Raising e-capability: Roadmaps and signposts



Karen Melhuish Spencer @virtuallykaren     #kidzatthecentre
No hea au?


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           decompressor
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What’s coming up?
• What’s important?
• e-Learning Planning
  Framework: the what,
  the how, the why
• Where might you
  start?


                               Image: nathangibbs
Palm pilots and certificates




    What is the issue for this school?   Image by crdotx
Future-focused learning




               “wicked problems...
    highly complex, uncertain, and value-laden”
                                           Source: Frame and Brown (2008, p. 226).;
                                                    image from gapingvoid.com
What’s important?
Thriving in a digital world

   What is the role of...
   • leaders?
   • teachers?
   • professional learning?
   • technologies and
   infrastructure?
   • whānau and community?
                       YouTube source: Rethinking Learning: The 21st Century Learner | MacArthur Foundation
How will we get our
  learners ready?




How is your school preparing learners’ for a
             digitised future?
What is the e-Learning
Planning Framework?




    www.elearning.tki.org
A shared, national
         roadmap
➡ where are we?
➡ where might go
next?
➡ how might we
get there?
                          Source: HealingMinds.co.uk
Emerging   Engaging Text
                      Extending   Empowering
✓finding out
 ✓planning
✓investigating


 ✓teacher-
  directed
✓ICT as add-on

                 Image: DavidDMuir
✓trialing
  ✓establishing

✓increased focus
  on learning
   ✓growing
awareness and use


                    Image: Christy Tvarok Green
✓aligned &
    strategic
   ✓integrated
✓focus on learning
 ✓authentic use
  ✓shared roles
     ✓whole
   community
                     Image: Mark Pinder for the Guardian
✓sustained
  ✓ubiquitous
    ✓24/7
 ✓higher-order
✓community driven
 ✓networked &
     blended
                    Image: chesbayprogram
What if ....schools do not strategically integrate
               digital technologies?
                                                     Source: alubavin
what’s the point?
                      Opportunity to
Access                  participate
nclusion
Equity                New pathways
                             to new
                          knowledge
Engagement
 hrough prior
knowledge                      Civic
                         engagement

                               Source: wakingphotolife
the promise of ultra-fast broadband....


   VISION: Connected, capable, lifelong learners

Personalised learning: e-portfolios, collaboration,
                   flexibility

  Appropriate choice for teaching and learning

Services: LMS, emails, video conferencing, storage...

             Speed...reliability....volume

    Fibre to the gate...wireless...switches..routers
it takes a village...
          Sustained,              Blended, inquiry-
           involved                   focused
         leadership                professional
                                    community
 Equitable, open
access to reliable                     Authentic, higher-
      ICTs                                   order,
                                         collaborative
              Culturally responsive,       learning
                   connected
               community focus
How are schools using
               it?
 “... (the ELPF)rather than assumptions.
 real picture    meant that the senior team could get the
 It is a good guiding document so schools know where
 to go next rather than guessing - or leaving the
 harder partsfor and only example.... it provides a
 resourcing,   out                  focusing on say
                    framework for support”




www.vln.school.nz
A possible way forward




 not on the plate - it is
       the plate  Source:
                  Self review tool for teachers [http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/National-Standards/Self-review-tools/Teachers].
what could the school
     have done?




                        Image by crdotx
e-Learning reviews...
•    Integrate with the
    whole school
    strategic plan
• Involve the school
    community
• Are deliberately
    lead
• Draw on evidence
• Are iterative                Image by jemsweb
Content on TKI & community in the VLN
How might you use it?

 One action that you
 will take away from
    here today.....



www.elearning.tki.org.
        nz
Using Storybird to improve literacy
Explore a dimension
                                    Trial
Find out
                                   Begin to
Tech focus                         focus on
                                    learning


                                   Sustain
Integrate
                               Ubiquitous
 Aligned to
                                   &
   needs
                               networked
WHAT we learn




                                   HOW we learn
The properties of ICTs
                         context

Keynote: Building e-Capability

  • 1.
    Raising e-capability: Roadmapsand signposts Karen Melhuish Spencer @virtuallykaren #kidzatthecentre
  • 2.
    No hea au? QuickTime™ and a decompressor are needed to see this picture.
  • 3.
    What’s coming up? •What’s important? • e-Learning Planning Framework: the what, the how, the why • Where might you start? Image: nathangibbs
  • 4.
    Palm pilots andcertificates What is the issue for this school? Image by crdotx
  • 5.
    Future-focused learning “wicked problems... highly complex, uncertain, and value-laden” Source: Frame and Brown (2008, p. 226).; image from gapingvoid.com
  • 6.
  • 7.
    Thriving in adigital world What is the role of... • leaders? • teachers? • professional learning? • technologies and infrastructure? • whānau and community? YouTube source: Rethinking Learning: The 21st Century Learner | MacArthur Foundation
  • 8.
    How will weget our learners ready? How is your school preparing learners’ for a digitised future?
  • 9.
    What is thee-Learning Planning Framework? www.elearning.tki.org
  • 10.
    A shared, national roadmap ➡ where are we? ➡ where might go next? ➡ how might we get there? Source: HealingMinds.co.uk
  • 11.
    Emerging Engaging Text Extending Empowering
  • 12.
    ✓finding out ✓planning ✓investigating ✓teacher- directed ✓ICT as add-on Image: DavidDMuir
  • 13.
    ✓trialing ✓establishing ✓increasedfocus on learning ✓growing awareness and use Image: Christy Tvarok Green
  • 14.
    ✓aligned & strategic ✓integrated ✓focus on learning ✓authentic use ✓shared roles ✓whole community Image: Mark Pinder for the Guardian
  • 15.
    ✓sustained ✓ubiquitous ✓24/7 ✓higher-order ✓community driven ✓networked & blended Image: chesbayprogram
  • 16.
    What if ....schoolsdo not strategically integrate digital technologies? Source: alubavin
  • 17.
    what’s the point? Opportunity to Access participate nclusion Equity New pathways to new knowledge Engagement hrough prior knowledge Civic engagement Source: wakingphotolife
  • 18.
    the promise ofultra-fast broadband.... VISION: Connected, capable, lifelong learners Personalised learning: e-portfolios, collaboration, flexibility Appropriate choice for teaching and learning Services: LMS, emails, video conferencing, storage... Speed...reliability....volume Fibre to the gate...wireless...switches..routers
  • 19.
    it takes avillage... Sustained, Blended, inquiry- involved focused leadership professional community Equitable, open access to reliable Authentic, higher- ICTs order, collaborative Culturally responsive, learning connected community focus
  • 20.
    How are schoolsusing it? “... (the ELPF)rather than assumptions. real picture meant that the senior team could get the It is a good guiding document so schools know where to go next rather than guessing - or leaving the harder partsfor and only example.... it provides a resourcing, out focusing on say framework for support” www.vln.school.nz
  • 21.
    A possible wayforward not on the plate - it is the plate Source: Self review tool for teachers [http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/National-Standards/Self-review-tools/Teachers].
  • 22.
    what could theschool have done? Image by crdotx
  • 23.
    e-Learning reviews... • Integrate with the whole school strategic plan • Involve the school community • Are deliberately lead • Draw on evidence • Are iterative Image by jemsweb
  • 24.
    Content on TKI& community in the VLN
  • 25.
    How might youuse it? One action that you will take away from here today..... www.elearning.tki.org. nz
  • 28.
    Using Storybird toimprove literacy
  • 29.
    Explore a dimension Trial Find out Begin to Tech focus focus on learning Sustain Integrate Ubiquitous Aligned to & needs networked
  • 30.
    WHAT we learn HOW we learn The properties of ICTs context

Editor's Notes

  • #2 2.00
  • #3 2.10
  • #4 2.10
  • #5 2.15 My story from A School to illustrate that a focus on skills, and on buying infrastructure doesn’t sustain. What was missing?... 5 teams > 5 flag with the 5 headings on them
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  • #7 2.25 In the middle of a page > Think of a student who has just started - what do we want for them? - jot down 5 words - and now what does this look like in a digital world?
  • #8 2.35 and now what does this look like in a digital world? .....digital citizenship..... e-mature school. Listen for your team’s focus
  • #9 2.45 What are you doing at the moment - exchange a story.
  • #10 2.50 eLPF
  • #12 3.00
  • #17 2.55 discussion
  • #18 Why are we trying to lift e-capability for our students? Link to vision? And if we don’t? image http://www.flickr.com/photos/missmoon/8865857/
  • #20 2.40
  • #21 3.10 Story of...?
  • #23 2.05 My story from Marsden to illustrate that a focus on skills, and on buying infrastructure doesn’t sustain. Come back to this story at the end...
  • #26 3.25 a takeaway
  • #30 Circle on a print out of the dimensions and explain why - for them or my school?