1. Innovations in Teaching and Learning —
the NSW Journey
Raju Varanasi, Director, NSW Curriculum & Learning Innovation Centre

2. NSW CLIC — Services and Products
Raju Varanasi, Director

3. A new dynamic in the classroom...
• Quality learning design
• Flexibility of delivery
• Engagement
• Authenticity
• Collaboration
• Competition
Raju Varanasi, Director

4. Data to inform engagement
Raju Varanasi, Director

5. Data to inform engagement
Raju Varanasi, Director

6. Leveraging success
• Use knowledge gained from MuM
• Focus on specific syllabus content
• Rapid development
• Very popular with students —
100,000+ visitors
For example:
Raju Varanasi, Director

7. City of Fear
Syllabus – History for 10 to 14-year-olds
• Engagement — you’re immersed
• Authenticity — students working with original documents and
photos to conduct genuine research — they’re learning
historiography. Students learn about 19th century Sydney society
in the context of solving a mystery about an outbreak of bubonic
plague — yes, it really happened.
• Format easily adaptable for individual,
collaborative, group or assignment activity.
Raju Varanasi, Director

8. Digital Dilemma
Syllabus — Digital Citizenship for 14 to 16-year-olds — Your digital
footprint
•Engagement — you’re immersed in a music festival
•Authenticity — Players must make decisions in a simulated social
network — Tracebook — and deal with the consequences of their
decisions.
•Format easily adaptable
for individual, collaborative,
group or assignment activity.
Raju Varanasi, Director

9. The Taste of Danger
Syllabus — Food Technology and Science for 12 to 16-year-olds
•Engagement — you’re immersed — in a laboratory, a hospital
and a café.
•Authenticity — students working with current health protocols and
health documents. They track down the cause of a food poisoning
outbreak and make decisions about how to deal with it.
•Format easily adaptable for individual,
collaborative, group
or assignment activity.
Raju Varanasi, Director

10. The Digital Education Revolution NSW journey
What were our teachers and students faced with?
Raju Varanasi, Director

11. The DER journey to date
What we provided...
Wraps — content and skills
Tools4U — tools
UCreate — process
Now add teacher professional learning
?
User generated resources
Now?
?
Student generated learning resources
Raju Varanasi, Director

12. Teacher capacity building
We have the resources, now we need to build teacher capacity…
Publicly available courses Internally available courses
Digital Citizenship GeoGebra for beginners
Creating a laptop wrap Digital stories for early learners
Build a personal learning Using the Intel Visual Ranking Tool
network for higher order thinking
Raju Varanasi, Director

13. Learner centred awards
Digital Art Digital Story Short Film Web Design Greeting Animation Radio News
Awards Awards Awards Awards Card Design Awards Awards
Awards
Principal Major Sponsors Supporting Sponsors In association with
Sponsor
Raju Varanasi, Director

14. A winning entry…
From these .. to this ..

15. Digital Citizenship
Raju Varanasi, Director

16. So, how do I find all this?
http://www.tale.edu.au
Raju Varanasi, Director

17. Point to point collaboration solutions
• A suite of video conference cameras, desktop sharing software and
IWBs in all schools
• Adobe Connect enterprise solution
• Desktop videoconferencing
• Virtual selective high school
• Virtual gifted and talented primary classes
• Remote 1:1 literacy intervention
• Future - Speech pathology, adult literacy, early childhood
screening
Raju Varanasi, Director

18. 1:1 remote literacy intervention
Royal Far West School
• Needed to deliver ongoing intervention support to students in
remote schools
• Framework design that can be repurposed for different intervention
strategies
• Literacy package rendered in Flash within an Adobe Connect pod
• Intervention delivered to the student’s classroom
• Expertise in metropolitan areas supporting remote communities
Raju Varanasi, Director

19. Royal Far West School — SOLVE-IT
User guides [pdf 589KB]
wall chart [pdf 229KB]

20. Challenge – “natural classroom” collaboration
Multipoint to Multipoint ‘crowd’ collaboration —
• ‘iSee’ used in an immersive learning platform
• Natural classroom communication
• Active collaboration rather than consumption of online content
• Students immersed with high definition spatial audio and live
webcam video instead of avatars
• Equity of access — anywhere, anytime
• Live, rather than summative data
• Everything can be saved and
replayed from any perspective
Raju Varanasi, Director

21. Contact
Raju Varanasi, Director
raju.varanasi@det.nsw.edu.au
www.clic.det.nsw.edu.au
www.TaLe.edu.au
Raju Varanasi, Director