School Transformation School Transformation with ICT and eLearningwith ICT and eLearning

Cecilie MurrayCecilie MurrayeLearningeLearning

Innovations BranchInnovations BranchDepartment of Education & TrainingDepartment of Education & Training

SchoolingSchooling

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

The new worldThe new world

Thinking Curriculum

E-LearningM-Learning

Learning

ITICTs

CONSIDERATIONS

Description Birth Age Million (%) Seniors Before 1925 77+ 0.94 5%Builders 1926–1945 57-76 2.75 15%Boomers 1946–1964 38–56 4.75 25%Generation X 1965–1981 21–37 4.83 26%Generation Y 1982–2000 2–20 5.15 29%Generation Z 2001+ <2 0.25 1%

Understand the players

Source: Mark McCrindle

Understand…the 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

Current data on Generation YCurrent 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

The GameThe 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

mLearningmLearning

http://home.m-learning.net/learn/iframe_page.htm

http://www.m-learning.org

What digital content and tools can help meWhat digital content and tools can help medesign, construct and deliver pedagogically sound learning design, construct and deliver pedagogically sound learning

experiences for my students?experiences for my students?

Teacher’s essential question

School’s essential question

What innovations, PD, management systems and tools What innovations, PD, management systems and tools can assist me to lift engagement and retention and bring can assist me to lift engagement and retention and bring

about whole school improvement?about whole school improvement?

BackgroundBackground• Ratio of computers to students is 1:3.9

• 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

DE&T Strategic DirectionsDE&T Strategic Directions1992-1995

• 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

VISION for VictoriaVISION for Victoria

Objective: to develop a Vision 2003-2008

Research Research ICT Strategic Plan eLearning VisionSupport:

High Quality Student Learning

Excellence & Excellence & InnovationInnovation

The Blueprint for Gov’t SchoolsThe Blueprint for Gov’t Schools

School improvement

Curriculum in Govt schools

Teacher Learning

Future Policy DirectionsFuture 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

EMERGING LITERACIES

Objective: to define the new literacies

Students

Bloom’sTaxonomy

Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment the current landscape

Cognition

•Metacognition•Situated Cognition

•Distributed Cognition

Subject Schemata

content

skills

Learning styles

Dr Olivia Clarke, TLF

Students

Multiple Intelligences

Strategies for effective

teaching and learning

Generic /21st Century SkillsProblem-solving

Critical thinking

Team building and team work

Persistence

Creative and lateral thinking

Personal and time management

Information and media literacy

Inter-personal, inter-group, cross-cultural communication

Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment the current landscape

Dr Olivia Clarke, TLF

Range of technology and use grid

www.ncrel.org/enguage

New LiteraciesNew 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.21stcenturyliteracy.org/whatis/index.htm

PROFESSIONAL LEARNINGPROFESSIONAL LEARNING

Objective: to develop a professional learning framework

eLearning CapabilitieseLearning 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

eLearning capabilities matrixeLearning capabilities matrixPlanning & 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.

Reinventing Education

CONTENTCONTENT

Objective: to deliver new digital content to schools

It’s a Dragloads in a web browser window

Comic Creations

loads in a web browser window

Hip Hop Danceloads in a web browser window

Kahootz 3D Multimedia Software

Digital Learning ObjectsDigital Learning Objects

Learning on Demand

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Objectapproaches

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ConvergenceEnterprise content

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Student learning & management architectureStudent learning & management architecture

Statistical Information System

eMail

Collaboration

Portal

ReportingLesson Planning

Content Mgmt

Learning Management

System

The system will join up existing disparate systems into an integrated, student centred system.

Regular Classroom

- offline activities

delivery of eLearning to students in school, at home or in other schools

Collaboration & communication, sharing best practice across schools

receiving teaching and learning from other schools

Innovative models of schooling

eClassroom

online activities

School transformationSchool 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