ACEL 09

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ACEL 09

• _at_School NT
• NT Distance Learning Service
• John Bennett
• To learn is to change. Education is a process
  that changes the learner.
• --George B. Leonard Human Potential Movement

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There is more to knowledge thanJust Google IT
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Personalised Learningin 5.3 minutes

• Flock Social Network Browser
• Twitter Friend Activity Keven Rudd sent me a
  twit from America
• Google announced that it has indexed 1 trillion
  web pages
• Facebook now has 300 million users - 7 million
  people short of living in the USA
• 140,000,000 videos in YouTube - 100,000,000
  viewings of those videos every single day
• Added 10 ways to unblock Websites to my Diigo
  account under eduit tag
• Added a comment to "By 2015 we are going to be
  short by 18 million teachers" which was also sent
  to my Diigo virtualschool group
• Searched Twitter for virtual learning - found a
  link posted 3hrs ago on the history of Virtual
  learning environments
• I have 635 bookmarks organised into 20 tags
• I have 107 virtualschool bookmarks

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Personalised Learning

• My Personalised Learning Environment
• Twitter 38 following, 46 followers, 108 Tweets
• Blogger 16 Blog posts viewed 672 x
• Ning networks 3 accounts
• Facebook account
• Diigo 635 public bookmarks
• Youtube uploaded 13 videos viewed 690 x
• Flickr 26 pictures - viewed 436 x
• Online named jjfbbennett - 2,530 results

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Home Environment

• 2 adults 4 children
• 2 x PCs
• 2 x laptops
• 2 x netbooks
• 5 x mobile phones
• 2 x Nintendo DS
• 4 x mp3
• 1 x TV connected to Austar
• 4 x Radio/CD players

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The connected family

• Do you think this has any implications for
  education?
• The Connected Family by Papert
• the proliferation of low-cost personal computers
  and net access throughout society shifts the
  locus of learning innovation from the school to
  the home
• Access to enriched Multi-media Kyle is 11 (UK)
• Consumer Kids Ed Mayo Agnes Nairn

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In Educationchange doesnt just happen

• Thomas Edison in 1922,
• The motion picture is destined to revolutionize
  our educational system and in a few years it will
  supplant largely if not entirely the use of
  textbooks.
• Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
• The best way to predict the future is to create
  it.

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NT Virtual School Trial 2008 -9LOTE Music
Philosophy
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NT Virtual School Trial _at_School NT Pilot

• NT Distance Learning Service
• Trial NT Virtual School 2008 - 2009
• Japanese, Indonesian, Philosophy and Instrument
  Instruction
• ICT Learning NT Distance Learning Service
• Pilot _at_School NT 2010 -11
• Japanese, Indonesian, Philosophy, Instrument
  Instruction, Chemistry, Mathematics (Advanced),
  Geography, Game Design, ESL English, VET
  Hospitality and OHS, Engaging in Languages
  (Primary School Level).

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_at_School NT Structure

• Assessment School Assessment Teacher /
  Instructor
• Contact School Study Coach
• Connected Students Face to Face Virtual
• Class Size 10 F2F 10 Virtual
• Enable student access to quality teachers,
  programs and resources
• Enable teachers to employ 21st Century teaching
  and learning tools

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Decentralised Service

• _at_School NT
• Objective Decentralisation of Best Practice
• Antonym Silos and a hording culture
• Centralian Senior Secondary College
• Casuarina Senior College
• Darwin High School
• Palmerston High School
• Taminmin High School
• NT Language Centres
• NT Music School
• NTOEC
• Achievement
• An agreed timetable for 11 courses
• Establishment of connected classrooms and study
  areas

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NT DET Conditions

• Population of 221,100 over 1,349,129 square kms
• 2008 second largest growth at 2.2
• 2009 - 35 of students in the NT below the
  national minimum standard
• 33 of NT students Indigenous - 80 per cent of
  those students in very remote schools
• Australia - shortages in Maths, Science, Foreign
  Languages , IT, English, Performing Arts and
  Special Needs
• NT has to recruit most of its teachers from
  outside the state and is vulnerable to teacher
  shortages
• Students as clients require 21st Century skills
  digital literacy A changing student cohort who
  want to use technology in their learning is an
  opportunity to lead the all curriculum subjects
  into the digital age
• More of the same wont change outcomes

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m-Teenagers

• Mobile Phone Ownership (USA)
• 12 - 17 year olds - ownership of a mobile phone
• 2004 45 2006 63 2008 71
• Pew Internet pewinternet.org

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Changing literacy interface

• Mobile devices are rising
• Newspapers and Magazines are declining
• Orange - e-reader, iRex, Amazon Kindle, Sony
  e-book
• G3 always connected

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Do we presently deny students digital literacy
needs?

• Being able to access the Internet
• find, manage and edit digital information
• join in communications
• and otherwise engage with an online information
• and communications network,
• are arguably aspects of what could be called
  'digital literacy (2007)
• http//knowledgetree.flexiblelearning.net.au/editi
  on07/html/c_blackall.html

Engage students with digital literacies
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_at_School NT - decisionReform or Transform Learning

• REFORM
• changing procedures, processes, and technologies
  with the intent of improving the performance for
  existing operating systems
• The aim is to make existing systems more
  effective at doing what they have been always
  been intended to do
• TRANSFORMATION
• repositioning and reorienting the organization
  into a new business model
• adopting a radically different means of doing
  the work it has traditionally done
• JUST HANGING IN

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Student enforced change
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Challenging Mindsets

• Teachers closed mindset issues
• Im sitting here at the kitchen table grading
  student work tonight . Its still mostly about
  simple paper and pencil tasks.http//borderland.
  northernattitude.org/2009/08/26/intrinsic-and-extr
  insic-motivation/
• Present comfort zone
• Present personal values
• Locked into the perceived successes of past and
  present methodologies
• Unable to perceive the connection of technology
  pedagogy and content
• _at_School NT open mindset
• _at_School NT expects teachers to reconsider their
  teaching practices
• _at_School NT expects teachers to explore new
  solutions to new problems
• Future focussed
• Ability to interconnect technology pedagogy and
  content

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_at_School NT Change

• Stage 1
• Information
• expectations
• (1 -2)
• Stage 2
• Emotional Support
• (2-4)
• Stage 3
• Guidance and
• Direction
• Vision -gt Change
• (5 -6)

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_at_School NT Content, Pedagogy and Technology

• Teaching and Learning is an ill-structured and
  complex domain
• The classroom is a highly complex and dynamic
  environment
• Context is everything
• Content, Pedagogy and Technology should not be
  separated
• Teacher and Student generated knowledge

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_at_School NT Technologies

• Asynchronous (LMS Moodle Web
  2.0)Connectivist
• Benefit
• 24/7 access
• Content focussed.
• Sequence focussed.
• Increases the students capacity to process
  information.
• Extended time to research for answers to solve a
  problem.
• Guidance scaffold.
• Limitation
• Students can feel isolated.
• Students not part of a learning community.

• Synchronous (Conferencing Adobe
  Connect)Constructivist
• Benefit
• Discussion increases psychological
  arousal/stimulation.
• Seeing and hearing increases motivation.
• Limitation
• Learners respond quickly to avoid time waste.
• Teacher can dominate.
• Focus on quantity rather than quality.

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_at_School NT Integration
Connect all students Cognitive Personal
Participation Engage students via digital
literacies.