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!Connecting ICT and Action:
Personalised Learning for Diverse Learners
Greg O’Connor July 2014
CEO Melbourne
The Myth of Average
Todd Rose
designed for AVERAGE
design for the EDGES
ban the AVERAGE
Chris Windsor / Getty Images one s
ize fit
s all
Adjustable Seat for Learning / Personalisation?
Todd Rose at TEDxSonomaCounty!
design to the EDGES
designed for the average?
technology
Today’s Schedule!!Session 1!Background information and tools!
Session 2!Group work - Guided exploration and discussion!
Session 3!In school groups or pairs - development of action plan !!Present you plan!
Horizon Report 2014
Horizon Report 2014Key Trends!
• Rethink the roles of teachers!• Shift to Deeper Learning Approaches!
!Significant Challenges!
• Authentic Learning Opportunities!• Integrating Personalised Learning!
!Important Developments!
• BYOD!• Cloud Computing
a way to allow students to pursue!their education according to!their individual needs
Personalisation
Fairness?
Dave Edyburn
Research on fairness indicates that most adults’ notions of fairness are arrested at the
kindergarten level: Everyone gets the same thing. However, the
functional definition of fairness is that everyone gets what they need
What is average?
Edyburn (2006) http://www.uwm.edu/~edyburn/L%26L2006.pdf
representation
Promote resourceful & knowledgeable learners!
by !providing options in the
way information is offered and understood
representation
• Text to speech!• Vocabulary acquisition!• Comprehension!• OCR!• Audio!• Video!• QR Codes!• eBooks!• Augmentative reality !!
action & expression
Promote strategic, !goal-directed learners!
by !providing options for action
and expression
action & expression
• Word prediction!• Handwriting recognition!• Speech recognition!• Audio recording!• Video!• Note taking
executive functions
Promote strategic, !goal-directed learners!
by !providing options for executive functions
and the teacher said
you can take notes
executive functions
• Video masking!• Note synchronisation !• Mind mapping!• Image use!• Text auto summarisation!• Citation support!• The cloud!• Reminders!
!!!
engagement
engagement
• Provide options for recruiting interest!
• Provide options for sustaining effort and persistence!
• Provide options for self-regulation!!
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#event horizonThe point of no return for education and technology
if there is an inevitable danger coming towards you, move towards it. Fullan
assistive technology is too powerful not to
have a plan*
*adapted from Michael Fullan, (2013) Startosphere: Integrating Technology, Pedagogy, and Change Knowledge
FULLAN 2013
the most crucial factor != you
filter, sieve, assess
Nevit Dilmen http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AChild_01546_Nevit.jpg
SAMR!Model
4-level approach to selecting, using, and
evaluating technology in education(Ruben Puentedura)Substitution
Augmentation
Modification
Redefinition
Enha
ncem
ent
Tran
sfor
mat
ion
!SUBSTITUTION
Wordprocessors PDF readers Browsers
!AUGMENTATION
eBooks OCR
!MODIFICATION
Alternative formats: Convert to audio Video creation eBook Creation !
!REDEFINITION
QR Codes Augmentative Reality Wearables Alternative assessment
Disruptive Innovation
Sandpits: Guided exploration and discussion
sandpits
1.Myth of Average!
2.Horizon report!
3. Assistive technology tools - literacy support!
4.UDL/SETT/Rubric!
5. App smack down!
!!
attention span of around 15 minutes before significant
levels of mind wandering occur
sandpits
Myth of Average!
Go to this website and complete the lesson!
http://bit.ly/mythaveragelesson!
!!
sandpits
Horizon Report 2014!
Watch the video. What trends, challenges and key technologies will have an impact on your school in the next 12 months?!
http://bit.ly/horizonreport2014!
!
sandpits
Literacy Support Tools!
What tools could you explore to design to the edges in your classroom? !
bit.ly/litsupport!
sandpits
UDL/SETT/Rubric!
Ban the Average. Identify a student. Ask the SETT questions. Using the rubric review a literacy support tool you have considered. !
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sandpits
App Smackdown!
Share an app or Google extension. 2 minutes per smackdown.!
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prepare!not !
repair
So What? !!
What? !!
What next? !!
What? !!
What have I learnt?
So What? !!
What? !!
What next? !!
So What? !!
What does this mean for
my classroom?
So What? !!
What? !!
What next? !!
What next? !!
What are my next steps?
Give it a go! Start. Go. Begin.
What next? !!
What are my next steps?
only 3% of adults have clear, written, specific, measurable, time-bounded goals, and by
every statistic, they accomplish ten times as much as people
with no goals at all
Brian Tracy
Jason Gibson & Jason Caroll
specific clear goal/s!
measurable!
time-bounded !
Provide printed material as digitised text to allow for text to speech technology!!Unit 3, History worksheets digitised and provided to students!!Week 5, Term 3 !
institutions will try and preserve the problem to which they are the solution
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