impacts of ict on curriculum and assessment

THE IMPACT OF ICT ON ASSESSMENT & CURRICULUM Monique Dalli – Director of Learning & Innovation Emmaus Catholic College

WHERE I WORK

•  Emmaus Catholic College – Kemps Creek •  990 Enrolments •  37% Speak languages other than English

WHAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE

•  1:1 BYO ipad in year 7 •  Cabinets in classrooms in lots of 12 •  BYOD 8 - 12 •  1600 devices on site •  Projector in every room •  Google apps for Education school

HOW WE UTILSE THESE LIMITED RESOURCES:

•  Group tasks •  Cloud storage is ideal •  Airplay software (REFLECTOR) for sharing

on the projector •  PLAN AHEAD!

CREATING A COMMUNITY OF LEARNING

•  Student Techies

•  Students are exceptional leaders

•  Young leadership program, empowering

knowledge

•  Supports staff in implementation

IMPLEMENTING ICT INTO CLASSES

ICTs ALLOW US TO IMPLEMENT: •  BLENDED LEARNING •  FLIPPED CLASSROOMS •  PROJECT BASED LEARNING •  GRADUAL RELEASE OF RESPONSIBILITY •  DIFFERENTIATED CURRICULUM

THIS CHANGES OUR TEACHING PRACTICE

•  Shift of responsibility

•  Classes are noisy!

•  Teachers are facilitators

•  Content is discovered and explored

•  Teachers are empowered to curate their

courses

BLENDED LEARNING

•  Parts of course are delivered online

•  Technologies are seamlessly integrated

into the instruction

•  Weebly, Edmodo, blogs, ebooks

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EXAMPLES OF BLENDED LEARNING

DIFFERENTIATION •  Using online content to facilitate

differentiation

•  Differentiation isn't visible in the classroom

•  Extensions are always available

•  Teaching students the process of learning

GRADUAL RELEASE OF RESPONSIBILITY

THIS CREATES STUDENT CENTERED CLASSROOMS

http://www.assessmentforlearning.edu.au/professional_learning/learning_intentions/learning_intentions_landing_page.html

STUDENTS SAY. . .

•  “I like that we come into the classroom, we say

hi, we pray, we get to work”

•  “I can monitor where I am up to for the week

and manage my time”

•  “I lose everything, I can’t lose our weebly”

•  “Teachers talk SOOOOO much, they don’t have to”

HOW DO YOU IMPLENT THIS?

•  Start an online classroom space so students have access anywhere

–  Weebly, Edmodo, GoogleClassroom etc

•  Plan ahead and make work in a cohesive sequence

•  Have set criteria and/or schedules so students can self monitor

•  Teach and mode this learning processes in class

FLIPPED CLASSROOMS

•  Extension of a blended learning model

•  Exposure to content OUTSIDE classtime- shifts

content delivery to “homework time”

•  Utilises lesson time for higher order thinking

and application of concepts

WHAT DOES THIS LOOK LIKE?

WHY? •  Never enough class time TIME!

•  Provides students with opportunity to ENGAGE in content

•  Encourages a self sufficiency to learning and independency

•  Allows class time for feedback (the instruction is FLIPPED)

IS THIS HARD WORK?

•  Youtube, Khan Academy, Blend Space, Explain Everything , Voice Thread, Zaption

SUCCESS IS ALL ABOUT WORKFLOW

•  How do students GET work?

•  How do they DO the work?

•  How do they SUBMIT the work?

•  How do you provide FEEDBACK?

–  WHAT ICT’s WILL POWER THEIR LEARNING?

AN EXAMPLE WORKFLOW:

•  Work on WEEBLY •  DO the work on GOOGLE DRIVE •  SUBMIT the work on GOOGLE DRIVE •  FEEDBACK is given using DRIVE –  This is the BACKBONE of your work, NOT the

work.

DOES THIS ACTUALLY WORK?

•  YES.

CAN YOU DO THIS?

•  YES.

HOW ICT IS CHANGING CLASSROOMS

PARADIGM SHIFT? •  Information is accessed and stored in multiple

sources

•  Technology is integrated into the learning process

•  Assessment is in many forms – changed our

assessment policies, strategies, data collection

•  Teachers are skills focused

•  Best practice and good practice is viral

ASSESSMENT. . .

•  IS it FOR learning?

•  AS learning? •  OR OF learning?

–  http://syllabus.bos.nsw.edu.au/support-materials/assessment-for-as-and-of-learning/

ASSESSMENT CAN BE:

•  A collaborative task •  A stop motion or clay mation •  A student created comic book turned into an

eBook •  A podcast that is used by others

•  A solution to a real world problem –  Does assessment HAVE to be FORMAL?

DEVELOP YOURSELF

•  Go to a TEACH MEET

•  CHAT to TEACHERS about their work

•  JOIN your teaching association for PD opportunities relevant to your KLA

TECH & TEA

WHAT’S HOT IN OUR STAFFROOM:

•  HOT strategies as a PD theme

•  John Hattie + SMART data and RAP analysis

•  The LAZY teachers handbook – How your students

learn more when you teach less, Jim Smith

•  The Smartest Kids in the World and How They Got That

Way, Amanda Ripley

•  Literacy is not enough, 21st Century Fluencies, Lee Crockett

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