edna, digital education and me

Tuesday Aug 12, 2008

Western Australia map from Wikimedia Commons Wide ranging discussions with 12 participants from Department of Education and Training WA representing schooling, vocational education and training and adult/community education. Programs included Schools' Online Curriculum Services, Westone developer of K-12, training and career materials and Flexible Learning Advisory Group .

Inadequate and inequitable broadband access, with WA containing many of the most remote communities in the country
A need for distinction between administrative and learning purposes for ICT - focus on the teaching and learning as the driver rather than the technology
Professional learning opportunities and change management need with new digital learning platform for WA
Acute teacher shortage requires professional learning officers in classrooms and PD delivered without central support

Applied research into emerging technologies to enable systems to make informed decisions - eg what are effective tools for learning (including different stages of learning)
Continue 'sandpit' spaces to enable innovation, trialling and evaluation - system infrastructure is not geared to provide this
Investigate the feasibility of a 'web2tools' service - eg a database of new tools, why, what and how they could be used and a wizard that identifies a teaching and learning need and recommends tools and supports the teacher in its use
Investigate models for effective learning materials created by students for their peers (research supports this proposition). ECU Cybersummit is a good example

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Posted at 02:25PM Aug 12, 2008 by Mark Tranthim-Fryer |

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