Here are potential responses to your questions: Teachers' experience: The Ultranet allows easy access to student profiles and work samples. Teachers can efficiently plan lessons, assign tasks, provide feedback and monitor progress. Communication with parents is streamlined. Students' experience: Students have a personalized learning space. They can access lessons and submit work from anywhere via the web. Peer collaboration is supported. Progress is visible. Parents' experience: Parents get a window into their child's learning via the learner profile and work samples. Two-way communication with teachers is simple. Student progress and feedback is transparent. An irresistible use case: A virtual field trip - students in different schools collaborate in real-time to "

1. Ultranet Learning Tasks and
Learner Profile

2. What’s the BIG Idea?
The Ultranet connects people,
places, spaces and ideas.
It is an online student centred
learning environment that supports
high-quality learning and teaching,
connects students and parents and
enables efficient knowledge transfer.
It enables a rich knowledge
framework for schools, making
classrooms without walls possible

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The Ultranet will deliver….

4. Education Workflow

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Product Workflow

6. EducationWorkflow
Product Workflow Using the Ultranet, Planning can include:
• Organising your Learning Tasks in a way that
suits you or your school
• Create a variety of Learning Tasks for your
students
• Assign a Standard to each Learning Task

7. EducationWorkflow
Product Workflow Using the Ultranet, Planning can include:
Teaching
• Organising your resourcesTasks Spaces that
Using Release 1 Learning and in a way
• suits you or youraccess to web-based content
Providing direct school
• Create a variety of Learning Tasks for your
Providing self-paced learning opportunities
• students individualised curriculum
Providing
• Assign a Standard to each Learning Task
STUDENT VIEW
TEACHER

8. EducationWorkflow
Product Workflow Using the Ultranet, Teaching cancan include:
Assessment include:
• Using Release 1 resources and Spaces
Dynamic Reporting
• ProvidingFeedback (Observations) content
Dynamic direct access to web-based
• Providing self-pacedvisual data
• Student Profile learning opportunities
• Providing individualised curriculum
STUDENT VIEW
TEACHER
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9. EducationWorkflow
Product Workflow Using the Ultranet, Student Data look like:
Using the Ultranet, Assessment can include:
• ManuallyReportingdata:
• Dynamic entered
• Confirmation of Standard achievement
• Dynamic Feedback (Observations)
• Observations (comments)
• Coming soon:
• Individual visual
• Student Profiletasks data
• Overall progress
• Dynamic data:
• Task progress feeds
• Standard demonstration progress feeds
• Individual Task Observation feeds
TEACHER VIEW STUDENT VIEW

10. Privacy (who sees what?)
IMPORTANT: This should be a key component of
your communication with staff
Key areas of interest
DYNAMIC SYSTEMS
• Creation of Learning Tasks in a class means instant access by students and
parents (by default)
• Learning Tasks and Observations won’t go through a peer monitoring system
to check for errors (by default)
PARENT AND STUDENT COLLABORATION IN THE REPORTING SYSTEM
• Parents have access to tasks and observations created by teachers for their
child (by default)
• Parents and students can comment on teacher observations (by default)

12. QUESTIONS?
1. CONNECT
How are the ideas and information connected to what you
already know?
2.EXTEND
What new ideas did you get that extend your thinking in new
directions?
3. CHALLENGE
What is still challenging or confusing for you?

13. What can PARENTS see?
Learner Profile

14. Teacher, Parent, Student:
Learner Profile for a student (Relationship View)
Click breadcrumbs to
return to a previous page
Relationship
View Teacher, student
Teacher only or parent can
can click on a click on a
class to drill teacher for more
down information
Parent uses this
button to access
their child’s
eXpress space

15. Teacher, Parent, Student:
Learner Profile for a student (Profile View)
Click the dropdown
arrow in the top-right
of each box to drill
down to more detail
Profile
View
Click a class in the list to
go directly to the profile
view for that class
Click the Progress
Data will be progressively button to see detailed
built up over time. reports
This view is available to teachers,
students and parents

17. What can PARENTS see?
Learning Tasks (of their child)

18. Parent: View child’s work on a Learning Item (Journal)
View teacher’s
instructions to
students
View journal
entries submitted
by child and by
the teacher

19. Parent: View teacher’s feedback on a Learning Item
View Comments and
Grades or Marks
recorded by the teacher
for this item.
View
Demonstrations
recorded by the
teacher for this item.
To add an
Observation
click the New
button

20. Parent: add Observation about Learning Item

21. Parent: Review child’s Confirmations, Demonstrations and Opportunities
Select
child
Click to view
Demonstrations and
Opportunities
Click to view
detail of
Confirmation

22. Parent: view detail of Confirmations

23. Parent: view Demonstrations and Opportunities
Select a Learning
Item and click Go
A Demonstration has been
recorded for this Learning
Item

24. Parent: view detail of Confirmations

25. Parent: Add general Observation about child

27. Education Workflow
How the Ultranet
supports quality
learning and teaching

28. Student Data
• Teachers can readily
access rich, up-to-date
information about their
students…
• Where are my Ultranet functionality?
students up to
with their
learning?

29. Plan
• Teachers can readily collaborate
with their colleagues and share
their curriculum planning.
• Data can be used to plan and
deliver a more personalised
curriculum
What and • Digital learning resources can
how do I be incorporated.
want my • Collaborative learning can be
students to facilitated through web 2.0
learn? tools
Ultranet functionality?

30. Teach
• Learning tasks are delivered
online or offline and are
facilitated by the teacher
• The teacher monitors student
• How do I learning
actively
support and • Ultranet functionality?
monitor my
student’s
learning?

31. Assess
• Teachers can assess and
record student progress
online.
• Students capture evidence of
their learning
What evidence
of learning • Ultranet functionality?
have my
students
demonstrated?

32. Teaching and Learning Cycle

35. e5
DETERMINES READINESS FOR LEARNING
What will the teacher say and do?
Engage SAY DO
 Assesses prior knowledge
 What did we learn yesterday?  Differentiated tasks / groupings
 Identifies a purpose for  Students involved in pre lesson
 What do we know about…?
learning discussion about what they
 What strategies did you use?
 Connects to students’ lives  Where do we use this in know.
everyday life?  Encourage students to share
 What language/words might we strategies previously used or
use/hear? that may be used.
 How might you learn/do it?  Encourage/ prompt confident
reflections by students.
 Stipulate lesson focus.
 Explicitly teach correct
vocabulary. Brainstorm and
discuss.
 Establish a clear focus for
learning and share with
students.
 Help students make
connections to the real world.

36. e5
FACILITATE SUBSTANTIVE CONVERSATION
What will the teacher say and do?
Elaborate SAY
 Promotes thinking DO
 Maintains the flow of
conversation  What do you think….?  The teacher will question
 Builds on participants  How do you know…..? others to build on and
ideas  Can anyone add evaluate student
information… responses.
 How can we……?  The teacher will provide
 Could you tell me more a range of entry points
…. for students to work at
 Give me an own level.
example…….  The teacher will provide
challenging tasks.
 The teacher will promote
teacher /student and
student/student
conversation.

37. e5
CULTIVATES HIGHER ORDER THINKING
What will the teacher say and do?
Elaborate SAY
 Structures learning tasks DO
 Extends learning to new
contexts  How can we use these  The teacher will provide an
 Provides feedback understandings in another activity /activities to promote
 Adjusts instruction situation? evaluation, analyising and
 What if….? synthesizing.
 If we know this what does  The teacher will encourage
that mean when applied prediction/justification of
to……? strategies.
 Why did you do that?  The teacher facilitates
students to apply
understandings to make
generalisation. (see rules and
patterns.
 The teacher will present
problem solving tasks to
students.

38. QUESTIONS?
Can you describe the user experience of the Ultranet
(from the Teachers', Students', Parents' point of views)
Can you describe a use-case for the Ultranet which makes
it utterly irresistible & seductive?
What would you invent to extend, or improve the
Ultranet? (It needn't be technology.)