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Digital Learning Resources _at_ digiLearn
A guide for Victorian teachers
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Research shows that digital learning resources
from The Le_at_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 Faces of Australia - R6420
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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.

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Digital resources
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Digital resources
Use as a stimulus for science-fiction writing or
to examine features of insects.
Green-headed ant R4278
Why did Paddy have to have a licence? Were the
rules in the WA goldfields the same as for those
in other colonies?
Paddy Hannans Miners Right, 1893 R4926
Campaign speech by John Curtin, 1937 R4225
Compare this campaign speech, delivered by John
Curtin in the 1930s, to those of today.
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Digital resources
Women were part of the war effort, too! Here,
they are shown wearing the newly issued summer
uniform of the Australian Womens 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 swimsuitR1776
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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.

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Multiple uses
The multiplier generate hard multiplications
Explore multiplication strategies and make sense
of the long multiplication algorithm.
Mathematics
pH aquarium
Use to explain pH or as a predict, observe,
explain (POE) task.
Science
Learn how meaning is constructed in film, or use
to teach visual literacy in English and/or media
studies.
Lights, camera, action camera
English
This house settling in Ballarat
Humanities
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.
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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.

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Mathematics
Match a photo of a group of geometric solids to
another photo that has been taken from a
different viewpoint.
Photo hunt
Discover how animals see things differently to
each other because of their eye structures.
Eyeball challenge slingshot puzzle
Science
The sea rescue context in this object makes the
creation and testing of a chart a challenging and
engaging activity.
English
Sea rescue plotting the course
Humanities
Collect items from flight logs to make a
multimedia newsreel about Australias early
aviators.
Heroes of the air
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Random or not explore runs of jubes
Mathematics
Explore patterns by effortlessly running
large-scale data experiments.
Tectonics investigator
Investigate the internal structure of the Earth
and identify how plate movements affect its
surface.
Science
English
Poetry anthology 1
Construct poetry with movement, sound colour and
words.
Humanities
Beth Murray cultural diversity on the Snowy
Mountains Scheme
Explore the history of the Snowy Mountains Scheme
through the people who worked on the project.
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A range of approaches

• Decision-making
• Experiential learning
• Games
• Investigation and inquiry
• Modelling

• Predict, observe, explain (POE)
• Problem-solving
• Research
• Simulation

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A range of approaches
Wishball thousandths
Mathematics
Use your knowledge of place value to get to a
target number in less than 20 tries.
Science
Investigate properties of shoes that make them
well suited for particular sports.
Sports shoe shoe 4 u
English
Letters to the editor interviews 1
Interview people at a public meeting and then
investigate opinions expressed in letters to the
editor.
Humanities
Samuel Cooper putting the rabble to work
Take on the role of a commandants clerk at Port
Arthur and decide which work to assign to a range
of prisoners.
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Its 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.
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Its the way you use it that matters
Set the rule for a frogs jump and explore the
pattern created.
Hopper challenge tenths
Mathematics
What is different atomically between liquids and
other types of matter?
Science
Types of matter solids, liquids and gases
Demonstrate how to assess the reliability of
texts by using the SAFE test (Source, Assertions,
Facts and Emotions).
English
Riddle of the black panther the search
Humanities
The first golden age of cricket
Use to discuss the influence of the British
empire on Australian life and/or the way sport
inspires national pride in Australians.
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otential.education.vic.gov.au/showcase
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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 doesnt. For more
details www.education.vic.gov.au/digilearn