Ultranet Learning Tasks and

Learner Profile

What’s the BIG Idea?

The Ultranet connects people, places, spaces and ideas.

It is an online student centred

learning environment that supports high-quality learning and teaching, connects students and parents and

enables efficient knowledge transfer.

It enables a rich knowledge framework for schools, making

classrooms without walls possible

online, 24/7 anywhere access for students,

parents & teachers

a continuous record of student learning

progress over time

student information for personalised curriculum

planning & delivery

opportunities for students to take greater

responsibility for their learning

facilitated knowledge transfer for teachers &

sharing across the State

a contemporary looking system & customised

for Victoria

Web 2.0 tools for teachers & students to

collaborate within & across schools

leading practice in online curriculum planning,

delivery & assessment

The Ultranet will deliver….

Education Workflow

Education Workflow Product Workflow

Education Workflow Product Workflow Using the Ultranet, Planning can include: • Organising your Learning Tasks in a way that

suits you or your school • Create a variety of Learning Tasks for your

students • Assign a Standard to each Learning Task

Using the Ultranet, Planning can include: • Organising your Learning Tasks in a way that

suits you or your school • Create a variety of Learning Tasks for your

students • Assign a Standard to each Learning Task

Education Workflow Using the Ultranet, Teaching can include: • Using Release 1 resources and Spaces • Providing direct access to web-based content • Providing self-paced learning opportunities • Providing individualised curriculum

Product Workflow

TEACHER VIEW STUDENT VIEW TEACHER VIEW

Education Workflow Using the Ultranet, Teaching can include: • Using Release 1 resources and Spaces • Providing direct access to web-based content • Providing self-paced learning opportunities • Providing individualised curriculum

Using the Ultranet, Assessment can include: • Dynamic Reporting • Dynamic Feedback (Observations)

• Student Profile visual data

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TEACHER VIEW STUDENT VIEW

Product Workflow

Education Workflow Using the Ultranet, Assessment can include: • Dynamic Reporting • Dynamic Feedback (Observations) • Coming soon:

• Student Profile visual data

Product Workflow Using the Ultranet, Student Data look like: • Manually entered data:

• Confirmation of Standard achievement • Observations (comments)

• Individual tasks • Overall progress

• Dynamic data: • Task progress feeds • Standard demonstration progress feeds • Individual Task Observation feeds

STUDENT VIEW TEACHER VIEW

Privacy (who sees what?)

IMPORTANT: This should be a key component of your communication with staff

Key areas of interest DYNAMIC SYSTEMS • Creation of Learning Tasks in a class means instant access by students and

parents (by default) • Learning Tasks and Observations won’t go through a peer monitoring system

to check for errors (by default) PARENT AND STUDENT COLLABORATION IN THE REPORTING SYSTEM • Parents have access to tasks and observations created by teachers for their

child (by default) • Parents and students can comment on teacher observations (by default)

QUESTIONS?

1. CONNECT

How are the ideas and information connected to what you

already know?

2.EXTEND

What new ideas did you get that extend your thinking in new

directions?

3. CHALLENGE

What is still challenging or confusing for you?

What can PARENTS see?

Learner Profile

Teacher, Parent, Student:

Learner Profile for a student (Relationship View)

Teacher only

can click on a

class to drill

down

Teacher, student

or parent can

click on a

teacher for more

information

Parent uses this

button to access

their child’s

eXpress space

Relationship

View

Click breadcrumbs to

return to a previous page

Teacher, Parent, Student:

Learner Profile for a student (Profile View)

Click the dropdown

arrow in the top-right

of each box to drill

down to more detail

Click the Progress

button to see detailed

reports

This view is available to teachers,

students and parents

Data will be progressively

built up over time.

Profile

View

Click a class in the list to

go directly to the profile

view for that class

What can PARENTS see?

Learning Tasks (of their child)

Parent: View child’s work on a Learning Item (Journal)

View teacher’s

instructions to

students

View journal

entries submitted

by child and by

the teacher

Parent: View teacher’s feedback on a Learning Item

To add an

Observation

click the New

button

View

Demonstrations

recorded by the

teacher for this item.

View Comments and

Grades or Marks

recorded by the teacher

for this item.

Parent: add Observation about Learning Item

Parent: Review child’s Confirmations, Demonstrations and Opportunities

Click to view

detail of

Confirmation

Click to view

Demonstrations and

Opportunities

Select

child

Parent: view detail of Confirmations

Parent: view Demonstrations and Opportunities

Select a Learning

Item and click Go

A Demonstration has been

recorded for this Learning

Item

Parent: view detail of Confirmations

Parent: Add general Observation about child

Education Workflow How the Ultranet

supports quality

learning and teaching

Student Data

• Where are my students up to with their learning?

• Teachers can readily access rich, up-to-date information about their students…

Ultranet functionality?

Plan

What and how do I want my students to learn?

• Teachers can readily collaborate with their colleagues and share their curriculum planning.

• Data can be used to plan and deliver a more personalised curriculum

• Digital learning resources can be incorporated.

• Collaborative learning can be facilitated through web 2.0 tools

Ultranet functionality?

Teach

• How do I actively support and monitor my student’s learning?

• Learning tasks are delivered online or offline and are facilitated by the teacher

• The teacher monitors student learning

• Ultranet functionality?

Assess

What evidence of learning have my students demonstrated?

• Teachers can assess and record student progress online.

• Students capture evidence of their learning

• Ultranet functionality?

Teaching and Learning Cycle

e5

DETERMINES READINESS FOR LEARNING

What will the teacher say and do?

Engage

Assesses prior knowledge

Identifies a purpose for

learning

Connects to students’ lives

SAY DO

What did we learn yesterday?

What do we know about…?

What strategies did you use? Where do we use this in

everyday life? What language/words might we

use/hear?

How might you learn/do it?

Differentiated tasks / groupings Students involved in pre lesson

discussion about what they know.

Encourage students to share strategies previously used or that may be used.

Encourage/ prompt confident reflections by students.

Stipulate lesson focus. Explicitly teach correct

vocabulary. Brainstorm and discuss.

Establish a clear focus for learning and share with students.

Help students make connections to the real world.

e5 FACILITATE SUBSTANTIVE CONVERSATION

What will the teacher say and do?

Elaborate

Promotes thinking

Maintains the flow of

conversation

Builds on participants

ideas

SAY DO

What do you think….?

How do you know…..? Can anyone add

information…

How can we……? Could you tell me more

…. Give me an

example…….

The teacher will question

others to build on and evaluate student responses.

The teacher will provide a range of entry points for students to work at own level.

The teacher will provide challenging tasks.

The teacher will promote teacher /student and student/student conversation.

e5 CULTIVATES HIGHER ORDER THINKING

What will the teacher say and do?

Elaborate

Structures learning tasks

Extends learning to new

contexts

Provides feedback

Adjusts instruction

SAY DO

How can we use these

understandings in another situation?

What if….? If we know this what does

that mean when applied to……?

Why did you do that?

The teacher will provide an

activity /activities to promote evaluation, analyising and synthesizing.

The teacher will encourage prediction/justification of strategies.

The teacher facilitates students to apply understandings to make generalisation. (see rules and patterns.

The teacher will present problem solving tasks to students.

QUESTIONS?

Can you describe the user experience of the Ultranet (from the Teachers', Students', Parents' point of views)

Can you describe a use-case for the Ultranet which makes

it utterly irresistible & seductive?

What would you invent to extend, or improve the Ultranet? (It needn't be technology.)