The Network4Learning SeriesServices provided across the Network for Learning will enable us to re-think our ideas about how programmes of learning are developed and delivered, how assessment occurs, how we facilitate collaborative activity, how we personalise the learning experience, and how we develop both global and cyber-citizenship within these programmes. The Network for Learning will support teaching and learning activity that ensures that the outcomes for students are met, so that they become capable, competent, life-long learners, contributing to a productive and growing economy.
The whole purpose of implementing a Network for Learning is to support teaching and learning activity, and to ensure that the outcomes for students are met: that they become capable, competent, life-long learners. Underpinning this is the expectation that we will enable a 21st Century approach to the ways schools operate. This will require considerable changes to what happens in our school system at present.
The introduction of the Network for Learning will require a re-engineering of many of the currently accepted ways of organizing teaching and learning, including timetables, the organization of students into classes by age and confining ‘formal’ learning experiences to the hours of the school day. Services provided across the Network for Learning will enable us to re-think our ideas about how programmes of learning are developed and delivered, how assessment occurs, how we facilitate collaborative activity, how we personalise the learning experience, and how we develop both global and cyber-citizenship within these programmes.
At the teaching and learning level we will need to think about how learners can access their learning from places other than the school they happen to be attending, how they can access subjects not available in their local school, and participate in national or global projects, including virtual field trips. The role of a teacher will also change, bringing more specialization to the profession and catering for those who are competent classroom practitioners as well as those whose skills make them effective at teaching in an online environment. More of the teaching and learning that occurs at a system level is likely to become blended, with the Network for Learning becoming an environment for both the delivery channel, with the provision of resources and applications used to support learning, and the learning channel - where learners interact, create and share their experiences as a part of their learning.
Teaching and learning will become more genuinely data-driven, informed by the data gathered locally about individuals and classes, as well as by data that is aggregated at a national level. This will provide national profiles and benchmarks to guide teacher decisions about programme development. The use of ePortfolios will enable learners to ‘take their learning with them’ as a part of their life-long learning journey, from pre-school through to tertiary, meaning transitions between schools will be streamlined and more meaningful.
The speed and capacity of the high-speed network will enable greater engagement with interactive multimedia resources, simulations and participatory environments. This will make learning more immersive and more engaging for 21st century learners who are used to this sort of experience in so many other aspects of their lives. The Network for Learning will also provide significant benefits to teachers as a source of their own professional development. This may be through the development of their own Personal Learning Networks, or through participation in online courses and events designed to promote professional learning. Opportunities to earn accreditation and gain qualifications in this environment will increase, making professional learning more accessible and relevant in the future.
The Network for Learning will support teaching and learning activity that ensures that the outcomes for students are met, so that they become capable, competent, life-long learners, contributing to a productive and growing economy.
The Network4Learning SeriesServices provided across the Network for Learning will enable us to re-think our ideas about how programmes of learning are developed and delivered, how assessment occurs, how we facilitate collaborative activity, how we personalise the learning experience, and how we develop both global and cyber-citizenship within these programmes. The Network for Learning will support teaching and learning activity that ensures that the outcomes for students are met, so that they become capable, competent, life-long learners, contributing to a productive and growing economy.
The whole purpose of implementing a Network for Learning is to support teaching and learning activity, and to ensure that the outcomes for students are met: that they become capable, competent, life-long learners. Underpinning this is the expectation that we will enable a 21st Century approach to the ways schools operate. This will require considerable changes to what happens in our school system at present.
The introduction of the Network for Learning will require a re-engineering of many of the currently accepted ways of organizing teaching and learning, including timetables, the organization of students into classes by age and confining ‘formal’ learning experiences to the hours of the school day. Services provided across the Network for Learning will enable us to re-think our ideas about how programmes of learning are developed and delivered, how assessment occurs, how we facilitate collaborative activity, how we personalise the learning experience, and how we develop both global and cyber-citizenship within these programmes.
At the teaching and learning level we will need to think about how learners can access their learning from places other than the school they happen to be attending, how they can access subjects not available in their local school, and participate in national or global projects, including virtual field trips. The role of a teacher will also change, bringing more specialization to the profession and catering for those who are competent classroom practitioners as well as those whose skills make them effective at teaching in an online environment. More of the teaching and learning that occurs at a system level is likely to become blended, with the Network for Learning becoming an environment for both the delivery channel, with the provision of resources and applications used to support learning, and the learning channel - where learners interact, create and share their experiences as a part of their learning.
Teaching and learning will become more genuinely data-driven, informed by the data gathered locally about individuals and classes, as well as by data that is aggregated at a national level. This will provide national profiles and benchmarks to guide teacher decisions about programme development. The use of ePortfolios will enable learners to ‘take their learning with them’ as a part of their life-long learning journey, from pre-school through to tertiary, meaning transitions between schools will be streamlined and more meaningful.
The speed and capacity of the high-speed network will enable greater engagement with interactive multimedia resources, simulations and participatory environments. This will make learning more immersive and more engaging for 21st century learners who are used to this sort of experience in so many other aspects of their lives. The Network for Learning will also provide significant benefits to teachers as a source of their own professional development. This may be through the development of their own Personal Learning Networks, or through participation in online courses and events designed to promote professional learning. Opportunities to earn accreditation and gain qualifications in this environment will increase, making professional learning more accessible and relevant in the future.
The Network for Learning will support teaching and learning activity that ensures that the outcomes for students are met, so that they become capable, competent, life-long learners, contributing to a productive and growing economy.
The Network4Learning SeriesServices provided across the Network for Learning will enable us to re-think our ideas about how programmes of learning are developed and delivered, how assessment occurs, how we facilitate collaborative activity, how we personalise the learning experience, and how we develop both global and cyber-citizenship within these programmes. The Network for Learning will support teaching and learning activity that ensures that the outcomes for students are met, so that they become capable, competent, life-long learners, contributing to a productive and growing economy.
The whole purpose of implementing a Network for Learning is to support teaching and learning activity, and to ensure that the outcomes for students are met: that they become capable, competent, life-long learners. Underpinning this is the expectation that we will enable a 21st Century approach to the ways schools operate. This will require considerable changes to what happens in our school system at present.
The introduction of the Network for Learning will require a re-engineering of many of the currently accepted ways of organizing teaching and learning, including timetables, the organization of students into classes by age and confining ‘formal’ learning experiences to the hours of the school day. Services provided across the Network for Learning will enable us to re-think our ideas about how programmes of learning are developed and delivered, how assessment occurs, how we facilitate collaborative activity, how we personalise the learning experience, and how we develop both global and cyber-citizenship within these programmes.
At the teaching and learning level we will need to think about how learners can access their learning from places other than the school they happen to be attending, how they can access subjects not available in their local school, and participate in national or global projects, including virtual field trips. The role of a teacher will also change, bringing more specialization to the profession and catering for those who are competent classroom practitioners as well as those whose skills make them effective at teaching in an online environment. More of the teaching and learning that occurs at a system level is likely to become blended, with the Network for Learning becoming an environment for both the delivery channel, with the provision of resources and applications used to support learning, and the learning channel - where learners interact, create and share their experiences as a part of their learning.
Teaching and learning will become more genuinely data-driven, informed by the data gathered locally about individuals and classes, as well as by data that is aggregated at a national level. This will provide national profiles and benchmarks to guide teacher decisions about programme development. The use of ePortfolios will enable learners to ‘take their learning with them’ as a part of their life-long learning journey, from pre-school through to tertiary, meaning transitions between schools will be streamlined and more meaningful.
The speed and capacity of the high-speed network will enable greater engagement with interactive multimedia resources, simulations and participatory environments. This will make learning more immersive and more engaging for 21st century learners who are used to this sort of experience in so many other aspects of their lives. The Network for Learning will also provide significant benefits to teachers as a source of their own professional development. This may be through the development of their own Personal Learning Networks, or through participation in online courses and events designed to promote professional learning. Opportunities to earn accreditation and gain qualifications in this environment will increase, making professional learning more accessible and relevant in the future.
The Network for Learning will support teaching and learning activity that ensures that the outcomes for students are met, so that they become capable, competent, life-long learners, contributing to a productive and growing economy.
Ultra-fast, fibre-based networks have been supporting education in many parts of the world for a number of years already – and finally schools and education institutions in New Zealand will be able to experience the benefits of being connected to such a network.
The infrastructure layer of the Network for Learning will provide the ‘highway’ across which all of the services that support the teaching and learning will be delivered. Students and teachers want easy, reliable access to their resources and to be able participate in online communities and forums. This is the 2nd video in this series.
REANNZ Chief Executive Donald Clark opened the 2010 Symposium with his own story of using technology over the last decade or more, to illustrate the title of his presentation 'The geeks shall inherit the earth'. Donald includes a demonstration of connecting a school to high speed broadband, with the message that connectivity must be fast, open, cheap and ubiquitous.
