1. Leading E Competent Schools – Implementing Digital Learning Materials
Share many similarities with Canadians – environment and education
Share similarities in our challenges to achieve this – equity, access, funding and security
Background – large school district near Toronto – 55,000
Developed an ICT strategic plan – share projects where we focussed on change in the classroom
Anita Townsend – Educational Administration Consultant
Ontario, Canada

2. ICT Strategic Plan
Purpose – to plan system change for the effective use of ICT in all schools
Consultation process – all stakeholders
Development team
Pilot projects

3. Paradigm Shift from Traditional Classroom to Classroom of the 21 Century
If you teach today the way you taught them yesterday you rob them of tomorrow
Changes in our classrooms is a paradigm shift
Easier for some than others
Came into teaching when access to tech was limited
Left hand side - no

4. THE PARADIGM SHIFT The 21 Century Learning Environment
Digital curriculum content - instructional strategies
Web 2.0 collaboration tools
Interactive whiteboards
Mobile devices
Formative Assessment
E - Portfolios
Shift involves every thing about how we teach and learn – not only is it about the type of content we offer students but what technology devices we can use – one technology device does not fit all teaching situations nor does one of the many web 2.0 tools fit – combination between student needs pedagogy and the content you are teaching
New ideas
New ideas
New ideas

5. ICT Strategic Plan Five Themes
Accessibility
Equity
Safety-Filtering
Professional Development – to support teachers with effective use of ICT
Sustainability
Needed to be very focused on this integration of technology
school system created a very specific plan to change how students learned in our school
Created with consultation from all departments and community sectors business and parents community groups that worked in the schools
Came up with 5 areas to be addressed

6. ICT Strategic Plan - Pilots Projects Catalysts for Change
Digital learning materials – Interactive Learning Platforms
Pearson Connect – Interactive E Texts
Global Collaborative Learning projects – Global Teenager
Worked with Pearson Publishing an international publisher in over 150 countries around the world to try out in some of our schools their on line learning resources, - 5 subject areas – research project – in the conference book.
Other an opportunity for teachers to explore the GCP – different approach to online learning materials
Looking at systemic change

7. Pearson Connect
Five content areas – Math, Science, Literacy, Geography and History
Content designed by teachers, supports curriculum expectations, approved by the Ministry of Education, credible and reliable
Interactive – allows for student and teacher modification and collaboration
Content updated by publisher
Access anywhere, anytime
Cost for online access
Not only Pearson
Credible and reliable – accurate facts within the subject disciplines
Interactive – add notes, highlight, put in pictures and video links, share with other students - becomes a personalized text book
Content updated every year

8. Research Design Teacher Support Student Engagement survey
Teachers’ technology use
Teacher and student focus groups
Teacher Support
Orientation session
Release time for planning
Wiki

9. Teacher Comments
Overall increase in student engagement during class activities Boy’s in the class were more participatory Impact on lower achieving students – allowed more teacher time and student interaction with the material Increase in homework completion Increase in detail in student work Shift in teacher role in the classroom
Research report that was written in conference booklet
Research this year – on academic achievement
Could add voice over for lower achieving students –
Shift in role – to a coach more individualizing
Easier fro their planning – all in one place

10. Student Comments
Felt more connected to their work Centralized area to access their work Access anytime anywhere – no books to take home More class participation – particularly in group work

11. Easy to Use

12. Global Collaborative Learning
2.0 Information and Communication Technologies are used in order to foster communication and collaboration
Tasks or problems to be solved are real, meaningful action oriented projects – based on themes and issues
Links to curriculum expectations, multidisciplinary
Prepares students to become literate and responsible members of the global community
Content created by students
Different – content is not provided – designed by students
Teacher needs to find links to the curriculum
Issues problems of themes
Students live and work in the future with those from different cultures – no more borders

13. Global Teenager Project
Global issues problems or themes
Learning circle format
Ten weeks for each project
Monitored
Research based questions
Collective wisdom and problem solving
Advantages is monitored – coordinator in each country who supports teachers – working here in