Catholic Learning Online brings you Formative Assessment: See student results in real time

Learning Intention

In this session you will learn how to use formative assessment tools to quickly get real time insight into student learning during your lessons.

Success Criteria

You will know you are successful when:

• You can create formative assessments in Lucid using visual activities

• You can access and analyze the data to drive your instruction moving forward

• You can create lessons that support both collaboration and independent thinking

Australian Professional Standards for Teachers

This workshop addresses the following Standard Descriptors:

• 2.6.2 Use effective teaching strategies to integrate ICT into learning and teaching programs to make selected content relevant and meaningful

• 3.4.2 Select and/or create and use a range of resources, including ICT, to engage students in their learning

• 6.2.2 Participate in learning to update knowledge and practice targeted to professional needs and school and/or system priorities

Catholic Learning Online brings you "Microsoft 365 Learning Accelerators- Unlock the full potential of every student".

Microsoft Learning Accelerators is a new category of learning tools included in Microsoft 365 Education that helps streamline the creation, review, and analysis of practice assignments while providing students real-time coaching along the way to help them catch up, keep up, and get ahead.

This 1-Hour workshop showcases how the Learning Accelerators are designed to help educators unlock the full potential of every student with tools that support foundational and future-ready skills, allowing educators to give individual students more opportunities to learn, practice, and receive targeted coaching instantly in an inclusive environment to support ongoing improvement.

This session is perfect for classroom educators who are new or experienced users of Microsoft Teams for Education.

Learning Intention 

We are learning about tools within Microsoft Teams for Education that teachers may use to develop students';

• Reading fluency through individualized literacy instruction

• Ability to recognise and navigate their emotions with regular opportunities to share and be heard.

• Public speaking skills through real-time, individualized feedback

• Ability to develop information literacy skills through guidance and coaching to develop effective questions, search terms and evaluate reliable informaiton sources

Success Criteria

You will know you are successful when:

We will know we are successful when;

• We have developed a better understanding of what the Learning accelerator tools are capable of and how to use them productively in the classroom to enhance student learning.

• We have identified opportunities for the tools to be used as part of learning and put what we have learned into practice.

Catholic Learning Online brings you Encouraging creativity through small group collaboration [Lucid for Education]

Learning Intention 

In this session you will learn how to use Lucid for Education to encourage creativity through small group collaboration, as well as look through a variety of different examples of how to infuse student creativity into your curriculum.

Success Criteria

You will know you are successful when:

• You can use Lucidspark breakout boards to give students a collaborative workspace

• You can find templates to support student creativity

• You can identify areas in your curriculum that you can incorporate small group collaboration and creativity

Australian Professional Standards for Teachers

This workshop addresses the following Standard Descriptors:

• 2.6.2 Use effective teaching strategies to integrate ICT into learning and teaching programs to make selected content relevant and meaningful

• 3.4.2 Select and/or create and use a range of resources, including ICT, to engage students in their learning

• 6.2.2 Participate in learning to update knowledge and practice targeted to professional needs and school and/or system priorities

Catholic Learning Online brings you Google Fundamentals for Admin Staff.

This is the second session of two sessions for Admin Staff. These sessions will provide Admin Staff with an opportunity for staff to engage with some of the Google Workspace for Education productivity tools. This session will be faciliatated by Chris Betcher from Google. 

Session Overview

During this session, you will explore how to become more efficient and effective using Google Drive and some other productivity features in Google Workspace for Education.

You will learn how to:

• Navigate Google Drive efficiently and effectively

• Use Priority Drive and Shared Drives

Learning Intention

We are learning how to navigate Google Drive more effectively and explored other productivity tools

Success Criteria

We will know we are successful when we have developed a better understanding of how to navigate Google Drive and use other productivity tools

Catholic Learning Online brings you STEM: Science and Logic [Lucid for Education]

Session Overview

Vanessa, from Lucid for Education, will be the facilitator for this session. During this session, you will explore the STEM and Logic toolkits in Lucid and learn how to use them effectively with your students.

Learning Intention

Participants will learn how students, using the STEM Toolkit,

• Create science diagrams to share their learning

• Create UML, Network, cloud infrastructure and other computer science diagrams

• Create electrical schematics, heating and plumbing diagrams

• Can visualize and analyze complex processes with Lucidchart

Success Criteria

You will know that you are successful when:

• You can access Lucidchart's shape library

• You can create science diagrams, technical diagrams and process maps 

Australian Professional Standards for Teachers

This workshop addresses the following Standard Descriptors:

• 2.6.2 Use effective teaching strategies to integrate ICT into learning and teaching programs to make selected content relevant and meaningful

• 3.4.2 Select and/or create and use a range of resources, including ICT, to engage students in their learning

• 6.2.2 Participate in learning to update knowledge and practice targeted to professional needs and school and/or system priorities

Catholic Learning Online brings you "Using AI and ChatGPT to create, differentiate, give feedback and assess powerful learning opportunities for our students".

How can I use AI to help me teach?

How can I help students use AI ethically to improve their learning?

This session will explore AI, ChatGPT and other generative AI tool to answer these questions. We will discover how we can use these tools to help us to create, differentiate, give feedback and assess powerful learning opportunities for our students.

Who couldn't use a personal assistant?

This session is perfect for classroom educators who are new to generative AI tools like ChatGPT.

Learning Intentions

We are learning about AI tools that teachers and students may be using so that;

• We can use and benefit from the power of the AI tools

• We can develop an understanding of AI’s impact on the learning, teaching and assessment experiences in our schools

Success Criteria

We will know we are successful when;

• We have developed a better understanding of what the tools are capable of and how to use them productively

• We have explored the potential impact of AI on classroom practice and have ideas to move forward with.

Catholic Learning Online brings you an exciting primer for introducing entrepreneurial and design thinking skills into your classrooms with the help of Young Change Agents.

Young Change Agents is a non-profit social enterprise focused on developing the mindset, skillset and toolset of youth aged 10 - 21. 

They do this through social entrepreneurship programs combined with educator capacity building, the amplification of youth ideas, and technology platforms that provide badging and ePortfolios.

Learning Intention: 

Participants will...

• Understand the benefits of cultivating entrepreneurial and design thinking skills into your classrooms

• Explore a variety of design challenges and program resources available from Young Change Agents

• Learn how to quickly and easily sign up and get support through their free and sponsored program offerings

Success Criteria

Participants will know that they are successful if they can... 

• Register for and run an YCA (Young Change Agent) event

Additional Resources

• Future of Finance Challenge Sign Up

• Past Design Challenges

• $20 Boss Sign Up

• Young Change Agents Programs