Warrick Wynne, Director of Learning and Curriculum at Ripple 2010, discusses blended learning and the changing landscape of education. He notes that blended learning combines online and face-to-face instruction, with blended learning being the most effective approach. Wynne also emphasizes that good teaching remains important and that teachers need support through collaboration and professional learning to help students in this changing environment. Technology should serve pedagogy and empower student learning by allowing research, creation, communication and collaboration.

1. Ripple 2010 Surfing the wave of change Warrick Wynne Director of Learning and Curriculum (MLC) for Ripple 2010 (Chisholm e-learning Conference)

2. What is (blended) learning now? What are some schools doing? What do we want teachers to be doing? What does professional learning look like now? How can we help teachers through this change?

5. It’s not as if habits of deep reflection, thorough research and rigorous reasoning ever came naturally to people. They must be acquired in special institutions, which we call universities, and maintained with constant upkeep, which we call analysis, criticism and debate. They are not granted by propping a heavy encyclopedia on your lap, nor are they taken away by efficient access to information on the Internet. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/opinion/11Pinker.html?_r=1

6. Key concepts from the Chisholm E-learning plan Blended delivery Student feedback Digital Literacies Digital artefacts and resources

7. What is (blended) learning now?

8. Not linear Not (simply) sequential Not ‘delivered’ “New Literacies”

10. Exemplar 4 illustrates a nice balance between orderliness and control, on the one hand, and self-direction and reflection on the other. Exemplar 7 illustrates the challenges of finding a comfortable mix of maintaining control and letting students work independently at their own pace. http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/learning/yrk12focusareas/learntech/blended/index.php

11. ‘The unit called on teachers to find a balance between encouraging student autonomy and scaffolding students' experience of a new and challenging learning environment.

12. The incident marks the same kind of historic turning point in power distribution as when the music industry flipped out over Napster in the '90s, and the movie industry flipped out over BitTorrent in the early '00s. This moment feels like the same kind of apple-cart-upset, but for information control by military and political powers which, before this moment, we perceived as "in control. http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/27/xeni-on-rachel-maddo-3.html

14. Online education is more effective than face-to-face learning Online learning combined with some face-to-face learning (blended learning) is the most effective; Face-to-face learning alone is the least effective method among the three types studied.

15. A Tale of Two Technologies

16. interactive whiteboards are popular precisely because companies designed them to suit the old instructional style with which teachers are most comfortable They do little more than reinforce a teacher-centric model of learning. http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2010/06/cats-out-of-bag-more-people-are-getting.html

18. An ipad for every student = the wrong question?

19. “Every day my students bring in a computer in their pocket. It is an *appliance* that they are *confident in using* and that is their *device of choice*. The question is how do we empower the learner?” http://blog.core-ed.net/derek/2010/07/the-rise-of-mobile.html

20. It’s about the teaching (and learning) not the technology Good teaching matters (more on this later) The NEW TAXONOMY

22. Along with the LIVE and the PHYSICAL, every course should have: An email contact A website, preferably a wiki Atwitter feed A discussion forum, A back-channel ...

23. Why online education needs to get social: To attract and retain the typical college-age demographic, as well as the larger population of adult learners in search of relevant and engaging educational content, the next generation of online education must be characterized by courses that build in the social, real-time information capturing components that have made the web such a dynamic medium for sharing information and knowledge http://mashable.com/2010/08/06/online-education-social/

24. Old school instruction remains the norm. Only 13 percent of the professors surveyed said they used blogs in teaching; 12 percent had tried videoconferencing; and 13 percent gave interactive quizzes using 'clickers,' or TV-remotelike devices that let students respond and get feedback instantaneously. The one technology that most teachers use regularly — course-management systems — focuses mostly on housekeeping tasks like handing out assignments or keeping track of student grades.'“ http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/08/01/1551246/Should-Professors-Be-Required-To-Teach-With-Tech?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Slashdot/slashdot+(Slashdot)

25. and yet…

27. What’s going on out there?

31. ‘We are creating a generation that is thinking differently from every other generation before. These students are not just multi-tasking, they have better abilities to code-switch. They are constantly searching, story-telling, collaborating, developing and authenticating.’ He urged educators to disable the ‘generational firewalls’ that they had erected between them and their students and embrace a culture of collaboration, integration and self-organization. Banning social media such as ‘Facebook’s says,‘ We don’t understand your tools. We don’t trust you’.

32. Key Theme: No excuses Short term upgrades (deliberate replacement of at least one piece of content, assessment or skill with a contemporary one) Long Term Versioning: new versions of the program structures in our schools. (versioning the four key school structures: scheduling, student grouping patterns, teacher configurations, space (virtual and physical-replace old ways of working)

41. What do we want teachers to do? Make a difference.

42. Teachers account for about 30% of the variance in student achievement [Hattie] Differences between classes are as significant as differences between schools

43. What do we know about professional learning

44. Teacher Goalsand improvement plans… Personal learning networks not PD From External (top-down, one-off) to Internal (modelling, champions, ongoing) Reflect ‘best practice’ about what is known about effective professional learning – in-house, embedded into everyday work of teachers and action oriented

45. How do we help teachers manage change?

46. Collaboration not competition

48. Lead by Example

50. Do the reading and thinking

52. The Axioms Guiding Principles of EduCon 2.2 Our schools must be inquiry-driven, thoughtful and empowering for all members Our schools must be about co-creating — together with our students — the 21st Century Citizen Technology must serve pedagogy, not the other way around Technology must enable students to research, create, communicate and collaborate Learning can — and must — be networked http://educon22.org/

53. Don’t try to play catch-up, but don’t block either

55. Trimming…

57. Teachers are changing too

58. Generation Y Teachers (what they need) Professional Personal? Learning Networks

61. Warrick Wynne Email: wynneww@mlc.vic.edu.au Blog: http://learningau.wordpress.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/warrick_w http://www.diigo.com/list/warrickw/ripple-2010