Raising e-capability: Roadmaps and signposts

#kidzatthecentreKaren Melhuish Spencer @virtuallykaren

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What’s coming up?•What’s important?

•e-Learning Planning Framework: the what, the how, the why

•Where might you start?

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Palm pilots and certificates

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What is the issue for this school?

Future-focused learning

Source: Frame and Brown (2008, p. 226).; image from gapingvoid.com

“wicked problems...highly complex, uncertain, and value-laden”

What’s important?

Thriving in a digital world

YouTube source: Rethinking Learning: The 21st Century Learner | MacArthur Foundation

What is the role of...• leaders?• teachers?• professional learning?• technologies and infrastructure?• whānau and community?

How will we get our learners

ready?

How is your school preparing learners’ for a digitised future?

What is the e-Learning Planning

Framework?

www.elearning.tki.org

A shared, national roadmap

➡ where are we?➡ where might go next? ➡ how might we get there?

Source: HealingMinds.co.uk

TextEmerging Engaging Extending Empowering

✓finding out✓planning

✓investigating

✓teacher-directed

✓ICT as add-on

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✓trialing✓establishing

✓increased focus on learning✓growing

awareness and use

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✓aligned & strategic

✓integrated

✓focus on learning

✓authentic use✓shared roles

✓whole community

Image: Mark Pinder for the Guardian

✓sustained✓ubiquitous

✓24/7

✓higher-order✓community

driven✓networked &

blendedImage: chesbayprogram

What’s the point?

What if ....schools do not strategically integrate digital

technologies?

 

Source: alubavin

what’s the point?

Access

Inclusion

Equity

Engagement through prior knowledge

Source: wakingphotolife

Opportunity to

participate

New pathways to

new knowledge

Civic engagement

the promise of ultra-fast broadband....

Fibre to the gate...wireless...switches..routers

Speed...reliability....volume

Services: LMS, emails, video conferencing, storage...

Appropriate choice for teaching and learning

Personalised learning: e-portfolios, collaboration, flexibility

VISION: Connected, capable, lifelong learners

it takes a village...

Sustained, involved

leadership

Blended, inquiry-focused

professional community

Authentic, higher-order, collaborative

learning

Equitable, open access to reliable ICTs Culturally

responsive, connected

community focus

How are schools using it?

“... (the ELPF) meant that the senior team could get the real picture rather than assumptions. It is a good guiding document so schools know where to go next rather than guessing - or leaving the harder parts out and only focusing on say resourcing, for example.... it provides a framework for support”

www.vln.school.nz

not on the plate - it is the plate

Source:Self review tool for teachers [http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/National-Standards/Self-review-tools/Teachers].

A possible way forward

what could the school have done?

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e-Learning reviews...• Integrate with the

whole school strategic plan

•Involve the school community

•Are deliberately lead

•Draw on evidence

•Are iterativeImage by jemsweb

Content on TKI & community in the VLN

How might you use it?

One action that you will take away

from here today.....

www.elearning.tki.org.nz

Using Storybird to improve literacy

Explore a dimension

Trial

Begin to focus on learning

Find out

Tech focus

Integrate

Aligned to needs

Sustain

Ubiquitous &

networked

WHAT we learn

HOW we learnThe properties of ICTs

context