DigIQ – Professional learning modules for educators
A final note
High-quality practice that incorporates the digital should be designed to:
- Ensure, embed, extend and elongate high-quality interactions and its features
- Encourage and stimulate active and interactive co-use of digital technologies
- Use digital technologies to complement, supplement and extend upon learning intentions, experiences and play
- Generate novel discussions, ideas, questions, explorations or experiences that are uniquely encouraged or enabled by digital technologies
- Diversify how we understand ‘engagement’ and ‘interaction’ in digital contexts, to derive benefit not only from what is known about high-quality interactions in non-digital contexts, but to derive additional benefit from deploying our digital technologies in ways that provide new (e.g., digital literacy) or additional benefit (e.g., through sustained, extended or enriched interaction)
We encourage you to consider the possibilities. We’ve shared examples from our own investigations, we’d love to hear yours! Please connect with us to share your feedback and ideas.
Lisa Kervin (lkervin@uow.edu.au) and Steven Howard (stevenh@uow.edu.au)
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