Case Study Dyffryn Comprehensive School School council, class reps, Welsh Bacc, Community Voice
Dyffryn School hosted two Digital Democracy Days to teach their class reps digital skills to make their roles more effective. During the sessions 26 young people learned how to operate VocalEyes – and developed their first project online. Before introducing VocalEyes, the school had a well-‐established School Council and a number of class representatives who meet regularly. There was no systematic way of capturing their ideas and meetings tended to focus on their own personal opinions. They wanted to work better as a team. Session 1: Learned how to use VocalEyes by taking on the challenge: ‘What would you like to learn in school that you are currently not learning?’ – highest rated ideas – personal finance/budgeting course; more work experience. Session 2: Set up a project to design the finance course, then responded to the community challenge: ‘Ideas to attract tourism into the Neath Port Talbot area’ highest rated idea – better beach facilities.
How VocalEyes helped? Impact: 26 class reps 131 ideas with 2515 ratings, 127 replies and 533 comments. & 1 Project Total 3,306 interactions captured. Legacy: Digitally-‐skilled, effective School Council The sessions delivered these awesome learning outcomes: Science/technology Developing their IT skills to collaborate online, learning net etiquette, experience of digital crowd-‐sourcing in a real life situation Communication Opportunity to ‘speak out’ digitally coming up with ideas to improve school, critical thinking, evaluation of others’ ideas, kindness Bilingualism Experienced of an online tool written in Welsh and English Welsh Baccalaureate Having identified work experience as a highly-‐rated idea, pupils are planning to deliver training in VocalEyes to local primary schools as part of their Welsh Bacc Community service. Key skills Reading, writing, number, how to assess data Evidenced School Experience of online rating and debating to be an effective school council engagement, community they identified Personal Finance as a highly-‐rated idea and are now engagement building a bespoke course as a result of this debate. Tourism ideas identified are being presented to local Tourism Partnership.
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