digital learning resources @ digilearn

1Digital Learning Resources @ digiLearn

Digital Learning Resources @ digiLearn


Research shows that digital learning resources from The

Le@rning Federation (TLF) engages and motivates

students and has a positive impact on student

achievement.

Victorian teachers can now access this content at digiLearn

www.education.vic.gov.au/digilearn


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Some sample content: Wishball L873


Digital resources Digital resources:

• are presented in a range of media formats (moving image

clips, documents, line drawings, paintings or maps,

photographs or audio files of songs or broadcasts), and

sometimes as sets of items.

• include descriptions, interpretations of their educational value

and acknowledgements of their sources for use by teachers.

• are licensed from a range of cultural institutions, including the

National Film and Sound Archive, National Library of Australia

and CSIRO.


Digital resources


Digital resources

Use as a stimulus for science-fiction writing or to examine

features of insects.

Compare this campaign speech, delivered by John

Curtin in the 1930s, to those of today.

Why did Paddy have to have a licence? Were the rules in the WA goldfields the same

as for those in other colonies?

Green-headed ant

R4278

Campaign speech by John

Curtin, 1937 R4225

Paddy Hannan’s

Miner’s Right, 1893

R4926


Digital resourcesWomen were part of the war

effort, too! Here, they are shown wearing the newly issued summer uniform of the Australian Women’s

Land Army: a brown hat and tie, a khaki-coloured cotton summer dress, thick brown stockings, brown lace-up

shoes and a brown leather satchel.

Young women

in a Sydney street in

1943R2025

This one-piece woollen swimsuit was made around 1938 by the Roslyn Woollen

Mills in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Woollen swimsuit

R1776


Learning objects

Learning objects are multimedia activities focused on specific

learning outcomes.

They include: • interactive experiences • scaffolding and feedback • activities for individuals, pairs or whole classes • interactive whiteboard opportunities.


Multiple uses

Mathematics

English

Humanities

Science

Explore multiplication strategies and make sense of

the long multiplication algorithm.

Learn how meaning is constructed in film, or use to

teach visual literacy in English and/or

media studies.Explore the life stories of people living in Ballarat

between 1857 and 2000. Use as part of a study of

immigration or of life on the goldfields.

Use to explain pH or as a predict, observe, explain (POE)

task.

The multiplier: generate hard multiplications

Lights, camera,

action: camera

This house: settling in Ballarat

pH: aquarium


Hard-to-conduct activities

Some activities can be difficult to teach in a classroom.

For example:• 3D visualisation in maths: where do you get the

solids?• How birds or dogs see: what is the same as or

different to humans?• How to design cyber poems with text effects and

sounds.


Mathematics

English

Humanities

Science

Match a photo of a group of geometric solids to another

photo that has been taken from a different viewpoint.

The sea rescue context in this object makes the creation and testing of a chart a challenging

and engaging activity.

Collect items from flight logs to make a multimedia newsreel

about Australia’s early aviators.

Discover how animals see things differently to each other

because of their eye structures.

Photo hunt

Sea rescue: plotting

the courseHeroes of the

air

Eyeball challenge: slingshot puzzle


Mathematics

English

Humanities

Science

Explore patterns by effortlessly running large-scale data

experiments.

Construct poetry with movement, sound colour and

words.

Explore the history of the Snowy Mountains Scheme

through the people who worked on the project.

Investigate the internal structure of the Earth and

identify how plate movements affect its surface.

Random or not: explore runs of jubes

Poetry anthology 1

Beth Murray: cultural

diversity on the Snowy

Mountains Scheme

Tectonics investigator


A range of approaches

• Decision-making

• Experiential learning

• Games

• Investigation and inquiry

• Modelling

• Predict, observe, explain (POE)

• Problem-solving

• Research

• Simulation


A range of approaches

Mathematics

English

Humanities

Science

Use your knowledge of place value to get to a target number

in less than 20 tries.

Interview people at a public meeting and then investigate

opinions expressed in letters to the editor.

Investigate properties of shoes that make them well suited for

particular sports.

Wishball: thousandths

Letters to the editor:

interviews 1

Sports shoe: shoe 4 u

Take on the role of a commandant’s clerk at Port

Arthur and decide which work to assign to a range of

prisoners.

Samuel Cooper: putting

the rabble to work


It’s the way you use it that matters

All content from digiLearn can be used in a range of ways to

address students’ needs.

All classes have students with a range of abilities.

Some learning objects have different levels – choosing these

allows students to work at levels appropriate to their

understanding, while appearing to undertake the same task as

their classmates.


It’s the way you use it that matters…

Mathematics

English

Humanities

Science

Set the rule for a frog’s jump and explore the pattern

created.

Demonstrate how to assess the reliability of texts by using the

SAFE test (Source, Assertions, Facts and Emotions).

Use to discuss the influence of the British empire on Australian

life and/or the way sport inspires national pride in

Australians.

What is different atomically between liquids and other

types of matter?

Hopper challenge:

tenths

Riddle of the black panther:

the search

The first golden age of cricket

Types of matter: solids,

liquids and gases


Teaching resources to support digiLearn

http://epotential.education.vic.gov.au/showcase


Make a start

All of these sample ideas are available in digiLearn.

digiLearn has more than 6000 items are available free of charge to all teachers in Australia and New Zealand.

Learning in the 21st century includes digital content.

Have a go, share your ideas with your colleagues, discuss what works and what doesn’t.

For more details:www.education.vic.gov.au/digilearn

digital learning resources @ digilearn

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