MBBC Digital Learning Program

Parent Information and Support Evening

Program for tonight

• Introductions

• What we’re doing and why

• How it looks in a class

• Devices

• Where to from here

• Panel – Q & A

A digital life

• To put technological change into the perspective ….. Look at the launch date of these technologies

• 1998 Google

• 2001 Wikipedia

• 2001 iPod

• 2003 MySpace

• 2003 3G mobile phones

• 2004 Facebook

• 2005 YouTube

• Our students have only ever known a world with Google, Wikipedia, Myspace/Facebook, and mobile phones with high speed Internet

Year 6s born around this time

Year 3s born around this time

Why eLearning?

• Melbourne Declaration

Goal 1: Australian schooling promotes equity and excellence

Goal 2: All young Australians become:

– successful learners

– confident and creative individuals

– active and informed citizens

• UNESCO - systemic economic growth is the key to poverty reduction and increasing prosperity - ICT are engines for growth and tools for empowerment with profound results.

• MBBC/MBC Strategic Plan 2014-2018 ….. “Provide learning experiences that reflect contemporary practices in educational research that enable the creation of a dynamic and innovative 21st Century learning environment.”

21st Century Employment

Imaginative / creative

Innovative / problem-solving

Speculative

Flexible

Tolerant

Empathetic

Critical in their thinking

Literate & numerate

Computer literate

Conciliatory

Able to negotiate

Independent

Team-oriented

Diagnostic / research savvy

Able to project consequences

Able to project into the feelings of others

C21st Australian employers demand that our graduates be:

20th century focused education

21st century focused education

Time-based Outcome-based

Focus:  memorization of discrete facts Focus:  what students Know, Can Do and Are Like after all the details are forgotten

Learners work in isolation – classroom within 4 walls

Learners work collaboratively with classmates and others around the world – the Global Classroom

Teacher-centred:  teacher is centre of attention and provider of information/passive

Student-centred:  teacher is facilitator/coach. Active

Lower Order Thinking Higher Order Thinking

Literacy is the 3 R’s – reading, writing and math

Multiple literacies of the 21st century – aligned to living and working in a globalized new millennium.

Factory model, based upon the needs of employers for the Industrial Age of the 19th century.  Scientific management.

Based upon the needs of employers in the Digital Age of the 21st Century.

Curriculum/School is irrelevant and meaningless to the students.

Curriculum is connected to students’ interests, experiences, talents and the real world.

Teaching about technology

Teaching with technology

Teaching through technology

ICT

ICT

ICT

Curriculum

Curriculum

Curriculum

“The challenge lies in shifting from teaching and learning about ICT to teaching and learning with and through ICT.”

Background

• Current IT provision

• Fibre link

• Discussion paper to Principal and Board - research

• Appointment of eLearning Co-ordinator

• Board Working Party

• Wireless upgrade, internet bandwidth, PD

MBBC DIGITAL LEARNING PROGRAM

PRIMARY

P – 3 4 - 6

MIDDLE

7 - 9

SENIOR

10 - 12

Digital Citizenship Program

Classroom Devices BYO iPad BYO Laptop BYO Device

Professional Development Program

E Learning Co-ordinator & Committee

Primary IT Lab Specialist Labs, Laptop pods

Why BYOD?

• Learning anytime, anywhere without schedule or access restrictions

• Parent-financed, allowing schools to devote much-needed funding to other programs or technologies

• Devices are commonly more up- to-date with newer features

• Development of time management skills for students

• Care of the devices – Students learning to take responsibility

• Efficiency- Personalized devices…(1 device for school & home)

• Allows for immediate application in the classroom

• Replicates a technology-rich environment already common in higher education and business

• Flexibility—support different learners with different needs

Where to from here• The website Digital Learning Hub

http://mbbc.qld.edu.au/curriculum/digital-learning/

• Further Information and Support evenings

• Day 0 for Year 4 boys

• Follow up letter with details and specifications

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A staged introduction