Extending Opportunities Using ICT Primary

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Extending Opportunities Using ICT - Primary
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DCSF Milestones for Learning Platforms

• 2008 Personal Online Learning Space
• internet-based secure, anytime, anywhere
• upload/download of files individual online
  working space

• 2010 Comprehensive Learning Platform
• learner support
• learner tools, publishing tools e.g. blogs etc
• VLE (Virtual Learning Environment)
• digital curriculum management
• management tracking of learner activity
• authoring, tagging, searching,
  packaging/bundling, sequencing, exporting
• Assessment, input within the VLE returned to your
  MIS e.g. SIMS

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Personalised Learning Space

• Supporting transition
• E portfolios
• Celebrating achievement
• Supporting learning journeys
• Providing an effective link with Learning
  Platforms

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Learning Platforms

• Learning platform is a generic term to describe
  a broad range of ICT systems used to deliver and
  support learning including
• communication and collaboration tools, eg
  webmail, shared calendars
• secure individual online working space
• tools to enable teachers to manage and tailor
  content to user needs
• pupil tracking
• anytime, anyplace access

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A Learning Platform brings together
Communities
Collaboration
User Directory
MIS (e.g. SIMS)
VLE digital curriculum management system
Learning Resources searchable tagged
E-Portfolios
Personalised Space
anytime, anywhere!
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Learning might look like this
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Five Components of Personalised Learning

• The use of ICT permeates all components as a way
  of
• enhancing creativity
• extending learning opportunities
• sustaining the varied and challenging pace of
  learning

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Supporting Personalisation
Assessment for Learning
Learning and Teaching
Curriculum Enrichment and Choice
Organising the School for Personalised Learning
Beyond the Classroom
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Supporting Personalisation

• Assessment for Learning
• Peer evaluation
• Online assessments
• Pupils sharing their understanding with a wider
  audience
• Use of their personalised workspace to manage
  their work and show their learning journey to
  others
• pupil activity (and assessment) tracking

Assessment for Learning
Learning and Teaching
Curriculum Enrichment and Choice
Organising the School for Personalised Learning
Beyond the Classroom
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Supporting Personalisation

• Learning and Teaching
• lesson and curriculum planning online
• linking planning content to national curriculum
  and objectives
• access, edit and create personal or commercial
  content
• support for curriculum projects

Assessment for Learning
Learning and Teaching
Curriculum Enrichment and Choice
Organising the School for Personalised Learning
Beyond the Classroom
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Supporting Personalisation

• Curriculum Enrichment and Choice
• guided or self-study learning options for pupils
• access to online tools to support their learning
• access to extended learning opportunities
• access to content which matches learning styles

Assessment for Learning
Learning and Teaching
Curriculum Enrichment and Choice
Organising the School for Personalised Learning
Beyond the Classroom
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Supporting Personalisation
Assessment for Learning

• Organising the school
• share resources and management information
• communication pupils, parents, staff and
  stakeholders
• curriculum and management information located in
  one place and accessible online

Learning and Teaching
Curriculum Enrichment and Choice
Organising the School for Personalised Learning
Beyond the Classroom
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Supporting Personalisation

• Beyond the school
• managing extended opportunities for pupils beyond
  the school
• opportunities to continue learning activities
  beyond the school day
• parental involvement in pupils learning

Assessment for Learning
Learning and Teaching
Curriculum Enrichment and Choice
Organising the School for Personalised Learning
Beyond the Classroom
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Wray Common Learning Zone
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Wray Common Learning Zone

• Introduction of the Learning Zone

• Impact on Teaching and Learning

• Problems and Resolutions

• The Future

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Introduction of the Learning Zone
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Introduction of the Learning Zone
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Introduction of the Learning Zone
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Impact on Childrens Learning

• Web 2.0 extension, safe entry to internet

• Home/school (audit 96 access in theory)

• Homework, topics/resources, showcase, news

• New ways of using it to extend learning
• forums, choir/production, house system/council

• Facts/figures

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Impact on Childrens Learning
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Impact on Teaching

• Safe route to internet

• Use resources on Learning Zone in class

• Area for homework/spellings

• Another outcome/audience for finished work

• Routine

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Problems and Resolutions

• Setting up

• Training for staff

• Creation of content and maintenance

• Policing and monitoring

• Technical issues

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The Future
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The Future
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The Future
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Wray Common Learning Zone

• Introduction of the Learning Zone

• Impact on Teaching and Learning

• Problems and Resolutions

• The Future

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Learning Platforms School Readiness

• How will you ensure all stakeholders are engaged
  in this change?
• Will this development demand a major or minor
  change in practice?
• How might you prepare your school and develop
  capacity to take on this change?
• What are the major implications in implementing
  this change?
• How effectively are ICT systems currently used to
  support learning and teaching?

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The school as an iceberg

• Learning platform
• pupilcomputer ratio
• broadband policies
• learning/teaching focus
• sharing ideas

• infrastructure
• resources
• ICT in SoWs
• reflective culture
• CPD based on learning outcomes
• sharing resources

empowering teachersenabling pupils
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Planning strategically

• New ways of thinking
• New ways of doing
• Access to data about learning
• Involving everyone
• New skills
• CPD
• Resources

• Where are we now where do we need to be
• School development planning
• Information management
• Accessibility

• Connectivity
• Infrastructure
• Software
• Information management

Change Management
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Managing Change
Confusion
Anxiety
Slow Change
Frustration
False Starts
Uncertainty
Jacqueline S. Thousand Richard A. Villa
Managing Complex Change 2001 Adapted by M Blows
(2006)
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Vision
Vision
Action Plans

• Focussed on school development aims, not hardware
  or software
• Written in educational terms and outcomes
• Supported with a clear strategy for achieving the
  vision (3 5 year plan?)
• Action planning to move it forward

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People
Skills
Incentives

• Training
• New skills
• Map to CPD and personal successes
• Celebrate and your share experiences
• How will this benefit me?

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Big Bang or Phased Roll Out
Phased Roll Out
or

• A clear plan, shared with all
• Year group based rollout
• Effective CPD
• Phased approach
• Pilot ICT strong teams
• Cycle of evaluation

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Implementation Strategies
Managing internal information focus curriculum
planning, resources, links etc
Curriculum project focus resources, links,
activities, forums
Extending opportunities beyond the school
focus Development of independent activities which
link with school based lessons and objectives
Communication with stakeholder focus information,
celebration, support for parental involvement and
dialogue
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Keys to success

• Expectations from SLT
• Supporting innovation and creative approaches
• Involvement and responding to learners
• A clear vision as to what you want learning to be
  like in your school
• Effective and sustained training for staff
• Some quick wins
• Sharing of good practice

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Learning Platform Functionality
Learning Platform Functionality 1. Institutional
readiness 2. Content Management 3. Communication
and collaboration 4. Administration 5. Learner
Information 6. ICT Resources
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