School Transformation with ICT and eLearning

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School Transformation with ICT and eLearning

• Cecilie Murray
• eLearning
• Innovations Branch
• Department of Education Training

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Schooling

• Students
• 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
• Net Generation
• Socialise online
• Chat, SMS, games, simulations
• At ease in immersive worlds

• Teachers
• 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
• Print generation
• Socialise in restaurants
• News, current affairs, reading, holidays,
  Parkinson
• Aliens in an online world

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The new world
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CONSIDERATIONS
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Understand the players

• Description Birth Age Million ()
• Seniors Before 1925 77 0.94 5
• Builders 19261945 57-76 2.75 15
• Boomers 19461964 3856 4.75 25
• Generation X 19651981 2137 4.83 26
• Generation Y 19822000 220 5.15 29
• Generation Z 2001 lt2 0.25 1

Source Mark McCrindle
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Understandthe changing paradigm

• content - text on screen
• interaction - with content or machine
• relationships - instructional, social and
  supportive
• digital multimedia learning objects
• managed eLearning environments
• the e-Classroom
• m-Learning

1990
2000
2010
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Current data on Generation Y

• the technology generation
• multi-taskers balance email, chat, Instant
  Messenger, search, MP3 downloading homework.
• Internet use at school 80 children up to 17
  years
• Internet use at home 64 children up to 17
  years
• 58 5-12 year olds
• 86 13-18 year olds

Australian Bureau Statistics 2003 http//www.bandt
.com.au/news/68/0c00d768.asp
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The Game

• live the immediate internet downloads,
  overnight delivery, microwave meals direct
  fast-paced energy
• M-learning mobile learning
• The Nokia Game interactive, all-media adventure
  game where challenges are developed
  collaboratively using
• Mobile phones
• Instant Messenging
• Television
• Internet movie downloads
• http//www.nokiagame.com

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mLearning
http//home.m-learning.net/learn/iframe_page.htm
http//www.m-learning.org
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What digital content and tools can help
medesign, construct and deliver pedagogically
sound learning experiences for my students?
Teachers essential question
Schools essential question
What innovations, PD, management systems and
tools can assist me to lift engagement and
retention and bring about whole school
improvement?
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Background

• Ratio of computers to students is 13.9
• Bandwidth ranging from 64Kbps to 2Mbps (800 just
  upgraded)
• PODS in Secondary schools
• Notebooks for 91 of staff
• Commitment 40 hours ICT professional
  development.
• Research Notebooks proved effective for use in
  planning, assessment, reporting
• Barrier - minimal use for curriculum or
  integrated classroom use
• Strategy structured professional development
  program in how to integrate into curriculum
  pedagogy in the classroom

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DET Strategic Directions

• 1992-1995
• School Based Management, Curriculum and Standards
  Framework
• 1995-1998
• Establish Global Classrooms, Navigator Schools,
  Learning Technologies guidelines
• 1999-2002
• School eLearning plans, infrastructure rollout,
  large scale notebook professional development
• 2003-2008
• Mainstreaming of eLearning online pedagogy
  through integrated professional development

Research
Accountability
Knowledge Sharing
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VISION for Victoria
Objective to develop a Vision 2003-2008
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The Blueprint for Govt Schools
Teacher Learning
Curriculum in Govt schools
School improvement
Support
Research ? ICT Strategic Plan ?
eLearning Vision
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Future Policy Directions

• ICT leading school transformation innovation
• Student ICT Literacy skills
• Staff eLearning capabilities
• ICT Professional Learning Strategy
• Digital curriculum content
• School ICT architecture refreshed
  infrastructure

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• EMERGING LITERACIES

Objective to define the new literacies
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Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment the
current landscape
Students
Dr Olivia Clarke, TLF
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Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment the
current landscape
Students
Dr Olivia Clarke, TLF
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Range of technology and use grid
www.ncrel.org/enguage
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New Literacies

• Technology Literacy
• The ability to use new media such as the Internet
  to access and communicate information
  effectively.
• Information Literacy
• The ability to gather, organize and evaluate
  information, and to form valid opinions based on
  the results.
• Media Creativity
• The growing capacity of citizens everywhere to
  produce and distribute content to audiences of
  all sizes.
• Global Literacy
• Understanding the interdependence among people
  and nations and having the ability to interact
  and collaborate successfully across cultures.
• Literacy with Responsibility
• The competence to consider the social
  consequences of media from the standpoint of
  safety, privacy and other issues.

21ST Literacy Summit, Germany http//www.21stcentu
ryliteracy.org/whatis/index.htm
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PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
Objective to develop a professional learning
framework
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eLearning Capabilities

• Five stages of Integration
• Foundation Integrated Innovative
  Transformative Leadership
• Supported by
• Professional learning from schools, industry
  professional associations in a mentor model
• eLearning capabilities for profiling teacher
  skills and planning professional learning
• Online survey tool
• Professional learning planning tool

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eLearning capabilities matrix
Planning management Learning, Teaching curriculum Learning resources Professional development practice Culture
Foundation Plan for including ICT in curriculum Use ICT in some curriculum areas Browse, locate and create simple learning resources with ICT Participate in workshops or online activities Provide a supportive ICT learning environment in the classroom
Integrated Develop appropriate strategies to manage ICT in the classroom Use ICT to cater for student learning styles, information digital literacy skills Locate, evaluate and use digital resources in the classroom Engage in ICT professional development activities that inform teaching practice Ensure learners understand ethical, legal and online safety guidelines
Innovative Reflect, evaluate plan for ICT to support learning outcomes Use ICT to support students understandings, ideas and interpretations Contribute to shared local and global resources Share skills understandings in supportive networks with colleagues Teacher models good practice and demonstrates innovative eLearning practices
Transformative Use ICT for supporting colleagues in administration or assessment reporting Use digital content and communication tools to support student staff global learning Manage storage retrieval of digital resources Reflect evaluate teaching practice across the school in the integrated use of ICT Participate in  eLearning communities with colleagues, parents community
Leadership ICT is used appropriately within the school to support admin, management, teaching learning Future impacts upon teaching learning and the curriculum are planned for. ICT and digital resources are flexible and easily accessible to all staff and students (and community) A planned programme of staff development is agreed to cover anticipated needs eLearning Plans are intentional and focuses on future potential and intended outcomes.
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Reinventing Education
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CONTENT
Objective to deliver new digital content to
schools
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Its a Dragloads in a web browser window
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Comic Creations loads in a web browser window
Hip Hop Dance loads in a web browser window
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Kahootz 3D Multimedia Software
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Digital Learning Objects
Object approaches
Convergence
eLearning
Personalization Dynamic content assembly
Object approaches
Enterprise content
Knowledge Management
Learning on Demand
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Student learning management architecture
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Innovative models of schooling
delivery of eLearning to students in school, at
home or in other schools
Regular Classroom - offline activities
eClassroom online activities
Collaboration communication, sharing best
practice across schools
receiving teaching and learning from other schools
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School transformation

• School ICT audit and eLearning plan
• Student ICT literacy skills
• Improving staff eLearning capabilities
• Planned ICT professional learning
• Digital curriculum content
• School architecture for information and learning
• Refreshed infrastructure and system support
• Research and development