What’s this all about?
This session introduces teachers to challenge-based learning (CBL) and innovation-focused design as ways to engage learners in authentic tasks. Participants will experience a short challenge cycle, explore practical lesson structures, and identify ways to integrate iPad-supported creative workflows.
Who is this for?
Primary and Secondary teachers (all subjects)
Focus: Using iPad to design innovative, challenge-based learning experiences where students create, build, and lead their own learning
Rosenshine (modelling, scaffolding, independent practice)
Connectivism (networked learning, learner agency, creation of knowledge artefacts)
Challenge-Based Learning
SAMR (transformational tasks)
Session Overview
Participants will:
- Understand what makes a learning experience innovative, challenge-based, and creation-rich.
- Explore digital workflows that enable students to design, create, and publish their thinking.
- Experience practical iPad-based creative tasks that can be transferred across subjects.
- Learn how to scaffold and model creative tasks while maintaining high challenge.
- Identify opportunities to integrate student independence and leadership into lesson design.
By the end of the session, teachers will be able to:
- Design a challenge-based task that encourages student creativity and independence.
- Use Keynote, Pages, or iMovie to model and scaffold creation workflows.
- Apply the SAMR model to push tasks towards modification and redefinition.
- Implement digital strategies that make learning visible, active, and student-driven.
Format
In Person
Venue: Boroughmuir High School (Free Parking in Fountain Park)
When
Friday 30th January 2026 – 1:30 – 3:30 approx.
Elements of Highly Effective Practice
This course covers the following elements:
- Planning
- Teaching
- Learning
- Assessment
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