The Australian Digital Education Revolution

Griffith University

Dr Jason Zagami

www.zagami.info

Kelvin Baird Alison Borland Ronald Borland Celia Canning Alan DrakesmithDavid EddieDuncan GillespieDouglas Jones Amanda MarrinanJoe Peter Mazzarella Karen Swift Wilma Withers Jason Zagami

Queensland Society for Information Technology in Education

Australian Council for Computers in Education

International Society for Technology in Education

Canada: Vancouver

USA: Seattle

USA: San Francisco

Alan, Duncan and Celia - National Curriculum and the DERJoe, Kelvin and Doug - One to one and the DERDave, Ron - Online learning and the NBNKaren and Alison - Approaches to Professional DevelopmentAmanda and Wilma - What the DER looks like in the classroom

Australian National Curriculum

ICT Implications

History• State based Curriculum

• 1989 Adelaide Declaration on Schooling

• 1990s - 2000s Drive for National Curriculum

• 2008 Agreement

• 2008 NAPLAN begins

3 Phases

•K-10 and 11-12 separate

•Phase 1 - English, Maths, Science, History

•Phase 2 - Geography, Languages, Arts

•Phase 3 - “including” design and technology, health and physical education, ICT, economics, business and civics and citizenship.

Phase 1•March 2010

Draft Curriculum Documents

•Online Consultation

• Pilot Schools trialing curriculum

• August 2010 re-drafted documents published for K-10

•October 2010 for re-drafted documents published for 11-12

Ten general capabilities

•literacy

•numeracy

•ICT

•thinking skills

•creativity

•intercultural activities

•teamwork

•social competence

•ethical behaviour

•self-management

ICT Implications• English - “multi-modal /

digital focus”

•Maths - “technology should be used for teaching and learning situations”

• Science - “Information and communication technologies (ICT) are relevant to the teaching and learning in a large part of the Curriculum”

ICT Implications

•“The decision about using technology in assessment programs is not within the province of the curriculum, jurisdictional assessment agencies will make that decision.”

•Development of curriculum for ICT as a subject is some years away

ICT Implications• There is an

expectation that students and teachers have access to the necessary ICT resources

•DER - Digital Education Revolution

•NBN - National Broadband Network

Motivations

•Comparibility and transferability

• Scalability

•Consultative Process to improve on the Draft

Issues and Concerns

• Subject based with a half nod to 21C learning as a second tier

• Levels of Achievement still attached to years K-12

•Heavy in prescribed content

• Timeframe for feedback and revision

USA - Funding• “Democratic”

• Inconsistent priorities

• A lot of local say

•Many pockets of excellent practice

• Emphasis on STEM

USA - Curriculum• State based

standardised assessment

•District based curriculum approaches

• School Board influences on curriculum

•Concern of heavy emphasis on teaching for the test

Canada

•Funding de-centralised like the USA

•Curriculum Province based

•10% of Year 7-12 students take at least one online unit in British Columbia

•Everything came with bacon