Simple Digital Technologies PD Day May 2022 | Purple Mash by 2Simple

The focus of the Simple Digital Technologies PD Day is on integrating digital technologies across the F-6 curriculum. This includes collaboration, communication, and creativity within a safe environment, appropriate for primary-aged students. Key concepts of differentiation and the management of groups are explored and overcoming some of the classroom challenges, keeping planning and implementation simple.

Teachers attend to:

spend the day with like-minded educators, hear real classroom experiences and be inspired to cultivate curiosity and creativity with collaborative, engaging, cloud-based digital technology solutions mapped to the curriculum.
explore best practice when integrating digital technologies across all primary levels, e.g. data, publishing, digital solutions, art, coding...

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experience digital sandpit time to create differentiated, rich learning tasks that integrate digital technologies across the curriculum.
enjoy networking opportunities and return to your classroom with real solutions you can try the very next day.

Some of the content descriptors covered:

Digital Technologies - VCDTCD017, VCDTCD018, VCDTDS013, VCDTDI020

English - VCELY163, VCELY302, VCELY269

Mathematics - VCMSP102, VCMSP235

Science - VCSIS053

Visual Arts - VCAVAV026

Feedback from Simple Digital Technologies PD Day 25th May 2022:

Veysel Tapci - Specialist Teacher, Dallas Primary Campus, Ilim College

Would you recommend this session to others? Yes, definitely would recommend my staff to attend future PD sessions.
How would you rate it overall? EXCELLENT 5/5 :)
What was the best thing about the session? We had two great presenters that explained everything in-depth and I loved how we had a small number of applicants, this enabled us to ask questions and have more time to understand how the system works.
This session could be improved by ... Everything was perfect, would not change a thing. Thank you

Behnaz Toranji – Specialist Teacher, Glenroy Campus, Ilim College

Would you recommend this session to others? YES! 100%!
How would you rate it overall? Excellent
What was the best thing about the session? The website is very user-friendly and very easy to navigate. I love the range of activities on how we can integrate technology into other areas of the curriculum on a daily basis.
This session could be improved by: I think everything was fantastic with the session and the whole presentation. Both presenters were very helpful and supportive in answering all the questions and covering the content. The length of the session was just perfect.

Emre Fat - Specialist Teacher Technologies Coordinator, Doveton Campus

Would you recommend this session to others? Yes, I would. The PD was engaging and informative.
How would you rate it overall? Excellent
What was the best thing about the session? Seeing how to use it across all subjects, how to assign activities to students and the overall use of the program.
This session could be improved by allowing teachers to explore more features for themselves and how they can incorporate them into the school & subjects taught.

Alessandra Saladino - Specialist Class Teacher, St Joseph’s School Brunswick West

Thanks so much for sharing all of this! I thoroughly enjoyed yesterday and it was so good to see what is being used in other schools and also how to use it.

Would you recommend this session to others? YES!
How would you rate it overall? Excellent
What was the best thing about the session? Hands-on experience, being able to trial as a student and as a teacher and seeing how you are able to use the great features. I loved seeing how it is aligned with the Victorian Curriculum.
This session could be improved by ... not sure! I think it was all very well run and delivered.

Marnie Power - STEM teacher and Digital Technology, St John's School, Heidelberg

Would you recommend this session to others? Definitely, I have been using Purple Mash for four years and still came away from this PD with new ideas for lessons and new knowledge about collaborative tools and display boards to enable us to share our work with parents. I can't wait to put these new tools into action in my classroom.
How would you rate it overall? The PD was really professional, it was the perfect amount of listening and doing, being able to sign in as both teachers and students gave us real insight. I enjoyed the networking opportunities with fellow attendees and hearing the roadblocks and successes in their school environment.
What was the best thing about the session? It was the first face-to-face PD I have been to in 3 years, I got a buzz out of sharing lesson ideas and tools with other teachers and have a new excitement about next term's program, which has written itself based on this day. I liked how when asked 'Can Purple Mash do this....?' the instructors asked 'what do you want it to do?' and a solution was found to target the classroom need.
This session could be improved by... I would love to watch a video of teachers talking about specific lessons where they have used Purple Mash as a bit of an intro. I also wish it was a two-day PD, with one day focussing on the teacher's point of view and the next day on the students' point of view. Many thanks for letting me be a part of the planning and the day itself. I was really energised by it all and learned a lot.