Wireless - Connecting learners into our vision for a Connected Learning Community.

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Wireless - Connecting learners into our vision
for a Connected Learning Community.
Aidan McCarthy Director of Information and
learning Technologies 4 July 2001
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About JPC

• An ecumenical independent childcare year 12
  international school in Queensland
• 2300 students
• 310 staff
• 23 million annual turnover
• Renowned for
• Technology program
• Marching Band
• Arts sporting program

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Our Vision

• At John Paul College our vision is to create a
  Connected Learning Community through a commitment
  to developmental learning and teaching
• Student at the centre of the learning process
• Learning be contemporary and relevant
• How to learn is more important that what to
  learn
• Learning is a life-long process
• Learning be fun
• Learning is connected

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Our curriculum vision

• to provide a learning environment, where the use
  of powerful information and learning technologies
  are integrated into students everyday
  experiences

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How does technology facilitate developmental
learning?

• Allows for continuous learning
• Allows for collaborative learning
• Caters for all learning styles, and all skill
  levels
• Is fun
• Allows for the learning program to be designed by
  the learner

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How does technology facilitate developmental
learning?

• Allows for personal management of knowledge in
  terms of
• Relevance
• Timeliness
• Format multimedia web-enabled interactive

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A student focused curriculum

• Being able to use technology without thinking
  technology
• The (i) (Sony) (n) -generation dont need to
  think outside the box. They dont know a box
  exists.
• Albert Lai

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• Putting computers into some schools is akin to
  putting an internal combustion engine into a
  horse.
• Lewis Perelman 1992

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The New Basics

• To read print and visual media
• To communicate in multiple forms written, oral,
  body, visual and electronic
• To work independently and interdependently
• To be reliable
• To be effective problem solvers
• To think critically as well as imaginatively
• To be flexible and adaptable
• To use new tools of information and knowledge
  management technologies
• To learn how to learn

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Encarta Class Server
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Encarta Class Server
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We realise

• Recent reports in the US and Australia sees a
  widening jobs and skills market with statistics
  of more than 500,000 ICT jobs unfilled in the US
  and over 35,000 unfilled positions in Australia.
• .. By 2004 there would be about 180,000 unfilled
  Information and Communications Technology jobs
  unfilled in Australia.
• 20 March 2001, The Australian

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• "Basic skills training for teachers is beginning
  to bite. But by and large, the integration of the
  technology into daily classroom practice, isnt
  happening anything like fast enough..." Lord
  Puttnam T.E.S.
• Newspoll
• 77 of respondents see Education NO 1 issue
  before Health
• Knowledge Nation - ALP

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CLC Vision

• Anywhere, Anytime Learning
• Knowledge Management
• Technology
• Hardware
• Software
• Peripherals
• Communications
• Network
• Wireless connectivity
• Internet
• VPN
• Technical
• Professional Development
• Business partners

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Knowledge Management

• the art of creating value from an organisations
  intangible assets
• Karl Erik Sveiby

• Creating and storing knowledge in repositories
• Measuring the educational value of knowledge
• Facilitating the transfer of knowledge
• Creating a knowledge-sharing environment

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• Creating and storing knowledge
• in repositories

• JPC Internet/ Intranet
• Connected Learning resources
• An integrated technology learning curriculum
• Digital curriculum content and resources
  available anywhere, anytime
• A web enabled Learning Management system
  Encarta Class Server
• Personal /Public web folders, email
• Conferencing Server
• Share Point Team Services

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2. Measuring the educational value of
knowledge

• Staff Professional Development to enable students
  to become discerning users of information
• Information Literacy Knowledge Literacy
• Digital Curriculum with assessment and evaluation
• Instant
• Interactive
• Accessible anywhere, anytime
• Quality assurance digital curriculum content
• Student and Parental feedback Market share

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3. Facilitating the transfer of knowledge

• 3Com Gigabit network with 2000 concurrent
  connections
• Windows 2000 server pool
• SAN implementation 2002
• 3Com Radio connectivity 1400 1900 by the end
  2001
• 1800 Toshiba Notebooks and 150 desktops
• 2 Megabit Internet connection
• Proxy to control downloads, type of downloads,
  access, filtering
• Interactive Learning Centres in Primary and
  Secondary Libraries
• LAN telephony implementation 2002

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3. Facilitating the transfer of knowledge

• Windows 2000 Advanced Server for File and Printer
  Sharing
• IIS 5.0 for web hosting
• Internet Security and Acceleration Server
• Exchange 2000 Server
• Conferencing Server
• SQL Server 2000
• Encarta Class Server
• SMS 2.0
• Terminal Server to run applications off campus
  i.e. School Database
• Pcounter to Control Student Printing
• CDNET to share 70 CDROMS to school network

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Our Technology

• A Student and Staff Notebook program of 1800
  computers
• 200 Desktops that support resource centres,
  classrooms and administration
• Radio connectivity 1450 connections/ 44 access
  points across campus
• An integrated technology learning curriculum
  Professional Development
• Online digital curriculum and resources available
  anywhere, anytime
• Complete VPN

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3. Facilitating the transfer of knowledge
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Classroom Tools
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3. Facilitating the transfer of knowledge

• Wireless Issues
• Internet controls and bandwidth usage
• 1 gig backbone 11Mb Wireless cards
• Auto sensing base stations
• Walls and steel Wireless loves windows
• Stolen cards easy to detect
• Creation of content- able to be utilised on the
  Net 11Mb no problem
• Quality of cards?
• Use of anonymous accounts unworkable
• Free software to enable hacking

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Our Technology Vision

• To create an anywhere, anytime school where
  parents, teachers, students and business partners
  are part of an interconnected learning community.
  

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3. Facilitating the transfer of knowledge

• Access to the College Intranet, email and digital
  curriculum and learning resources through
  www.myjpc.com Community web site
• Professional Development and training
• Conceptual
• Integrated
• Certified
• Developmental
• Individualised

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4. Why AAL?

• Why AAL?
• A catalyst for change engaged and empowered
  learners
• Significant changes in learning outcomes
• A change that focuses on learning
• An AAL program is about changing the dynamics,
  methodologies and outcomes of learning for
  students

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Professional Development

• An outcomes-based systematised and certified
  curriculum that incorporates five key elements in
  every session
• fun
• technology
• the application of technology to everyday life
• using technology tools for overall development -
  creativity, logical thinking, lateral thinking,
  listening skills, general knowledge and life
  skills
• personal achievement and growth for every learner
  

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Primary Curriculum
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Secondary Curriculum
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Certification
Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS)
Certification
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myjpc.com
Internet
ISP
Digital Curriculum
Home
2 mb DDS link
JPC
Digital Curriculum
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4. Creating a knowledge-sharing environment

• The Intranet provides a publishing house for
  teacher and student sharing and presentation
• Our PR http//www.jpc.qld.edu.au website
• Our intranet http//intranet.jpc.qld.edu.au/il/hom
  e/
• Microsoft Encarta Class Server -
• http//encarta.jpc.qld.edu.au/EncartaClassServer/
  Signin.htm
• Our community site http//www.myjpc.com/ July 26,
  2001
• Professional Development and training
• Human resources and changing skill sets

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www.myjpc.com

• A community web site that includes links to
• Co-curricula such as golf, hockey, rugby etc.
• Family web sites, Email lists, Chat groups
• College calendars
• Study hints, Hot sites educational, sporting,
  cultural, financial
• Virtual shopping mall - Advertising with
  discounts for family members advertising for
  family businesses
• Community technology training sessions that
  include certification such as the international
  drivers licence
• An email account and web site for each family in
  addition to student and staff school accounts
• Web streaming of sporting and cultural activities
  
• Student radio station

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Encarta Class Server
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Encarta Class Server

• From a look and use Intranet to a collaborative
  online learning management system
• Access from anywhere in the world
• Interactive, dynamic digital content with online
  assessments that can include instant results
• Integrated Heinemann Reed Publishing resources
  that have IP permission
• Parent access with their own password
• Net meeting/Team Services/ email and chat
  services

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Digital Content
Demonstration Intranet http//intranet.jpc.qld.ed
u.au/il/home/ Encarta Class Server
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People

• Chief Information Officers
• Librarians Knowledge Managers
• Trainers
• Content developers
• Systems Managers Technicians
• Integrators
• Curriculum developers
• Quality assurors
• Multimedia specialists
• Web developers
• Graphic designers
• Video and Sound editors .
• Keeping Staff??

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Teachers

• Our teachers are in paradigm changes. They
  require skills not only to use technology but
  also to become a learner themselves.
• Teachers now need to be able to
• collaborate, architect, communicate clear goals
  and targets, promote active learning , mentor-
  team work, make real life connections, work new
  audiences, produce spiral activities, remove
  barriers, promote creativity (artistic
  thinking) and imagination and self reflect.

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John Paul College

• Many say we are -
• A technology rich school where anywhere,
  anytime learning occurs using portable
  technologies , radio connectivity, Internet etc.
  etc. etc
• or are we, as our students perceive us, simply
• A contemporary school for the the 21st century ,a
  school for the kids of today where parents,
  teachers and students are connected learners,
  through an interconnected learning community

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Our Vision

• At John Paul College our vision realises we are
  working to prepare a new kind of student that we
  are using brand new tools, for a life that we
  cannot clearly see or describe today that
  embedded in this challenge are fantastic
  opportunities and that teaching should and can
  be the most exciting profession on the planet.

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Contact

• Aidan McCarthy
• John Paul College
• amccarthy_at_jpc.qld.edu.au