Learning Platforms: Strategies for Success

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Learning PlatformsStrategies for Success
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Agenda

• 21st Century Learning taking up the challenge
  Sir Mike Tomlinson
• Using ICT to facilitate change Rachel Tilden
  Walker
• Embedding change across a local authority
  John Parmiter, Project Director, We-Learn
• The learning journey for Learning Platforms
  Rachel Tilden Walker
• Looking to the future John Connell,
  Learning Futures Strategist

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21st Century Learning- taking up the challenge

• Sir Mike Tomlinson

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How can we support our 21st Century learners?

• The goal - to develop young adults with the 21st
  Century skills
• Engaged
• Independent
• Lifelong learners

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How can we support our 21st Century learners?

• The pathways
• Every Child Matters
• Personalising learning
• 14-19 reform

How can technology support this journey?
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Using ICT to facilitate change

• Rachel Tilden Walker

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The ICT target

• To provide a personalised online learning space
  for every learner that can encompass a personal
  portfolio by 2007/2008.
• Harnessing Technology

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What is a personal learning space?
find information that is useful to me
search for resources to help with my learning
publish my work and get feedback on it
work with my friends on projects for school
and fun
organise and reflect on my work and other
achievements
communicate and collaborate with my friends and
teachers
find out how I am doing and plan my next
learning steps
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Elements of a Learning Platform
Email
Forums
News
MIS
Libraries
Assessment
Wikis
Smart Card
Chat
RSS Feeds
Video Conferencing
Content
VLE
Alerts
Resource Finder
e-Portfolio
Blogs
Applications
Hardware Connectivity Authentication
Interoperability
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Making it work
Individual School
School Cluster/Partnership
Building Schools for the Future
Local Authority Pilot
Authority-wide
Regional Broadband Consortia
National Project
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Areas for debate

• Level of school autonomy
• Methods for sharing ideas and resources
• Learning from the innovators
• Supporting schools through strategic change
• Choice versus level and cost of integration
• Ensuring value for money

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A possible model
School/Partnership
Local Authority/BSF
Local Authority
RBC