qsite presentation sept09 leading elearning
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Leading the eLearning vision at your school - strategies for leading your colleagues into the 21st century learning paradigm (Deb Jones)TRANSCRIPT
"Leading the eLearning "Leading the eLearning Vision for your School" Vision for your School"
Debbie JoneseLearning Co-ordinatorDepartment of Education & Training, South Coast Region
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Who am I?Who am I?
Primary Teacher / HOCeLearning Coordinator South Coast
RegionSenior Accredited Facilitator
Leading your vision…Leading your vision…
Sharing strategies that enable curriculum leaders to lead personalised professional learning to support and enhance teachers’ confidence and competence in digital pedagogy.
Our challenge as leadersOur challenge as leaders
Our challenge as leadersOur challenge as leaders
"We are entering the most dramatic Paradigm Shift in
learning ever!" Mark Treadwell
http://www.i-learnt.com/
http://www.i-learnt.com/
Convincing the mass..Convincing the mass..
Why do a large number (68%) of our
teachers not see the value in using
digital technologies within a learning
and teaching context?D.Jones2009
South Coast Digital Pedagogy South Coast Digital Pedagogy Leaders Community ProgramLeaders Community Program
The South Coast Digital Pedagogy Leaders Community program commenced in 2009 and currently has 69 Digital Leaders representing 37 schools.
Purpose: to form a regional community of practice where leaders collaborate to share and develop highly effective strategies to support localized needs and priorities, identified by participating schools.
Based on identified needs and demand from the region
Program GoalsProgram Goals
Develop capacity at a more localised level
Enhance leadership
Enable learning for all
Personalise learning opportunities for teaching staff
Meet the needs and priorities identified by schools
A guiding A guiding framework..framework..
Foundation Practicum Learning Foundation Practicum Learning Intentions:Intentions:
To develop, clarify and create: a toolkit of professional learning strategies to enable
personalised professional learning choices for staff members a shared understanding of effective eLearning (digital
pedagogy, eLearning spaces, digital content) the requirements for the Digital Pedagogy Licence a community of digital and human resources for ICT skill
support skills in identifying individual teacher needs to provide
personalised professional learning choices, aligned with school vision and priorities
a highly productive and beneficial professional learning community
Personalising learningPersonalising learning
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Our Mantra..Our Mantra..
What do you already know and
understand?
Thought provoking activity to develop new
understandings
Collaborate, Apply and Share
Reflect and adapt to own context
Strategies..Strategies..
Preflection – individually / school / community
Johari WindowCreating artefactsOnline collaborationCreate your own resource folderVisual PerceptionsWordle School Visions
This was an excellent experience that allowed us time to reflect on our beliefs about learning and teaching. The suggested strategies and community model connectedness and how we work with others to challenge our existing knowledge and adapt it in response to ongoing challenge.
Thankyou for your hard work, facilitation and acknowledgement of what is going on in schools and how this can be moved forward.
What’s the point?What’s the point?
Beliefs about learning and teaching
Digital PedagogyPlanning and ImplementingReflecting and
Contextualising
Developing a professional
learning network
Creating communities
of practice
Successful StrategiesSuccessful Strategies
Whole School PlanWhole School Plan
Co-Create and share a learning vision Identify needs of staffGroup accordingly Investigate available pathwaysDesign individual/group programsRevisit – Reflect – RefineShare - Celebrate
Learning through
technologies..
Showcasing success – small & big
Yellow Pages
5 minutes at staff meeting
Student led learning
Lunch timeconversations
The language that
we use….
Fine Tunings Protocols Peer
Coaching
Norms
Soccratic Dialogue
Lifelong learning…..
Model Learner
Creating Networks
Reflecting
Learn – ReLearn - Unlearn
Collaborating
Back to basics…..
Is it about curriculum coverage or is it Is it about curriculum coverage or is it about curriculum access?about curriculum access?
MEKI – 8 year old S/E Islander Dislikes writing and oral
presentations to peers MultimediaTask – Explain how
an object flies
Is about sexy&savvy or is it about Is about sexy&savvy or is it about learning?learning?
James – very disengaged in class IWB : small group maths challenge
Is it teacher centred or student centred?Is it teacher centred or student centred?Is this a record of student learning?Is this a record of student learning?
Group discussion to a challenging questionSome students lack confidence in
contributing out loud (often not heard)
Is this about catering to the different learning Is this about catering to the different learning requirements of our students – providing them with requirements of our students – providing them with multiple opportunities for them to access learning as multiple opportunities for them to access learning as well as be successful learners?well as be successful learners?
Reluctant writer – spelling difficultiesWordtalk ‘text to speech’
Do you limit your students to the expertise they can Do you limit your students to the expertise they can access physically or do you tap into what’s at your access physically or do you tap into what’s at your fingertips virtually?fingertips virtually?Is learning always a planned event or can it be self Is learning always a planned event or can it be self directed and independent?directed and independent?
Virtual Classroom “Environmental Studies”
Linked to authentic real life project
Connect with environmentalist
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Practical strategies..to explore Practical strategies..to explore contemporary learning and contemporary learning and teachingteaching
Expert Jigsaw…Expert Jigsaw…
Blames ChartsBlames Charts
Why do staff in my school not see the benefits in using digital
technologies?
World CafeWorld Cafe
Quote Walks…Quote Walks…
Contributions Charts..Contributions Charts..
Creating an artefact of a Creating an artefact of a contemporary learner….contemporary learner….
Collaboration in a WikiCollaboration in a Wiki
Pedagogy Perspective!Pedagogy Perspective!
Higher Order ThinkingAre students using higher‐ordering thinking operations within a critical
framework? Deep KnowledgeDoes the lesson cover operational fields in any depth, detail or level of specificity?
Inclusivity Are deliberate attempts made to ensure that students from diverse backgrounds are actively engaged in learning?
What’s my point?What’s my point?
Influence the majorityPersonalise & Contextualise plLearn through the tools not about the
toolsTeaching & Learning with studentsCelebrate learning
Persevere!Persevere!
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