Integrating Classroom Management, Curriculum Development and Electronic Portfolios Learning Platforms & On-line Learning Communities Karen Moffat South Island School (Hong Kong) Justin Hardman Hong Kong International School Part 1/2

What is It a flexible and dynamic electronic learning environment exists to optimize every student's learning and to collaboratively and continuously improve the quality of the educational program myDragonNet is a system that ties together and coherently organizes in educationally meaningful ways the many disparate technologies that the school acquires ?

Experimental Collaborative Responsive to changing needs and technology Transformative of teacher and student work practices Focus on simplicity How did develop? Development Model: Organic, informed by teacher and student input Pushes us to think in new ways

Experimental

Collaborative

Responsive to changing needs and technology

Transformative of teacher and student work practices

Focus on simplicity

Pushes us to think in new ways

Kids Today: Are Content Creators

Kids Today: Are archiving their lives

Kids today: Think of themselves as having an audience

Kids Today: Are not afraid to live their lives in public

Kids today: Are Tougher than you are

Kids today: Are connected globally

Learning Platform Digital Whiteboards Computer Labs Student Emails Accounts Course Management Systems Class Web Pages youTube Google Edu Apps mySpace Blogs RSS Social Bookmarking Wiki Facebook MMPORPG iPods Mobile Phones Portable Game Devices PDA 1:1 Laptops Personal Digital Workspace Word Processing “ Scheduling” Report Cards Textbooks Document Management Curriculum Mgmt System

What is a Learning Platform? A learning platform is an organizing framework that links a range of different technologies and processes to support and facilitate learning

What is the impact of a learning platform? Better use of teacher time Greater capacity to share and showcase achievement Facilitates communication and connections

Better use of teacher time

Greater capacity to share and showcase achievement

Facilitates communication and connections

Links with other on-line communities Real world global connections Capture s knowledge of the organization Fosters a culture of openness and collaboration What is the impact of a learning platform?

Links with other on-line communities

Real world global connections

Capture s knowledge of the organization

Fosters a culture of openness and collaboration

Enables anytime, anywhere learning Supports assessment for learning Cultivate s 21 st century learning skills What is the impact of a learning platform?

Enables anytime, anywhere learning

Supports assessment for learning

Cultivate s 21 st century learning skills

… which puts students in control of their learning. Learning platforms provide for personalization…

The dimensions of personalization Prepackaged differentiation, provided by institution and determined by user category Enables learner to make choices and engage with the institutional provision Learner led personalization of context, which supports content creation and collaboration