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The Australian Digital Education Revolution
Kelvin Baird Alison Borland Ronald Borland Celia Canning Alan DrakesmithDavid EddieDuncan GillespieDouglas Jones Amanda MarrinanJoe Peter Mazzarella Karen Swift Wilma Withers Jason Zagami
Queensland Society for Information Technology in Education
Australian Council for Computers in Education
International Society for Technology in Education
Canada: Vancouver
USA: Seattle
USA: San Francisco
Alan, Duncan and Celia - National Curriculum and the DERJoe, Kelvin and Doug - One to one and the DERDave, Ron - Online learning and the NBNKaren and Alison - Approaches to Professional DevelopmentAmanda and Wilma - What the DER looks like in the classroom
Australian National Curriculum
ICT Implications
History• State based Curriculum
• 1989 Adelaide Declaration on Schooling
• 1990s - 2000s Drive for National Curriculum
• 2008 Agreement
• 2008 NAPLAN begins
3 Phases
•K-10 and 11-12 separate
•Phase 1 - English, Maths, Science, History
•Phase 2 - Geography, Languages, Arts
•Phase 3 - “including” design and technology, health and physical education, ICT, economics, business and civics and citizenship.
Phase 1•March 2010
Draft Curriculum Documents
•Online Consultation
• Pilot Schools trialing curriculum
• August 2010 re-drafted documents published for K-10
•October 2010 for re-drafted documents published for 11-12
Ten general capabilities
•literacy
•numeracy
•ICT
•thinking skills
•creativity
•intercultural activities
•teamwork
•social competence
•ethical behaviour
•self-management
ICT Implications• English - “multi-modal /
digital focus”
•Maths - “technology should be used for teaching and learning situations”
• Science - “Information and communication technologies (ICT) are relevant to the teaching and learning in a large part of the Curriculum”
ICT Implications
•“The decision about using technology in assessment programs is not within the province of the curriculum, jurisdictional assessment agencies will make that decision.”
•Development of curriculum for ICT as a subject is some years away
ICT Implications• There is an
expectation that students and teachers have access to the necessary ICT resources
•DER - Digital Education Revolution
•NBN - National Broadband Network
Motivations
•Comparibility and transferability
• Scalability
•Consultative Process to improve on the Draft
Issues and Concerns
• Subject based with a half nod to 21C learning as a second tier
• Levels of Achievement still attached to years K-12
•Heavy in prescribed content
• Timeframe for feedback and revision
USA - Funding• “Democratic”
• Inconsistent priorities
• A lot of local say
•Many pockets of excellent practice
• Emphasis on STEM
USA - Curriculum• State based
standardised assessment
•District based curriculum approaches
• School Board influences on curriculum
•Concern of heavy emphasis on teaching for the test
Canada
•Funding de-centralised like the USA
•Curriculum Province based
•10% of Year 7-12 students take at least one online unit in British Columbia
•Everything came with bacon