The document summarizes MBBC's digital learning program which introduces BYOD (bring your own device) for students. It will be implemented in stages between 2014-2018, starting with Year 4 students. The program aims to prepare students for 21st century skills by teaching with and through technology across the curriculum. Professional development for teachers and a digital citizenship program will support the initiative.

1. MBBC Digital Learning Program
Parent Information and Support Evening

2. Program for tonight
• Introductions
• What we’re doing and why
• How it looks in a class
• Devices
• Where to from here
• Panel – Q & A

3. A digital life
• To put technological change into the perspective ….. Look at the
launch date of these technologies
• 1998Google
• 2001Wikipedia
• 2001 iPod
• 2003 MySpace
• 2003 3G mobile phones
• 2004 Facebook
• 2005YouTube
• Our students have only ever known a world with Google,Wikipedia,
Myspace/Facebook, and mobile phones with high speed Internet
Year 6s born
around this time
Year 3s born
around this time

4. Why eLearning?
• Melbourne Declaration
Goal 1: Australian schooling promotes equity and excellence
Goal 2: All young Australians become:
– successful learners
– confident and creative individuals
– active and informed citizens
• UNESCO - systemic economic growth is the key to poverty reduction and
increasing prosperity - ICT are engines for growth and tools for empowerment
with profound results.
• MBBC/MBC Strategic Plan 2014-2018 ….. “Provide learning experiences that
reflect contemporary practices in educational research that enable the creation of a
dynamic and innovative 21st Century learning environment.”

5. 21st Century Employment
 Imaginative / creative
 Innovative / problem-solving
 Speculative
 Flexible
 Tolerant
 Empathetic
 Critical in their thinking
 Literate & numerate
 Computer literate
 Conciliatory
 Able to negotiate
 Independent
 Team-oriented
 Diagnostic / research savvy
 Able to project
consequences
 Able to project into the
feelings of others
C21st Australian employers demand that our graduates
be:

8. 20th century focused education 21st century focused education
Time-based Outcome-based
Focus: memorization of discrete facts Focus: what students Know, Can Do and Are
Like after all the details are forgotten
Learners work in isolation – classroom within
4 walls
Learners work collaboratively with classmates
and others around the world – the Global
Classroom
Teacher-centred: teacher is centre of
attention and provider of information/passive
Student-centred: teacher is facilitator/coach.
Active
Lower Order Thinking Higher Order Thinking
Literacy is the 3 R’s – reading, writing and
math
Multiple literacies of the 21st century – aligned
to living and working in a globalized new
millennium.
Factory model, based upon the needs of
employers for the Industrial Age of the 19th
century. Scientific management.
Based upon the needs of employers in the
Digital Age of the 21st Century.
Curriculum/School is irrelevant and
meaningless to the students.
Curriculum is connected to students’ interests,
experiences, talents and the real world.

9. Teaching about technology
Teaching with technology
Teaching through technology
ICT
ICT
ICT
Curriculum
Curriculum
Curriculum
“The challenge lies in
shifting from teaching
and learning about ICT
to teaching and
learning with and
through ICT.”

10. Background
• Current IT provision
• Fibre link
• Discussion paper to Principal and Board - research
• Appointment of eLearning Co-ordinator
• BoardWorking Party
• Wireless upgrade, internet bandwidth, PD

11. MBBC DIGITAL LEARNING PROGRAM
PRIMARY
P – 3 4 - 6
MIDDLE
7 - 9
SENIOR
10 - 12
Digital Citizenship Program
Classroom
Devices BYO iPad BYO Laptop BYO Device
Professional Development Program
E Learning Co-ordinator & Committee
Primary IT Lab Specialist Labs, Laptop pods

12. Why BYOD?
• Learning anytime, anywhere without schedule or access restrictions
• Parent-financed, allowing schools to devote much-needed funding to other programs or
technologies
• Devices are commonly more up- to-date with newer features
• Development of time management skills for students
• Care of the devices – Students learning to take responsibility
• Efficiency- Personalized devices…(1 device for school & home)
• Allows for immediate application in the classroom
• Replicates a technology-rich environment already common in higher education and business
• Flexibility—support different learners with different needs

13. Where to from here
• The website Digital Learning Hub
http://mbbc.qld.edu.au/curriculum/digital-
learning/
• Further Information and Support evenings
• Day 0 forYear 4 boys
• Follow up letter with details and specifications

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A staged introduction