Talk given at the University of Bristol Festival of Education, June 2012, as part of the launch of the Learning Warehouse platform

1. The impact of Learning Power
at Bushfield Primary School
Simon Buckingham Shum
Chair of Governors, Bushfield School
Visiting Fellow, Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol
Senior Lecturer & Assoc. Director (Technology),
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Co-Founder, LearningEmergence.net

2. The original University of Bristol research project that
started it all… What makes children good learners?
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3. …translated from academia into practical training
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4. …translated from academia into practical training
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10. Pupils place their logos
on the Managing
Distractions scale 1-4

12. “Collaborating
Muscles” are broken
down into constituent
practices

13. Noticing muscles,
Wondering muscles
and Linking muscles,
combined in a problem
solving strategies
poster

14. Since adopting
Learning Power
in 2009,
Bushfield has
been one of the
fastest and most
effective schools
to embed BLP
into its daily life
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http://bushfield.wordpress.com/2010/06/13/bushfield-on-the-leading-edge-of-learning

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http://bushfield.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/guy-claxton-art-costa-visit

16. 6 month TLO audit of BLP embedding
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http://bushfieldschool.net/learning/BLP-Nov2009.html

17. Ofsted 2010: HMIs recognise dispositional impact
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http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/sbs/2010/07/learning-skills-impact-ofsted-inspection

18. Impact of BLP @Bushfield?
Teachers learn what it
feels like to give much Visitors regularly comment on
more autonomy to pupils how well pupils can work
independently and in groups
Self-regulation means we can
explore inquiry-based learning
with more confidence
We have a language for
learning which is part of what
it means to learn and teach at
Bushfield The language spills out from
the classroom into other
contexts, inc. home
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See also The Learning Powered School, by Guy Claxton 2012

19. Going deeper with Learning Power…
How to assess personal and
collective Learning Power more
systematically?
What happens when
you apply Learning
Power to the
curriculum?... Personal
Inquiry
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20. Yr6 mapping BLP
learning muscles
to ELLI dimensions

21. Yr6 mapping BLP
learning muscles
to ELLI dimensions

22. Now piloting ELLI with Yr 6, in
conjunction with personalised AIPs
“Authentic Inquiry Projects”

23. Scaffolding authentic inquiry with a blog:
OU/Bristol’s EnquiryBlogger adds ‘learning
plugins’ inc. ELLI
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24. Scaffolding authentic inquiry with a blog:
OU/Bristol’s EnquiryBlogger adds ‘learning
plugins’ inc. ELLI
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25. Teacher’s dashboard for EnquiryBlogger
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26. towards...
“Learning Warehouse 3.0”
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27. Learning Warehouse 2.0
User experience:
Research-validated assessment tools
Researcher interface
Learning Communities
Analytics:
Real time ELLI Analytics reports
Bespoke research reports
Datasets:
>40,000 ELLI profiles
(data from other hosted apps)

28. Learning Warehouse 2.0
Learning App Store
Learning Communities
Learning Analytics
Data Sets

29. Learning Warehouse 2.0 (3.0)
Learning App Store
Learning Communities
Collective Intelligence
Learning Analytics
System Simulations
Recommendation Engines
Data Sets + Data Streams

30. ELLIment: scaling up ELLI mentoring online
Thomas Ullman, KMi: http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/ullmann/projects/ELLIMent 30

31. ELLI-based analytics for a social learning
platform
http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/SocialLearnResearch

32. Could we generate an ELLI profile not from what
you say, but from what you actually do when
you’re learning?
How I see myself as Learning Analytics
a learner through on what I do as a
ELLI self-report… learner…
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33. Using ELLI dimensions to classify online activity
§ Time-spent in different parts of applications
§ Might repeated attempts to pass an online test load
onto Resilience?
§ Might the sharing of good resources from eclectic
domains load onto Meaning Making?
§ Discourse analytics to detect ‘exploratory talk’ and
argumentation in online spaces
§ Might the presence of questioning and challenging in
discourse load onto Critical Curiosity?
§ Social network analytics
§ Might different SNA patterns in different contexts load
onto Learning Relationships?
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34. Modelling complex learning systems
Can we model learning systems in
which we vary differences in agents’
learning power and other key
variables?
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35. To join the global community…
LearningEmergence.net
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