E Learning Landscape

Heads up on the eLearning Landscape Rachel Roberts [email_address]

“ eLearning has the potential to transform the way we learn. It’s about exploiting technologies and using ICT effectively across the curriculum to connect schools and communities and to support evidence-based decision making and practices in schools.”

Maharey, 2006

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ICT Strategic Framework for Education - MOE Focus Work underway Connectivity: Improving access

Providing access to online resources across agencies (Education Sector Authentication and Authorisation (ESAA))

Scoping what would be needed for a National Education Network to support regional initiatives

Content: Sharing Resources

Making media-rich learning resources available online:

The Hive project

Learning Federation objects

Education Sector Federated Search

Developing a digital archive of resources for teaching, learning, research and administration (National Digital Heritage Archive).

Confidence & Capability: Increasing information literacy skills and competencies

ICT Professional Development Clusters

The Digital Technologies Framework (Year 11-13)

Multi Literacies and key competencies working group

Preparing our children for the 21 st Century

Has become a Global Imperative “Catching the Knowledge Wave” Jane Gilbert “The World is Flat” Thomas Friedman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_is_Flat Shift Happens

Social imaginary refers to the “phenomenon that in every age people adopt a commonsense understanding of the way the world is, and therefore should be, always taken for granted and so treated as unquestionable. “ Part of this is an educational imaginary – a conception of how we should educate our young” (Hargreaves, 2006, p45). In the past social imaginaries have changed slowly, but we are living in a period where they are now rapidly changing. Hargreaves, D. (2006). Personalising Learning 6. The final gateway: school design and organisation . London: Specialist Schools and Academies Trust. 19 th century educational imaginary 21 st century educational imaginary Place of school in the wider society.