Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Using Technology to Enhance Practical Work
National STEM Learning Centre
This course developed technicians’ capabilities in managing and supporting the use of technology in practical lessons. Participants learnt how to maintain and set up data loggers, mobile devices and apps, and the use of technology to magnify and record. Participants created comparison sheets for data loggers and mobile apps, discussed the use of technology to support practical science and undertook practical tasks as part of this course.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Helen Rose
Technicians CPD Lead
National STEM Learning Centre
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Develop your confidence in supporting the use of technology in practical work in science.
- Explore how data loggers, mobile apps and mobile devices can support practical work in schools and colleges.
- Identify and solve issues in the use of equipment and technology.
- Describe and suggest to teachers and students ways of using technology in the classroom.
- Evaluate equipment and technology available in your school or college for maximising student learning in practical work.
Syllabus
This course covers how to maintain and set up data loggers, mobile devices and apps and the use of technology to magnify and record. By the end of the course you will be able to deliver support to teachers and students in using cost effective technology in practical lessons.
Over the course of four weeks, you will be supported in identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the technology available in your own school or college and collaborate with other technicians to evaluate practical applications.
Issued on 18th June 2019
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