Preparing for a Contemporary Learning Environment - A Pedagogical View 2010

Manor Lakes P-12 / Specialist College

Assistant Principal - Helen Otway

About Me...

Teacher at Essendon Nth P.S

Leading Teacher at Parkwood Green P.S

DEECD Ultranet Coach

Assistant Principal - Manor Lakes P-12 / Specialist College

...with ICT ...with ICT

Focus on Learning & Teaching

Focus on Learning & Teaching

...and Thinking ...and

Thinking

Also...

ICTEV State Council Secretary

DEECD Web Conference Leader

Mum, wife, pet owner and renovator!!

About Manor Lakes P-12 Specialist College

• Brand new college, opened in 2009• 470 students in 2009, 880 in 2010• 2009 - P-7• 2010 - P-8 and specialist• Outer suburbs of Melbourne, Australia

School Staff StructurePrincipal Class Team - Principal, EY AP, MY AP, Specialist AP and Student Learning AP

Leading Teachers - Literacy x 2, Numeracy, ICT, Wellbeing and Community

Team Leaders for each VELS Level

Learning Area teachers and Specialist teachers

Educational Support Staff inc Office Support

SFO - for 2009

Developing an Learning

Environment

think big

think boldthink ahead

Marco Torres

What does this mean

for me?

Dream . Believe . Inspire

• Manor Lakes College will create a vibrant and

harmonious community of responsible learners who have a confident belief in their ability

to learn, grow and succeed.

Aiming HighAiming High

Showing Showing RespectRespect

Being SafeBeing Safe

Valuing the Valuing the CommunityCommunity

What were our considerations?

1.What sort of learning did we want to for our students?

2.How were we going to use the physical spaces?

3.What technologies were going to assist us?

1. Our learners....What are the skills and attitudes we want our students to have when they leave school?

How can we best support them in their learning?

• Articulate

• Creative

• Collaborative

• Problem Solvers

• Global Citizens

• Connected

• Active

• Literate & Numerate

Our learning needs to be....

Inclusive of all students

Rich, rigorous and relevant

Integrated and Inquiry driven

Stimulating and engaging

Explicit when necessary

Innovative and guided by research

Learning needs to be.. Celebrates success

Differentiated to meet individual needs

Open and transparent

Inclusive of various pathways

Aligned with VELS, Pre VELS and the National Curriculum

THE LEARNING.... purposeful, rich, real world, collaborative, creative, engaging...

Traditional Paradigm “Teaching” Constructivism Paradigm “Learning”

Memorization Understanding

Recall Discovery

One size fits all Tailored; option rich

Talent via weeding out Talent cultivated and sought out

Repetition Transfer and Construction

Acquisition of facts Facts and conceptual framework

Isolated facts Organised conceptual schemas

Transmission Construction

Teacher = master and commander Teacher = expert and mentor

Fixed roles Mobile roles

Fixed classrooms Mobile, convertible classrooms

Single location Plurality of locations and space types

Summative assessment Summative and formative assessment

Malcolm Brown Dartmouth College

http://www.educause.edu/Resources/EducatingtheNetGeneration/LearningSpaces/6072

2. Our Learning Spaces

Learning Houses

Open plan

Project spaces

Fluid furniture

Light

Considerations

Power supply

Connectivity

Storage

Supporting staff with Learning Spaces...Learning walks early in the year

Visits to other school settings

Whole school dialogue about classroom design

Team Planning time to reflect on design

Coaches supporting staff

What we liked on visits...

What we didn’t like...

Changes made...

Semi-round tables were ordered

Makeshift walls came down

Students were able to move from table to table - did not ‘own’ a chair and table space

Peers came in to help design learning spaces

The Library...

A Prep classroom...

A Year 8 class..

Community spaces...

PLAYGROUP

3. The technologies

Laptops From P-6 (1:5) and Year 7-8 (1:1)

Mobile learning toolslaptops & Mobile IWBs

PARENT GROUP -

INFORMATION

SESSIONS

YEAR 8 STUDENTS

SHARING THEIR LAPTOP PROGRAM

Technology by itself doesn’t improve learning...

Information and communication technology offers a diversity of learning opportunities from which teachers and learners can make

decisions.

Our challenge...

is to make the learning experiences for our students

richer, more meaningful and the use of tools that can support and

promote deep understandings.

Alan November

Don’t buy any more stuff (technology) until we get the teaching and learning right.

It can create problems if teachers do not have the teaching and learning right, and if there isn’t the professional learning.

Supporting staff with technology...

Work in teams

Techie Brekkies

School visits

Apple Tour for Year 7 teachers, APs, Tech support

Off site PD and Conferences

ICT Coach in 2010

ConferencesOur staff are encouraged to present at national and international conferences.

Professional Learning

Aligned with school goals

Ongoing

Onsite and close to the classroom

Offsite and brought back to the teams

Coaching

Timetable

Middle block is a dedicated planning time for all teams

Creating a 1:1 Learning Environment

1:1 Learning - 1:1 Learning - What do we mean by What do we mean by this?this?

What are the first thoughts that come to mind?

What does it mean for each of these people?

What does it mean for each of these people?

Students?

Teachers?

Leaders?

Parents?

From eLearning vision to 1:1

Bruce Dixon

Preparing for 1:1

Community readiness

Teacher readiness

Student readiness

Is this what we mean?

Preparing for 1:1Community Community ReadinessReadiness

Shift in Shift in thinkingthinkingOpen and Open and

transparent transparent learninglearningStudent Student Learning Learning

ConferencesConferencesInformation Information sessions sessions

Teacher Teacher ReadinessReadiness

Shift in Shift in thinking thinking

New ways of New ways of delivering delivering curriculumcurriculum

Use of ICT for Use of ICT for learninglearning

Taking risksTaking risks

StudentStudentReadinessReadiness

Shift in Shift in thinkingthinking

Learning how to Learning how to learn learn

Working with Working with othersothers

Being digitally Being digitally responsible and responsible and

awareaware

What our new teachers had to say...

Keeping Safe

- 5/6 Inquiry

What technologies do the students

use?

How do they use them?

Media - CopyrightYear 7 Unit

Why explore Copyright?

What did it mean for our learners?

http://resnet.ucsc.edu/besmart/filesharing/

What did it mean for us?

Where to next?

iPad trial

The Ultranet...

Where to find us...http://www.manorlakesp12.vic.edu.au/

Continuing the dialogue • Ning - http://1to1learningenvironments.ning.com/

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