Designing e-Learning

Karen Melhuish Spencer | @virtuallykaren | #corebreakfast 2013

Waiata / Tēnā koutou, e hoa mā

Tēnā koutou, e hoa mā             Greetings, oh friends      Kua tae mai nei i tēnei rā          Arrived here this day  Nō reira rā, e hoa mā                Therefore, oh friends,Kia ora rā, koutou katoa            Good health, to you all

Kua rongo hoki ahau                  I had heard of course Kua rongo hoki ahau                  I had heard of course Kua rongo hoki ahau                  I had heard of course Kei te haere mai koutou            That you were all coming Nō reira rā, e hoa mā                 Therefore, oh friends,Kia ora rā, koutou katoa             Good health, to you all

Build a tower

Build a tower

How high can you build a tower before its stability

is affected?

The technology is far less important than the kind of education that it enables.

‘Watch the world’ - Robbie Dingo | ‘Starry Night over the Rhone - Van Gogh

New types of knowledge

WHAT’S THE POINT?Ministry of Education, 2013

Since our education systems were first established there has been enormous change in the nature of societies,

change in the nature of work, change in how knowledge is viewed, and

change in technologies, to name just a few.

Those changes, and the certainty of ongoing change, have implications for the kind of education our young people require, and the focus of the teaching and learning they experience”

“

Ministry of Education, 2013

UNBUNDLE thinking

UNBUNDLEstructure

UNBUNDLE content

The potential of new technologies to

transform

teaching and learning is heavily dependent on

educators’ abilities

to see

the affordances and capacities of ICT in relation to the underpinning themes for learning for the 21st century ”

“

SIX THEMES

personalise

diversify

apply knowledge

rethink roles

continue to learn

connect to community

Think of a learner....

1 / PERSONALISE LEARNING

Personal choiceand pathways

Personal learningenvironments

How can you use a technology to give the student personal choice?

2/ DELIBERATELY DIVERSIFY

NeverSeconds blog (Martha)

How can you use a technology to support and teach for diversity?

3/ PUT KNOWLEDGE TO WORK

Fraser High’s Passionfruit project

http://www.passionfruitmagazine.co.nz/

“'I think I did really well with this story. I enjoyed dressing up to tell my story, it made me feel like Margaret Mahy.

I think I would like to do more of this, and maybe tell my stories to younger children.

I would really like some children to tell me what could make my stories better.'”

How can you use technologies so the learning purpose is real and authentic?

4/ RETHINK ROLES

Source: Switcheroo

How can you use technologies so that students and teachers create knowledge together?

5/ CONTINUE TO LEARN

inquiry

Professional Learning

unconference

How can you use technologies to support on-going learning and inquiry?

6/ CONNECT WITH THE COMMUNITY

“It’s another way of sharing what’s going on in our school and for those parents

that can’t get away, letting them just quickly login for five minutes, see what their

child’s doing.”

Connecting learners to whānau

Connecting learners to experts

Connecting teachers and schools to each other

www.vln.school.nz

How can you use technologies to connect with whānau, local and global communities?

"The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet."- Gibson

What does ‘effective’ mean?

e-Learning Planning Framework

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“Who dares to

teach

must never

cease to learn.” - John Cotton Dana

“Knowing is not enough;

we must apply.

Willing is not enough;

we must do.”-Goethe