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Transforming a learning curriculum Gideon Williams Presented at Moodlemoot Edinburgh 2014 www.moodlemoot.ie
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Transforming a Learning Curriculum
Gideon Williams @gideonwilliams Perins School
A Brief History…
Small Rural SecondaryAlresford, Hampshire11-16 school1,100 students72 teaching staff
Setting the Scene
• All teaching staff with laptop (3yr cycle)
• Digital projectors in every room
• All users with school/home email access
• Moodle (VLE) since 2004
• Mahara eportfolios since 2007
• A 1:1 notebook scheme for students (98% uptake)
• Managed site wide wireless network
• OneDrive on notebooks
• Flexible broadband filtering (100Mb)
• Led by a Headteacher willing to take risks
What is Transformational Learning?
Enquiry based and challenge learning
Higher order thinking skills
collaboration reflection, evaluation
“flipped” learning
6Rs PLTS
21st
Century tools
Digital pedagogy
samr
We want students who leave Perins
Independence
Resilient
Relationships Balanced
Achieving potential
To have skills for Life Long learning
Series of Projects2 x 2hrs per week
Assessed through PLTSNot subject focused
Delivered by 8 different specialists
How it works?
• All of the courses are created on……
• Students evidence their work via….
• ..Using a range of tools but focusing on..
2013 Projects Titles…
Year 7
• Create a Nation
• 7 Billion Ideas
• Things that go Bump in the Night
• Ignore it, Share it, Solve it
• Face Bug
Year 8
• An Inspector Calls
• Product Wars
• Human Rights, Human Wrongs
• Sensational Science
• Trash Fashion
Setting Off….
Dashboard and Links
Signposts…
Rewards
The Moodle Courses..
Use the wide range of Activities..
• Checklists (for independent learning)
• Glossaries (for modelling)
• Databases (for peer reviews)
• Links (to Web2 tools)
• Web pages (embedding Help video)
• Questionnaires (Surveys and Feedback)
• Question poll (Project choice)
• Forums (Discussions and marked reviews)
• Gallery (snapshots of Mahara pages)
Transforming the VLE
Transforming the VLE
The Students work….
• Is creative
• Is personalised
• Is worked on between lessons
• Is peer reviewed
• Is fed back to
• Is honest
• Is their own best efforts!
Thanks for listening
Gideon WilliamsDirector of eLearningPerins School@gideonwilliams