peter-apricot.ppt
- 1. Technology : The classroom, the challenges and the future Peter Lasscock Department of Education Victoria, Australia
- 2. “The focus of the Department of Education’s communication and multimedia strategy is to realise the potential of technology to enhance the quality of all aspects of education, especially student learning. To compete and be successful in an information rich, technologically-enhanced and rapidly changing environment, students need to be highly skills and flexible in their ability to use technology in all its forms.” (Learning Technologies in Victorian Schools 1998-2001:8)
- 3. 1. effective planning: all aspects of the school’s operations 2. computer networks: information,communication and collaboration 3. Internet: a powerful learning tool 4. Intranet: a private network 5. expanding role of library Key findings of navigator schools
- 4. 6. learning technologies has challenged teachers 7. integration of learning technologies: a whole school process 8. collegiate culture 9. changed classroom practice 10. electronic links between home and school
- 5. Statewide Vision • All schools developed information and communication technology plans by the end of 1998 • All principals have implementing these plans as part of their performance review • All teachers must improve their skills • Financial support to schools
- 6. Government to provide AUS$26 million over 4 years for 63,000 new multimedia capable computers. Government to provide AUS$9 million over two years for improved access to technologies by teachers. Computers in schools: Improve the computers to students ratio to 1:5 by June 2000.
- 7. • 40 hours of professional development. Notebooks for teachers: Notebook computers to be provided to 36,700 principals and teachers over a period of five years.
- 8. • wide area network - Min 64 Kb link • 1,900 sites including: Schools TAFE colleges Department administration VicOne Re-engineering delivery of education at both curriculum and administration levels
- 9. CASES 21 Whole school approach to re-engineering school’s administration process • system administration • student/academic administration • asset register • student absence and accident register • finance and payroll • curriculum and assessment
- 10. SINA SCHOOLSNET INTERNET NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR mailbox manager access manager web manager
- 11. An example from one school: Bendigo Senior Secondary College http://www.bssc.edu.au
- 12. Background • 1993 - Steering committee established, Spending put on hold for 2 years • 1993/94 - Staff visit state, interstate and overseas • 1994 - Whole college plan developed SOSE example
- 13. Background • 1995 - Learning area plans developed, network rolled out • Dec 1995 - Laptops for all staff • Jan/Feb 1996 - Classroom machines • 1996 - Learning are plans updated, coaching team established • 1997 - Timetabled professional development
- 14. Background • 1730 Students in year 11 and 12 in 1999 • Every classroom has between 2 and 6 computers - all networked and connected to the internet • 600 families connected from home via 60 dial in lines • Staff connected from home
- 15. The Network Any Computer Library The Home Any Student Digital Resource Centre All Staff Rooms The Internet All Classrooms Any Teacher
- 16. curriculum driven network not network driven curriculum
- 17. Evolution • The power of letting go • The physical space • Professional development
- 18. Letting go Teachers need to: • Understand the potential of what students can do with computers • Implement structures to facilitate this happening • Build their own skills but not be scared that they don’t know how to do it themselves • 89% of staff at BSSC are happy that students know more about computers and software than themselves. LOTE example
- 19. Evolution of the classroom • What will the classroom become? • Laboratories to classroom machines • Distinct information technology classes to appropriate integration into all subject areas • One place and time to many places and times • Technology in control to learner in control Triple science example
- 20. Low expectations of the teacher - Narrow learning outcomes High expectations of the teacher - Broad learning outcomes User has control Technology has control SimCity etc Drill and practice eg Math Blaster and many CD ROMs HyperStudio, Microworlds, PowerPoint, Clarisworks, Kid Pix, Office, Web Publishing Software,Email Software Pyramid Graeme Oswin 1997
- 21. Professional development • Skills in context – Make the main focus what you can do in the classroom - this gives a need to learn the skills • Share & celebrate – develop teams with expectations of outcomes – share - students and staff – create support structures English discussion forum
- 22. Support for staff • Emotional • Pedagogical • Technical Art - teacher Art - student
- 23. Support for Staff • Teaching and learning – 4 teaching and learning coaches – PD based around teaching and learning, in teams • Technical – Technology development manager – 2 full time technicians – 2 full time web support – 15 students part time
- 25. The future • What future do our students face? • What skills will they need? • What skills will a teacher need to equip our students for the future? • What outcomes are possible? PhotoShop IRC Website
- 26. 80% of the children currently in Years 6 & 7 will enter careers which don’t exist now. 90% of the technology to be used in the year 2000 has not been invented or is not available yet. Graduates will have been exposed to more information in a year than their grandparents in a lifetime. (Commission for the Future/Finn Meyer Report, 1992)
- 28. mailbox manager • Manage email accounts from school through a web browser • Secure administrator logon • filter mail • batch accounts for students
- 29. access manager • View all sites visited • View all searches made by students • Control and breakdown of costs • Snapshot toll allows administrator to see what sites all active users are on
- 30. web manager • Allows creation of school, teacher and student web pages through a browser interface • CGI tools - counters, chat etc • Access statistics • Filters and control tools through censorman.