raju varanasi presentation
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Innovations in Teaching and Learning —the NSW Journey
Raju Varanasi, Director, NSW Curriculum & Learning Innovation Centre
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NSW CLIC — Services and Products
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A new dynamic in the classroom...
• Quality learning design• Flexibility of delivery • Engagement • Authenticity• Collaboration• Competition
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Data to inform engagement
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Data to inform engagement
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Leveraging success
• Use knowledge gained from MuM• Focus on specific syllabus content• Rapid development• Very popular with students —
100,000+ visitors
For example:
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City of Fear
Syllabus – History for 10 to 14-year-olds• Engagement — you’re immersed• Authenticity — students working with original documents and
photos to conduct genuine research — they’re learning historiography. Students learn about 19th century Sydney society in the context of solving a mystery about an outbreak of bubonicplague — yes, it really happened.
• Format easily adaptable for individual, collaborative, group or assignment activity.
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Digital Dilemma
Syllabus — Digital Citizenship for 14 to 16-year-olds — Your digital footprint•Engagement — you’re immersed in a music festival•Authenticity — Players must make decisions in a simulated social network — Tracebook — and deal with the consequences of their decisions.•Format easily adaptable for individual, collaborative, group or assignment activity.
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The Taste of Danger
Syllabus — Food Technology and Science for 12 to 16-year-olds•Engagement — you’re immersed — in a laboratory, a hospital and a café. •Authenticity — students working with current health protocols and health documents. They track down the cause of a food poisoning outbreak and make decisions about how to deal with it.•Format easily adaptable for individual, collaborative, groupor assignment activity.
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The Digital Education Revolution NSW journey
What were our teachers and students faced with?
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The DER journey to date
Now add teacher professional learning?
Student generated learning resources
Now??
What we provided...
User generated resources
Wraps — content and skills
Tools4U — tools
UCreate — process
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Teacher capacity building
Build a personal learningnetwork
Digital Citizenship
Creating a laptop wrap
Publicly available courses Internally available courses
GeoGebra for beginners
Digital stories for early learners
Using the Intel Visual Ranking Toolfor higher order thinking
We have the resources, now we need to build teacher capacity…
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Learner centred awards
In association with
Digital StoryAwards
Short Film Awards
Web Design Awards
Greeting Card Design Awards
Animation Awards
Radio News Awards
Principal Sponsor
Major Sponsors Supporting Sponsors
Digital ArtAwards
A winning entry…
From these .. to this ..
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Digital Citizenship
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So, how do I find all this?
http://www.tale.edu.au
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Point to point collaboration solutions
• A suite of video conference cameras, desktop sharing software and IWBs in all schools
• Adobe Connect enterprise solution• Desktop videoconferencing• Virtual selective high school• Virtual gifted and talented primary classes• Remote 1:1 literacy intervention• Future - Speech pathology, adult literacy, early childhood
screening
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1:1 remote literacy intervention
Royal Far West School • Needed to deliver ongoing intervention support to students in
remote schools• Framework design that can be repurposed for different intervention
strategies• Literacy package rendered in Flash within an Adobe Connect pod• Intervention delivered to the student’s classroom• Expertise in metropolitan areas supporting remote communities
Royal Far West School — SOLVE-IT
User guides [pdf 589KB]
wall chart [pdf 229KB]
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Challenge – “natural classroom” collaboration
Multipoint to Multipoint ‘crowd’ collaboration —• ‘iSee’ used in an immersive learning platform• Natural classroom communication• Active collaboration rather than consumption of online content• Students immersed with high definition spatial audio and live
webcam video instead of avatars• Equity of access — anywhere, anytime• Live, rather than summative data • Everything can be saved and
replayed from any perspective
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Contact
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www.clic.det.nsw.edu.auwww.TaLe.edu.au