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Results Don't Just Happen

Wireless - Connecting learners into our vision

for a Connected Learning Community.

Aidan McCarthy – Director of Information and learning Technologies

4 July 2001

Results Don't Just HappenAbout JPC

• An ecumenical independent childcare – year 12 & international school in Queensland

– 2300 students– 310 staff– $23 million annual turnover

• Renowned for:• Technology program• Marching Band• Arts & sporting program


At John Paul College our vision is to create a Connected Learning Community through a commitment to developmental learning and teaching:• Student at the centre of the learning process• Learning be contemporary and relevant• How to learn is more important that what to learn• Learning is a life-long process• Learning be fun• Learning is connected

Our Vision


“to provide a learning environment, where the use of powerful information and learning technologies are integrated into student’s everyday experiences”

Our curriculum vision


How does technology facilitate developmental

learning?• Allows for continuous learning• Allows for collaborative learning• Caters for all learning styles, and all

skill levels• Is fun• Allows for the learning program to

be designed by the learner


• Allows for personal management of knowledge in terms of– Relevance

– Timeliness

– Format – multimedia; web-enabled; interactive

How does technology facilitate developmental

learning?


A student focused curriculumBeing able to use technology

without thinking technology“The (i) (Sony) (n) -generation

don’t need to think outside the box. They don’t know a box exists.”

Albert Lai


“Putting computers into some schools is akin to putting an internal combustion engine into a horse.”

Lewis Perelman 1992


• To ‘read’ print and visual media;• To communicate in multiple forms – written, oral,

body, visual and electronic• To work independently and interdependently• To be reliable;• To be effective problem solvers• To think critically as well as imaginatively• To be flexible and adaptable• To use new tools of information and knowledge

management technologies;• To learn how to learn

The New Basics

Results Don't Just HappenEncarta Class Server


Recent reports in the US and Australia sees a widening jobs and skills market with statistics of more than 500,000 ICT jobs unfilled in the US and over 35,000 unfilled positions in Australia.

“.. By 2004 there would be about 180,000 unfilled Information and Communications Technology jobs unfilled in Australia. “

20 March 2001, The Australian

We realise


"Basic skills training for teachers is beginning to bite. But by and large, the integration of the technology into daily classroom practice, isn’t happening anything like fast enough...": Lord Puttnam T.E.S.

Newspoll77% of respondents see Education NO 1

issue before HealthKnowledge Nation - ALP

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Results Don't Just HappenCLC Vision

• Anywhere, Anytime Learning

• Knowledge Management• Technology

– Hardware– Software– Peripherals

• Communications– Network– Wireless connectivity– Internet– VPN– Technical

• Professional Development

• Business partners


“the art of creating value from an organisation’s intangible assets”

Karl Erik Sveiby

Knowledge Management

1. Creating and storing knowledge in repositories

2. Measuring the educational value of knowledge

3. Facilitating the transfer of knowledge

4. Creating a knowledge-sharing environment

Results Don't Just Happen1.Creating and storing knowledge in repositories

• JPC Internet/ Intranet • Connected Learning resources – An integrated technology learning

curriculum Digital curriculum content and resources available anywhere,

anytimeA web enabled Learning

Management system – Encarta Class Server• Personal /Public web folders, email• Conferencing Server• Share Point Team Services

Results Don't Just Happen2. Measuring the educational value of knowledge• Staff Professional Development to enable

students to become discerning users of information

• Information Literacy Knowledge Literacy• Digital Curriculum with assessment and

evaluation• Instant• Interactive• Accessible anywhere, anytime

• Quality assurance digital curriculum content • Student and Parental feedback – Market share

Results Don't Just Happen3. Facilitating the transfer of knowledge

• 3Com Gigabit network with 2000 concurrent connections

• Windows 2000 server pool• SAN implementation 2002• 3Com Radio connectivity – 1400 – 1900 by the

end 2001• 1800 Toshiba Notebooks and 150 desktops • 2 Megabit Internet connection• Proxy to control downloads, type of downloads,

access, filtering• Interactive Learning Centres in Primary and

Secondary Libraries• LAN telephony implementation 2002


• Windows 2000 Advanced Server for File and Printer Sharing

• IIS 5.0 for web hosting

• Internet Security and Acceleration Server

• Exchange 2000 Server

• Conferencing Server

• SQL Server 2000

• Encarta Class Server

• SMS 2.0

• Terminal Server to run applications off campus i.e. School Database

• Pcounter to Control Student Printing

• CDNET to share 70 CDROMS to school network

Results Don't Just HappenOur Technology

1. A Student and Staff Notebook program of 1800 computers

2. 200 Desktops that support resource centres, classrooms and administration

3. Radio connectivity –1450 connections/ 44 access points across campus

4. An integrated technology learning curriculum & Professional Development

5. Online digital curriculum and resources available anywhere, anytime

6. Complete VPN

Results Don't Just HappenClassroom Tools


Wireless Issues• Internet controls and bandwidth usage

• 1 gig backbone – 11Mb Wireless cards

• Auto sensing base stations

• Walls and steel – Wireless loves windows

• Stolen cards easy to detect

• Creation of content- able to be utilised on the Net – 11Mb no problem

• Quality of cards?

• Use of anonymous accounts unworkable

• Free software to enable hacking

Results Don't Just HappenOur Technology Vision

To create an anywhere, anytime school where parents, teachers, students and business partners are part of an interconnected learning community.


• Access to the College Intranet, email and digital curriculum and learning resources through www.myjpc.com – Community web site

• Professional Development and training

– Conceptual– Integrated– Certified– Developmental– Individualised

3. Facilitating the transfer of knowledge


• Why AAL?• A catalyst for change – engaged and

empowered learners• Significant changes in learning outcomes• A change that focuses on learning

• “An AAL program is about changing the dynamics, methodologies and outcomes of learning for students”

4. Why AAL?


An outcomes-based systematised and certified curriculum that incorporates five key elements in every session:

• fun • technology • the application of technology to everyday life • using technology tools for overall development -

creativity, logical thinking, lateral thinking, listening skills, general knowledge and life skills

• personal achievement and growth for every learner

Professional Development


Primary Curriculum


Secondary Curriculum


Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS) Certification

Certification

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JPC

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Digital Curriculum

Digital Curriculum

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Home

Internet


• The Intranet provides a publishing house for teacher and student sharing and presentation

• Our PR http://www.jpc.qld.edu.au website• Our intranet

http://intranet.jpc.qld.edu.au/il/home/• Microsoft Encarta Class Server -

http://encarta.jpc.qld.edu.au/EncartaClassServer/Signin.htm

• Our community site http://www.myjpc.com/ July 26, 2001

• Professional Development and training• Human resources and changing skill sets

4. Creating a knowledge-sharing environment

Results Don't Just Happenwww.myjpc.comA community web site that includes links to:• Co-curricula such as golf, hockey, rugby etc. • Family web sites, Email lists, Chat groups• College calendars• Study hints, Hot sites – educational, sporting, cultural,

financial• Virtual shopping mall - Advertising with discounts for

family members & advertising for family businesses• Community technology training sessions that include

certification such as the international drivers licence • An email account and web site for each family in addition

to student and staff school accounts• Web streaming of sporting and cultural activities • Student radio station


From a look and use Intranet to a collaborative online learning management system

Access from anywhere in the world• Interactive, dynamic digital content

with online assessments that can include instant results

• Integrated Heinemann Reed Publishing resources that have IP permission

• Parent access with their own password

• Net meeting/Team Services/ email and chat services

Results Don't Just HappenDigital Content

Demonstration

Intranet: http://intranet.jpc.qld.edu.au/il/home/

Encarta Class Server

Microsoft Encarta Class Server - Teacher.lnk


People• Chief Information Officers • Librarians – Knowledge Managers• Trainers• Content developers• Systems Managers & Technicians• Integrators• Curriculum developers• Quality assurors• Multimedia specialists• Web developers• Graphic designers• Video and Sound editors ….• Keeping Staff??


Teachers• Our teachers are in paradigm changes.

They require skills not only to use technology but also to become a learner themselves.

• Teachers now need to be able to:collaborate, architect, communicate clear

goals and targets, promote active learning , mentor- team work, make real life connections, work new audiences, produce spiral activities, remove barriers, promote creativity (artistic & thinking) and imagination and self reflect.


Many say we are -A technology rich school where anywhere,

anytime learning occurs using portable technologies , radio connectivity, Internet etc. etc. etc

or are we, as our students perceive us, simply

A contemporary school for the the 21st century ,a school for the kids of today where parents, teachers and students are connected learners, through an interconnected learning community

John Paul College


At John Paul College our vision realises we are working to prepare a new kind of student; that we are using brand new tools, for a life that we cannot clearly see or describe today; that embedded in this challenge are fantastic opportunities; and that teaching should and can be the most exciting profession on the planet.

Our Vision


Aidan McCarthy

John Paul College

[email protected]

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