Spring 2 Newsletter Publish - The Evolve Trust

Using Technology Across the
Trust
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Microsoft Teams has been an integral part of our software provision at the
Trust for several years and, since the school closure, we are seeing a huge
increase in its use to support student learning at home. It can even be used to
host meetings, using the Video Conferencing Function. Mr Lucas has used it to
host meetings with Senior Leadership and Mr Atkin is planning to host an
interactive video lesson with his Year 10s.
A massive thanks to Tony and Jayne Cartwright who have worked tirelessly to
get the Teams Year groups established as well as providing several guidance
packages on how to use different aspects of Teams, for students and staff.
Moreover, John Solly and Steph Dickinson have developed fantastic PowerPoints
on the use of Teams.
Weduc is an additional platform we use at the Trust.
It also helps keep parents up to date.
SENECA is an online platform that covers OCR, AQA, WJEC, Edexcel,
Eduqas, iGCSE as well as Key Stage 3 content. All the courses are exam
board specific and written by senior examiners & industry experts.
You can create multiple classes, invite your students via email or a
class code and set homework. Each assignment will show you
the student's grade, study time and number of attempts. Seneca
works with top neuroscientists to continuously improve the platform.
Research has found that students learn 2x faster using Seneca
compared to a revision guide. This ground breaking research involved
1,120 students and was published in the peer reviewed academic
journal IMPACT. Seneca also provide free CPD courses for teachers to
help apply these practices in the classroom.
This is a great platform which is free. The Trust has made a big push
with this, with Mr Morrin sending a guidance email to all staff on how
to use it to setup classes, assignments. In light of the school closures:
• 113,999 new students started learning on Seneca in the last 3
days.
• 6,438 teachers started using Seneca in the last 3 days.
• The 2,957,659th person signed up to use Seneca for free.
• The 18th March 2020 was Seneca's busiest day ever with over
300,000 people using the site for distance learning.