I think one of the really satisfying aspects of enhancing student learning through digital technologies is the ability to cater for different abilities so easily (and painlessly) in the classroom !!
In the hourofcode program last year in our school you had children in the same class at different levels/ making different progress , but all still engaged and happy 🙂 , one of the the points above refers to engaging experiences and how to do it but because children are so savvy in general on this part of life and confident , you can just support their learning as opposed to being the “panacea/ answer to everything ” .
The set of ipads in our school is used weekly by classes in diffrent ways , and a lot of the work is in pairs ( partially due to insufficient ipads for big classes ! ) . This again involves teamwork and peer learning and usually one person knows a bit more than the other so they’ll say ” oh you just do it this way ” or “you can use this shortcut ” .
Applying SSE guidelines to improve teaching for me is a no-brainer and happens in good schools without the fancy terminology !! I think we all look at things that are not going great and analyse why – then put solutions in place , which , if they work/don’t work, affects what we do next . Digital learning is no different .
The last point about professional development can’t be underestimated – I think older people with tech backgrounds or younger generations don’t really get the apprehension / intimidation felt by people around digital learning and technology – if professional devpt externally can’t be provided the school internally needs to support these people .