Student Engagement

What is Engagement?

• Being self motivated
• emotional, intellectual and behavioural involvement
• Wanting to know more
• Sticking with difficult tasks

TfEL Connections

• 2.3: Negotiate Learning
• 4.3: Apply & assess learning in authentic context
• 4.4: Communicate learning in multiple modes

TfEL 2.3

• Negotiate learning
• Capitalise on student interests
• Using what they bring and what we can generate together are key to engagement and persistence

TfEL 4.3

• Apply and assess learning in authentic contexts
• Connect students with an authentic audience
• Use digital sources e.g blogs, photostories, videos
• Link to other schools, nationally and globally

TfEL 4.4

• Communicate Learning in Multiple Modes
• Encourage a culture of risk taking to explore new media/modes
• As an educator, being open to multiple modes of assessing, processing and presenting information (e.g. Blogs, Twitter)

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What Digital Tools

Digital Tools

• 2 common platforms:
• Web Based - work within your chosen browser or OS (Windows, Mac, Chrome)
• Mobile - apps (Apple, Android)

Windows 8 Apps

Chrome Apps

Apple & Android Apps

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Online Quiz and Polling

• Socrative
• Plickers

Putting It Out There

• Class and Teacher Blogs
• Social Media - Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest
• YouTube

Popular Blog Sites

• Wordpress
• KidBlog
• Blogger
• Edublogs

QR Codes

• 'Quick Response' codes
• Instant access to websites, text, maps, social media links