2. How do we deliver quality learning
outcomes for your child?
Melbourne Declaration
on Educational Goals for
Young Australians
Ministerial Council on Education, Employment,
Training and Youth Affairs
As a Catholic Christian
community we educate for all
to live the gospel of Jesus Christ
as successful, creative and
confident, active and informed
learners empowered to shape
and enrich our world.
6. What is a Learning
Management System?
A classroom
resource to support
learning and
teaching
A digital learning
and teaching
environment that
provides access to
content and
collaboration
spaces
Easy-to-use
Safe
Innovative
7. What benefits and opportunities
does LIFE provide?
Student access to:
e-portfolio space
personalised
curriculum
feedback tools
collaboration tools
communication
tools
co-construction of
knowledge
Teacher access to:
current curriculum
Collaborative tools
tools to help
planning for
learning
tools to support
assessment,
tracking and
reporting
10. How is Brisbane Catholic Education
supporting schools in their use of this
resource?
Curriculum Support
Professional Development
Funding Support
Product Support
Technical Support
11. Is it safe?
What about students reading other
students work?
What about handwriting?
How will teachers use LIFE to inform their
planning and help students progress?
Can students access LIFE from home?
Can parents comment on student work?
Editor's Notes
Ask the audience:What do you believe are the best educational outcomes for your child?What are the skills you would like your child to leave school with?We now have at our fingertips a world-class, quality future-focused curriculumMelbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians demandsthat that all young people in Australia should be supported to become successful learners, confident and creative individuals, and active and informed citizens.The Melbourne Declaration identifies essential skills for twenty-first century learners – in literacy, numeracy, information and communication technology (ICT), thinking, creativity, teamwork and communication. It describes individuals who can manage their own wellbeing, relate well to others, make informed decisions about their lives, become citizens who behave with ethical integrity, relate to and communicate across cultures, work for the common good and act with responsibility at local, regional and global levels.The Australian Curriculum sets out the core knowledge, understanding, skills and general capabilities important for all Australian students. It describes the learning entitlement of students as a foundation for their future learning, growth and active participation in the Australian community. It also makes clear what all young Australians should learn as they progress through schooling.----- Meeting Notes (6/05/13 22:23) -----The goal of the Melbourne Declaration is for all children to be creative, confident, active and informed learners
At the heart of the Australian Curriculum are the General Capabilities and Cross-Curriculum Priorities.These play a significant role in realising the goals set out in the Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians.Along with the curriculum content in each learning area, a focus on development of the General Capabilities and Cross-Curriculum Priorities will assist students to live and work successfully in the 21st century. The Australian Curriculum is focused on relevance, understanding, rigour and depth as well as engaging all students in authentic learning. ICT capabilities are integral to improved learning outcomes that enable young people to engage effectively with and work in an increasingly complex world.
From birth, students of the current generation inhabit and navigate a highly technological and information rich world that has experienced an information explosion, significant and rapid changes to society, as well as changed national and international economic structures.Families use ICT for learning, recreation, management, work and daily communication. The online world caters for their needs and interests, creating communities that transcend states and countries. Increasingly, most jobs require ICT-specific skills – significant numbers require high level skills.Young people increasingly live and thrive in the digital environment, comfortable with virtual, screen-to-screen and face-to-face relationships. They take for granted that they can use interactive text, audio and image technologies to observe and participate in world events in real time. Their approach to learning is influenced by their expectations of 24 hour a day, seven days a week, three hundred and sixty five days a year multiple media communications. With a mouse click they are able to instantaneously access a wide range of resources and services. Highly connected, they simultaneously do homework, talk on the phone, listen to music, surf the web and maintain conversations on line.Students demand interactivity in learning, communication, and entertainment. Multi-tasking and parallel-processing are second nature for many. They engage and work with multi-layered packages of non-linear information comprising images, sound, video, text and graphics.Mobile technologies, chat, blogs, wikis, web cams, reality television and interactive games are intrinsic to their worlds. Current technologies shape their expectations and their abilities to access, acquire, manipulate, construct, create and communicate information. Continuous learning with clear purpose and connection to the real-world is critical to developing the capabilities, dispositions and literacies required to participate in society and to deal with the complexity of issues and change.
An LMS is a resource to support learning and teaching in a contemporary online environment. The LMS being used is called LIFE. LIFE is a commercial, ‘off-the-shelf’ learning and teaching product that includes a defined set of functionalities. It currently provides an easy-to-use, safe and innovative online learning and teaching environment for teachers and students, that supports access to content and collaboration spaces via a range of online resources.
LIFE enables teacher access to current curriculum, support material and tools to facilitate planning for learning and teaching. LIFE enables teachers and students to personalise, access, collaborate and communicate in a variety of ways. LIFE also provides functionality to support student assessment and tracking, monitoring and reporting.
Will use of LIFE change the way learning outcomes are evaluated?Students will continue to be evaluated against the relevant Queensland and/or Australian Curricular. The LIFE LMS will complement the existing school curriculum by providing digital learning tools that link in with planned classroom activities. Wireless access points at schools will foster collaboration and teamwork, allowing students to search for information together and share the learning experience.What about handwriting?Handwriting will continue to have a place in the classroom as well as the use of the keyboard.How will parents continue to be informed about the use of LIFE as a resource to support learning and teaching?A school’s newsletters and websites will provide updates to the whole school community about the use of the LIFE LMS by students and teachers in and out of the classroom. Does the student require Internet access at home?There is no mandated expectation that Internet access is available at home. However your child will be able to access the LIFE LMS if there is an existing Internet provision at home.
