images for learning: By using imagery, students can get a visual representation of the skill before being bombarded with the many written steps required to perform the specific skill with correct technique. I would go that next step forward by i...