hwdsb 21st cf journey_july 2011
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Presentation shared at CASA Conference, July 2011. Sharing the HWDSB 21st Century Fluencies Strategy.TRANSCRIPT
Learning in Today’s Digital WorldTaking Action and Focus on 21st Century Fluencies
Why are we all here together today?
Learning Session Goals:
• To share our District 21st Century Fluencies Strategy
• To build our thinking together on advancing teaching and learning in today’s digital world
Setting the context…
Learning for All:HWDSB Program Strategy
Why a Program Strategy?• Best meet the needs of students in the 21st century
• Provide students with choice, support and direction
• Provide safe, nurturing and innovative learning environments
• Provide pathway to success for every single one of our students
• learning never stops, it must be engaging and have relevance to the learner
• 21st-century fluencies are a blend of thinking and behaving skills that are key to learning and working in today’s world
• focussing on the 5 fluencies allows us to make learning relevant in today’s digital world for our students and ourselves
• the 21st-century fluencies are more about headware than hardware
Let’s think about how these fluencies impact all of us in our personal lives?
skype
Digital Camera
Collaboration
Information
Media
Creative
Solution
On-line
bankingScheduling
Let’s move from personal connections to professional ones.
Discussion At your table, discuss how your board is working towards creating the conditions that embed 21st century fluencies in learning environments?
Record on whiteboard and be prepared to share.
Implementation Science:
Getting from Here to There in Education
Inspiring and Modeling Evidence-
Based Practice
Teaching and Learning in the
digital age
Knowledge and Plans
Sustained Actions
The Study of Implementation
Implementation Science lives in “The Space Between”
Exploration Installation Initial Implement Exploration Partial Implementation Full Implementation Innovation Sustainability
2 - 4 years
From Fixsen, Naoom, Blase, Friedman, & Wallace, 2005
The Phases of Implementation
21st Century Fluencies Strategy
Foundation -People-Plan-Processes and Protocols -Alignment-Sustainability
Pedagogy
-21st century teaching and learning-collaborative inquiry-higher order thinking skills
Technology-tools, emerging technologies and equipment that enhance teaching and learning in the digital age-access
Learning Environment
-infrastructure-physical / virtual -informal / formal spaces
Learning Communities & Networks
-Capacity building with staff -Student and parent voice-Community connections
Creating Learning Spaces • facilitate deeper and richer learning when we
design and structure spaces with learning in mind
Information and Communications Technology Infrastructure
GOAL is to support:
The “bricks and mortar” of Information & Communications Technology (ICT) “minimally-negotiable”
The foundation that supports the variety of uses of IT from the Classroom to the Board Room
Structured by standards and industry best practices
HWDSB ICT InfrastructureWhat Is It?
At HWDSB we categorize ICT Infrastructure as:• Hardware – End-user Devices, Peripherals, Data Centre Equipment
• Software – OS, Security, Application & Database Standards, Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity
• Communications – Wired/Wireless Networks, Internet Services, Unified Communications Strategy for Voice, Data and Collaboration
• Support – Staff Resources, Client Training and Support, ICT Skill levels
HWDSB ICT InfrastructureWhat Is It?
Keys to Success:
• Standards and Practices• Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) & Refresh Cycles• IT Vendor Relationships (IBM, Atria, Microsoft)
HWDSB ICT InfrastructureHow Do We Manage It?
Computer ServicesCorporate Services
WAN, Data Centre Operations, Unified Comm., Security, Corporate DBA, DR Planning
Technical Services Computer Deployment/Repairs, Image Management,
School NetworksClient Services
Help Desk, Training & Support, SIS, Data Warehouse DBA, Data Reporting, Data Mobilization
HWDSB ICT InfrastructureHow Do We Support It?
Data Centre Server Growth11:1 (ele) & 9:1 (sec) Standard Desktop100+ Applications on our ImagesNo Supported Technology for TeachersOnly 30% Wireless in our Learning SpacesEnd-of-Life Network Equipment20-30 Year-old Telephone Systems
HWDSB ICT InfrastructureWhat Have Been Our Woes?
Data Centre Server Consolidation/Virtual.Desktop/Application Virtualization HWDSB Private CloudBring Your Own Device (BYOD)
Laptop, PDA/Smartphone, Tablet, iPAD Enterprise Portal Development Unified Communications Ubiquitous Wireless/Network Connectivity
HWDSB ICT InfrastructureWhat Are Our Plans?
WHATEVER, WHEREVER, WHENEVER– Cloud Computing (Potentially Hybrid Cloud)– BYOD–Wireless in all Learning Spaces– Enterprise Portal (Social Network, Parent Access,
Learning Management Collaboration, Search)–Unified Communications (Facilitates Collaboration)– Knowledge Mobility (Teacher Access to Achievement
Data, Future of MISA)– 21st Century Learning
HWDSB ICT InfrastructureSupporting
21st Century Fluencies
How does your current ICT infrastructure support your goals with 21st CF and creating optimal learning conditions?
If not entirely, what do you need to accomplish with your ICT infrastructure going forward?
Leadership & Learning Department: Interdisciplinary team responding to support teachers meeting the needs of students
21st Century Fluencies Advisory Committee:Diverse group of HWDSB staff, student trustee & community members
Being Responsive to System Needs
• Facilitate learning (through the adult learning model) by working with school and principal learning teams
• Facilitate learning with networks• Facilitate learning focused on such priorities as:
Critical literacy / higher order thinking skills / 21st Century fluencies;The TLCP Process;Comprehensive literacy / literacy intervention strategies;Differentiated instruction / tiered intervention / universal design;Problem-solving approaches to mathematics; Formative assessment
Annual Operating Plan
• Focus on critical literacy, higher order thinking skills, collaborative inquiry, knowledge mobility
• Participate in networking
• Introduce and support the use of tools and technology
• Model and facilitate the incorporation oexisting technologies
• Explore the creation of 21st century classrooms
• Explore the use of 21st century fluencies
http://prezi.com/2k0tsqvibts7/21st-century-fluencies/
Learning Spaces
An approach to learning
• A way to focus on learning collaboratively• Flexible, responsive, expansive• Virtual and physical spaces
A way of being and learning with an emphasis on collaboration, co-creation and sharing. Technology and print are intermixed.
Discussion How do you design conditions that embed 21st century fluencies in virtual and physical learning spaces?
How can we support our staff to partner with their students to create highly engaging blended learning environments?
Creating a Learning Commons StrategyCollaborating with the Leaders
Start out by studying how the Learning Commons will work best in the school
Establish a timeline for development
List the school’s real and potential learning spaces
Determine gaps in the how the virtual and physical learning spaces are accessed
Evaluate the technology that is available for it’s potential use
What are the tools and resources your students will need, what are your school’s learning goals, and how can they be woven into your Learning Commons?
Innovative Thinking Project
Innovative Thinking Project
Principal, School, Teacher Learning
Teams
Student Voice
Parent & Community Engagement
Service Departments:eBEST
& Corporate
Communications
Leadership & Learning Department:
Interdisciplinary Learning Team
Partner:Ideaction in Education
Focusing in: THE WHY
Ensure our students are prepared for the world today as well as a future we have not even thought of yet.
Provide real, relevant responsive education so that each student becomes a lifelong learner and contributing citizen in a diverse world
Strengthening the focus: Innovative Thinking
There is a focus on critical literacy, higher-order thinking skills and 21st-century fluencies.
Purposefully plan for blended learning in classroomsBlended learning mixes various activities, including face-to-face classrooms, live e-learning, and self-paced instruction.
• opens the door to individualized instruction• allows students to control their learning by working at their own pace• gives them access to new resources.• introduces students to online learning • allows teachers to experiment with new pedagogies and techniques• build student learning skills • allows for flexibility • retains the face-to-face aspect faculty may cherish.• engages students as it meets their expectations for utilizing technology• develops independent learning skills.• offers increased flexibility, convenience and access
Key Points:
Must leverage the pedagogy and the technology of today to create engaging and relevant learning experiences for all learners that is real world
21st century teaching requires innovation, problem solving, creativity, continuous improvement, research, diagnostic use of data
21st century learning must be flexible and personalized
Focus on connected leading , learning and teaching model – networking & learning communities
21st century classrooms and schools must have learning spaces that are responsive to how students learn
As we move forward, let’s ask… • What does a 21st-century model classroom look like in
terms of design?
• What is in an instrumented classroom of the 21st century that is student-centred?
-wireless, sound field augmentation, lighting, millwork -hardware, tools (low tech & high tech) -furniture, equipment -BYOD -multiple learning spaces within the classroom
• How do we get at the motivation and the competency of staff the right way where technology is seen as serving the pedagogy?
Learning into Action
• Model creative ways of thinking, learning and working together
• Be open to using new tools / technologies and ways to collaborate and learn
Collaboration
Solution
Information
Media
Creative
21st-centuryfluencies