The impact of Learning Power at Bushfield Primary School

Simon Buckingham Shum Chair of Governors, Bushfield School Visiting Fellow, Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol Senior Lecturer & Assoc. Director (Technology), Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University Co-Founder, LearningEmergence.net

The original University of Bristol research project that started it all… What makes children good learners?

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…translated from academia into practical training

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…translated from academia into practical training

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Pupils place their logos on the Managing

Distractions scale 1-4

“Collaborating Muscles” are broken down into constituent

practices

Noticing muscles, Wondering muscles

and Linking muscles, combined in a problem

solving strategies poster

Since adopting Learning Power in 2009, Bushfield has been one of the fastest and most effective schools to embed BLP into its daily life

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http://bushfield.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/guy-claxton-art-costa-visit

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6 month TLO audit of BLP embedding

http://bushfieldschool.net/learning/BLP-Nov2009.html

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Ofsted 2010: HMIs recognise dispositional impact

http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/sbs/2010/07/learning-skills-impact-ofsted-inspection

Impact of BLP @Bushfield?

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Teachers learn what it feels like to give much

more autonomy to pupils Visitors regularly comment on

how well pupils can work independently and in groups

We have a language for learning which is part of what it means to learn and teach at

Bushfield The language spills out from the classroom into other

contexts, inc. home

Self-regulation means we can explore inquiry-based learning

with more confidence

See also The Learning Powered School, by Guy Claxton 2012

Going deeper with Learning Power…

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How to assess personal and collective Learning Power more

systematically?

What happens when you apply Learning

Power to the curriculum?... Personal

Inquiry

Yr6 mapping BLP learning muscles

to ELLI dimensions

Yr6 mapping BLP learning muscles

to ELLI dimensions

Now piloting ELLI with Yr 6, in conjunction with personalised AIPs

“Authentic Inquiry Projects”

Scaffolding authentic inquiry with a blog: OU/Bristol’s EnquiryBlogger adds ‘learning plugins’ inc. ELLI

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Scaffolding authentic inquiry with a blog: OU/Bristol’s EnquiryBlogger adds ‘learning plugins’ inc. ELLI

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Teacher’s dashboard for EnquiryBlogger

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towards... “Learning Warehouse 3.0”

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Datasets: >40,000 ELLI profiles

(data from other hosted apps)

Learning Warehouse 2.0

Analytics: Real time ELLI Analytics reports

Bespoke research reports

User experience: Research-validated assessment tools

Researcher interface Learning Communities

Data Sets

Learning Warehouse 2.0

Learning Analytics

Learning App Store Learning Communities

Data Sets + Data Streams

Learning Warehouse 2.0 (3.0)

Learning Analytics System Simulations

Recommendation Engines

Learning App Store Learning Communities Collective Intelligence

ELLIment: scaling up ELLI mentoring online

30 Thomas Ullman, KMi: http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/ullmann/projects/ELLIMent

http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/SocialLearnResearch

ELLI-based analytics for a social learning platform

Could we generate an ELLI profile not from what you say, but from what you actually do when you’re learning?

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How I see myself as a learner through ELLI self-report…

Learning Analytics on what I do as a

learner…

Using ELLI dimensions to classify online activity

§  Time-spent in different parts of applications §  Might repeated attempts to pass an online test load

onto Resilience? §  Might the sharing of good resources from eclectic

domains load onto Meaning Making? §  Discourse analytics to detect ‘exploratory talk’ and

argumentation in online spaces §  Might the presence of questioning and challenging in

discourse load onto Critical Curiosity? §  Social network analytics

§  Might different SNA patterns in different contexts load onto Learning Relationships?

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Modelling complex learning systems

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Can we model learning systems in which we vary differences in agents’

learning power and other key variables?

To join the global community… LearningEmergence.net

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