QSITE Product Demonstration

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Presentation by Eric Holgate
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A Rapidly Changing World

• Information/Knowledge age - information
  explosion!
• More information has been published in the past
  50 years than in the previous 5000 years
• Current students have access to a body of
  knowledge that has doubled 4 times since 1990 -
  and the growth rate is increasing!
• Information technology rich world - but many
  classrooms are still information technology
  poor!

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The Changing Environment

• Many of todays students will enter careers that
  dont currently exist and use technologies that
  have not yet been invented!
• The world of work is changing
• security of employment
• increase in P/T and casual employment
• increasing numbers of people working from home -
  telecommuting
• outsourcing by organisations
• workplace restructuring/reform
• types of jobs, numbers of jobs
• industry / employment sectors

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Changing Employment Sectors
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Convergence
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National Goals for Schooling in the 21st Century

• Australias future depends upon each citizen
  having the necessary knowledge, understanding,
  skills and values for a productive and rewarding
  life in an educated, just and open society. High
  quality schooling is central to achieving this
  vision.
• (Extract from the Adelaide Declaration on
  National Goals for Schooling in the Twenty First
  Century - MCEETYA, 1999)

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Strategic Framework for the Information Economy

• Australias future prosperity in a global
  information society depends on its ability to
  harness information and communications
  technologies (ICTs) effectively and efficiently
  in order to gain new markets, boost employment
  and small business activity, and maximise
  innovation and creativity. Our education systems
  are fundamental pre-requisites enabling the
  achievement of these goals.
• (Strategic Framework for the Information Economy,
  MOIE, 1998)

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Education Network Australia (EDNA)

• young people must be prepared for different
  kinds of work and lives as consumers, critics and
  creators of knowledge in the 21st Century.
• (Moran, et al, Schools Advisory Group, EDNA,
  1999)

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DEETYA

• the rapid and far-reaching technological
  advances of post-industrial society, and
  associated changes in patterns and practices of
  employment and citizenship, have produced calls
  for a society and workforce able to cope with new
  demands of work, civic and domestic life in these
  changed and changing times.
• (DEETYA, 1997)

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CEO Forum - America

• To thrive in todays world and tomorrows
  workplace, Americas students must learn how to
  learn, learn how to think, and have a solid
  understanding of how technology works and what it
  can do.
• (CEO Forum - School Technology and Readiness
  Report, 1999)

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As educators, we should

• be proactive in preparing each generation of
  students for the world they will enter after
  school - they are comfortable and increasingly
  demanding of technology
• empower students with information technology
  literacy skills
• develop skills with integrating technology in the
  curriculum
• NOT let the directions be technology driven
• NOT constantly reinvent the wheel!

• Buying the technology, plugging it into a
  school, and thinking that things will improve is
  not enough
• (RAND Corporation - Gleenan, 1998)

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How can educators..

• develop the skills and expertise to use
  technology?
• prepare students for the information and
  technology-rich world of today and tomorrow?
• find the time necessary?
• avoid being technology-driven?
• minimise reinventing the wheel?

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TECHWORKS

• What is Techworks?
• A program which helps teachers and schools
  prepare students to be technologically literate
• Provides teachers with everything they need to
  teach technology skills within the curriculum
• Uses the hardware and software currently
  available in the classroom and the school
• Introduces technology skills at appropriate grade
  levels from P-8 while linking them with other
  skills and concepts being taught in the curriculum

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TECHWORKS
Consists of a series of kits, one for each P-8
grade level Each level has been developed around
a comprehensive scope and sequence - a detailed
set of over 400 technology objectives and skills
related to 14 different aspects of technology.
These concept areas are
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TECHWORKS 'The VIDEO'
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Each Level Includes

• Teacher Resources (in a separate folder)
• Lesson Plans (in a separate folder)
• Student Activity Sheets (in a separate folder)
• Resource CD
• Teacher Training Video

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Teacher Resource Notebook

• Technology Framework
• Overview of the program
• Ideas for scheduling, teaching assessing
• Rubrics for each technology concept
  Checklists
• Certificates for students
• Scope and Sequence
• Over 400 Technology skills, within each concept
  area
• Identifying three different delivery/mastery
  levels - Introduction,
• Mastery, Extension
• Curriculum Matrix
• Curriculum Connections
• Skill Matrix
• Parent Support Supplement
• Ideas for parent awareness, participation and
  support
• Samples for newsletters, letters to parents,
  information nights
• Curriculum Content for each Concept Area within
  that Level

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Lesson Plan Notebook

• Quick Guide
• Overview of the material being covered
• Lesson Plans, which include
• Sequential lessons within each Concept area
• Technology skill being covered
• Lesson objective/s (cross - referenced to
  scope and sequence)
• Suggested software (not hardware or software
  specific)
• Materials required
• Teacher pre-requisite/s
• Student pre-requisite/s
• Suggestions for introducing the skill
• Steps for teaching the lesson
• Activity for students to develop/practice the
  skill
• Curriculum connections (cross reference to how
  this
• lesson relates to other curriculum areas)
• Extension Activities

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Student Activity Binder

• Student Activities
• Sequentially numbered activities within each
  Concept area
• Numbered to correspond to Lesson Plans
• Technology skill being covered
• Step by step sequence
• Matches the content covered by teacher
• Allows student to practice the skills covered
• Use of Icons to help lower year levels
• What students do with the printed activity when
  finished
• Teacher uses assessment rubrics and checklists
  while
• students perform the activity
• Students can perform activities under guidance
  or in a self-
• paced mode

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Other Resources

• Video
• Overview of the program
• Demonstration lessons in three different
• delivery modes
• small group
• large group
• computer lab
• CD - ROM
• Files for reproducible materials, e.g.
• Parent Letters
• Checklists

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TECHWORKS
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Outcomes based Education
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