The Shireland Learning Gateway

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The Shireland Learning Gateway

• Sir Mark Grundy
• Kirsty Tonks
• Jon Nowicki

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Our Context Shireland/George Salter

• The college has approximately 1110 11-19 students
  (70 Bilingual)
• Approximately 40 of our students are on the SEN
  register and are eligible for free school meals

• 15 of our students are from families seeking
  asylum - 51 languages spoken at home
• DfES/Becta ICT Test Bed School
• GCSE 5A - C grades up to 64 from 24
• We serve 3 of the most deprived wards in the
  country
• Sixth Form from 2002 (0 to 340 by 2007)
• One of the highest value adding Specialist
• Schools in country
• Executive management of George Salter High School
  since June 2003 and Ryders Green Primary School
  since January 2007
• George Salter was the 3rd Most Improved School in
  the country in 2006 (over the last 3 years)
• Collegiate Academies from September 2006

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Benefits for staff, students and families of the
Shireland Learning Gateway?

• Personalised Learning
• Personalised feedback
• Personalised communication
• Communities development
• Just-in-time delivery
• Anywhere, anytime delivery
• Improvement strategy

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Learning Environments
At the heart of personalisation is the
understanding that learning environments comprise
the totality of factors with which the learners
interact, including people, spaces and resources.
It is an ecology of learning in which both the
learner and their environment respond flexibly to
constant change in interaction with each other.
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Our Gateway
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Staff Portal
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Department Sites
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School Improvement Plan
Real-time integration of key data
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Appropriate learning environments To have
access to different teaching and learning
approaches and resources that meet my needs. To
have access to people who are able to extend and
develop my understanding in my chosen areas. To
have access to learning environments and
resources that enable me to develop my
understanding and experience in authentic and
appropriate contexts.
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Student Portal

• 1,000,000 hits per term
• A key behaviour management tool
• Message delivery system

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Engaging Learners
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Family Portal

• 10 to 15,000 hits per month
• Accessed at Mosques, Gurdwaras, Libraries

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Class Sites - Primary
Work Storage Class Produced and
Homework Games/Puzzles linked to Class Work
Topics Information/Calendar/News/Discussions/Surv
eys Picture Libraries at work/events Subject
Areas/Links to pertinent websites Saves time and
reduces staff workload Better communication Window
s and walls
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Transition

• 8 13 Curriculum Project at George Salter and
  Ryders Green
• Transition Model Shireland and Partner
  Primaries

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Inter- Establishment Collaborations Current
Developments
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Collaboration - KeyWay
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Primary Languages Collaborating and Sharing
Resources between Staff
Interactive Modules and Class Server Assignments
Age

• Native speaker support
• Perfect for whiteboards
• Great for individual PC use
• French, German, Spanish

Clothes
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Primary position
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Smart Phones/UMPCs/Wireless Laptops
We have trialled our Gateway through the SPV we
have developed some Revision materials for
delivery to smart phones
The Ultra Mobile PCs which we are using in
Humanities are changing the dynamics for our
learners
They are not as intrusive as other devices, they
encourage discussion and group work
We have recently started to develop learning
units which we are specifically developing for
use on wireless laptops
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Collaboration
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Job Tracker
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The next steps for the Shireland Learning Gateway

• Strategic Partnership with LP - one of the
  biggest Gateway hosting in the UK
• Partnership with the SSAT to support identified
  RATL schools
• Development of LA structures and utilities

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LP Shireland Partnership

• Learner Potential
• Learning Platform Learning Places Lots of
  Passion

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The future for the Shireland Learning Gateway

• Wikis Blogs
• Self selection of on-line activities
• Social Networking Mysite
• Group Tasks
• More Mobile devices
• Inbuilt voice and video
• All due to Microsoft integration of core
  products with Sharepoint 2007 and Sharepoint
  Learning Kit allowing us to carry on developing
  our Gateway

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What are the advantages of the Learning Gateway
as our Platform?

• Only system that met all of our requirements
• Industrial strength
• Technology familiar to college community
• Automarkable online activities
• Collaboration and sharing resources
• Built-in surveys and discussion forums
• Locally managed and customisable
• Whole course content
• Competitive games
• Graphical presentation of achievements
• Targeted information for staff
• Individual Learning Plan

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On line Homework Resources
Literacy Skills
Science
Science
Maths
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Assessment
The move from an assessment-driven, to a
learner-driven system would require a shift in
focus from certification by others on the
learner, to assessment for learning and self
improvement.
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Home Tutoring
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Alternative Curriculum Resources
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Certificate of Business Language Competence
Entry Level Resources in Five Languages for
Business French, German, Spanish, Japanese,
Mandarin
Five Languages

• Native speaker support
• Navigation based on syllabus
• Individual or whiteboard use

Easy Navigation
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ASDAN
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Achievement Tracker
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E-portfolios
E-portfolios could allow young people to keep a
full and accurate record of their progression,
building up a rich CV that brings in all aspects
of their life. This could be viewed anytime,
anywhere and given feedback in real time.
E-portfolios have great potential to allow
students to showcase, store and access their
work. They could be used at a job interview to
allow a potential employer to survey a students
work and record of achievement.
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Individual Learning Plan
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Collegiate Academy Developments

• ECM Audit
• Enterprise Capability Resources
• ILP/e-portfolio/Performance Management
• SEF Support
• RSA Opening Minds Resources
• Supporting schools in Formal Categories
• A regional role for Learning Platform embedding
  and training a new style of CLC?

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If you would like to know more about what we are
doing
WWW.SHIRELANDLEARNING.CO.UK