Notes and Ideas

Flow Chart

School Vision Key Question 'What is it that we want our school to stand for?' Action Questions ⋅ What is schooling in today's world? (looking teacher & student roles) ⋅ What skills do we want our kids to leave our school with? What big

ideas? What values and attitudes? ⋅ With all these skills, values and attitudes in mind, what is the purpose

of our school?

Vision for eLearning infusion into classroom practice What is your vision for eLearning in your school? Why is eLearning important? What should teaching and learning look like? Examples: ‘A community of learners where eLearning is infused into classroom practices’ or ‘A community of life-long learners who confidently use eLearning tools and online environments to connect, collaborate and create’.

e-Learning Strategy Making your vision happen!

Identifying key goals and strategies for:

⋅ Teaching & learning eLearning practices ⋅ Increasing teacher capability to plan for and model eLearning ⋅ Engaging with the community through eLearning ⋅ ICT supported administration and resourcing ⋅ Improved ICT infrastructure

ICTs and eLearning Model What is your school’s eLearning model?

Planning to develop capability to support eLearning and admin ⋅ What will we need to do to achieve our vision? In what ways

will ICTs be use, when and why? What changes need to be made and why? Who will be involved?

⋅ Infrastructure and computer network – how are things set up? ⋅ How will ICTs be organised in the school? How many

computers? Where are they? Do you lease or buy? ⋅ BYOD? Why? Who? What? Rationale & organisation. ⋅ Technical and e-Learning support – who and how? ⋅ What do we need to change?

Action Plan How will we put our plans into action? Relating to specific goals:

⋅ What needs to happen? ⋅ Who is going to do it and by when? ⋅ What was the result? ⋅ Reflections and where to next ⋅ Review annually

NZ Curriculum Confident, connected, actively involved, life-long learners eLearning Planning Framework • Leadership and strategic direction • Professional learning • Teaching and Learning • Technologies and Infrastucture • Beyond the classroom

Developing an eLearning Culture ⋅ Using digital formats and cloud

storage to co-create and share ⋅ eLearning shared by students and

teachers at assemblies, staff meetings and parent evenings.

⋅ Use of online environments (blogs) ⋅ Making e-Learning an integral

characteristic of your school

Teachers integrate eLearning to engage students in: ⋅ Exploring and experimenting ⋅ Thinking and working creatively ⋅ Reflecting and planning ⋅ Using feedback and self-

assessment ⋅ Creating new knowledge ⋅ Communicating with others ⋅ Working interactively ⋅ The use of online environments ⋅ Using SISOMO to give students a

voice and an audience

Visions of the future should be linked to students’ real world and interests. Questions need to be asked about how we see classrooms of the future and the role of the teacher in those scenarios. Changed teacher and student roles

21st Century Learners Life-long learners Actively involved Connected Confident Constructivist approach Personalised learning Inquiry learning Key Competencies Thinking strategies

Sharing an understanding that eLearning is where learning (increasingly) happens