Using the Ultranet for personalised learning.

1. PERSONALISING LEARNING
The more you know about your students
and their abilities, the greater the
opportunity to effectively plan, scaffold and
differentiate their learning.
How can the Ultranet enable teachers to
effectively plan and deliver personalised
learning?

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3. SOME DEFINITIONS
Individualization refers to instruction that is paced to the learning Teacher
needs of different learners. Learning goals are the same for all centric,
students, but students can progress through the material at different
grade level,
speeds according to their learning needs. For example, students
might take longer to progress through a given topic, skip topics that standards
cover information they already know, or repeat topics they need based
more help on.
High
Differentiation refers to instruction that is tailored to the learning
preferences of different learners. Learning goals are the same for all teacher
students, but the method or approach of instruction varies according to workload
the preferences of each student or what research has found works best
for students like them.
Personalization refers to instruction that is paced to learning needs,
tailored to learning preferences, and tailored to the specific interests of Student led,
different learners. In an environment that is fully personalized, the
ICT can
learning objectives and content as well as the method and pace may all
vary (so personalization encompasses differentiation and facilitate.
individualization).
Watch video by Barbara Bray and Kathleen McClaskey

4. Hands on Task
What is personalised learning?
• What does personalised learning
look like to you?
What
does it
look like? • In what ways are the teachers in
your school attending to the
different needs of students?
• Discuss at tables and on the
Design Space.

5. KEY IDEAS
Learners are ICT as a key
central enabler
Lifelong Communities of
learning collaboration
Personalising Education: from research to policy and practice Paper No. 11, September 2007
http://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/edulibrary/public/publ/research/publ/personalising-education-report.pdf

6. Learners Are
Central

7. LEARNERS ARE CENTRAL
Personalising education involves:
• a highly-structured approach that places the needs, interests
and learning styles of students at the centre.
• engaged learners who are informed and empowered through
student voice and choice.
• assessment that is related to meaningful tasks and includes
assessment for and from students.
• a focus on improving student outcomes for all and a
commitment to reducing the achievement gap.

10. What is Big Picture Learning? Watch a video

11. ICT as a
Key Enabler

12. ICT AS A KEY ENABLER
ICT
• allows each pupil greater diversity for learning.
• enhances interactivity between individual students and
individual teachers.
• provides a space for personalised, flexible learning
beyond the classroom walls.
• allows students to live locally whilst learning globally -
through the use of external resources accessed via the
world wide web.

13. Lifelong
Learning

14. LIFELONG LEARNING
Personalising education includes a commitment to:
• lifelong learning and the provision of flexible learning
environments.
• a range of educational pathways to meet the needs of all
students.

15. Community members being brought into schools for the emersion component of a unit to build a
stronger cultural understanding across the school.

16. Nangiloc Primary
sell orange juice and
ice blocks for profit
around the
community.
They have a strong
relationship with
the citrus growers
association, have to
advertise their
business and
calculate
expenses/profits
as well as grow the
fruit

17. Students in year 9 at Mordialloc College spend a term completing the ‘Mordialloc
Experience.’ For part of the term, they choose an organisation to complete community
service; for the second part of the term, they undertake a community engagement
project.

18. Communities of
Collaboration

19. COMMUNITIES OF COLLABORATION
A school embracing the concept of personalising education will:
• promote a ‘community of learning’ approach and cultivate
strong relationships between adults and students.
• develop and promote the notion of networks rather than
existing in isolation.
• have strong links with the home, community, local
institutions, business and services.

20. ePals

21. Blogging

22. Go North expeditions live with explorers and other schools

23. Hands On
Our Own Community
Using LinoIt to respond to the main ideas.

24. Learning Tasks
Groups Group students in variety of ways – VELS levels, interests, learning
styles.
Submission Encourage students to use a variety of learning methods to submit
their work – written, audio, video etc
Discussion Pose questions to gather data about students levels of understanding.
Student generating and critiquing questions – assessment as learning.
Journal Ongoing journal for students to identify goals and strategies to drive
learning. Opportunity for teachers to check in and communicate
individually with students.
Reference Target learning objects to students based on their individual needs or
interests.
Task Set home work tasks for individuals or groups based on goals. Set
offline tasks for groups.
Observation Three way reporting and communication with students and parents
via observations.
Watch video

25. Hands On
Learning Tasks
• Set up a discussion in Learning Tasks
• Assign a VELS level (eg:
Communication - Listening, Viewing
and Responding)
Consider
• How would you group students?
• What questions could you ask to
gather information?
• How can this be used to personalise
learning?

26. Get to know your students
Student Learner
eXpress Profile

27. Student Goals
• Video students reading for self
assessment.

28. Learning Portfolio

30. Data - to get to know your students

31. Online Reporting
– viewed by teachers, students and parents

32. Learner Profile

33. Learner Profile

34. Ultranet Spaces - Collaborative Communities
Promote a community of learning
• Blogs – allow students to share their views, publish their work and comment
on others.
• Wiki – students can work together in a space to create and collaborate .
• Message Board and Community Chat – ongoing conversations where all
students can easily have their say and discuss topics with others.
• Topic based spaces for students to explore and direct their own learning.
• Think about how to make your spaces Collaborate within a class or school
collaborative and engaging for
students. Collaborate across schools
Invite subject experts into the space

35. Class templates

36. Media Responses

37. Web Quests

38. Literacy and Numeracy Week
Challenge / Writer’s Workshop
Link

39. Topic based spaces for students
Link

40. Student Owned Spaces

42. Explore Collaborative Learning Spaces
• Sustainability Web Quest – 138858652
• i-Learn Human Body – 97125993
• Mill Park Secondary College Library – 4709954
• BSW Disposable Planet – 2810776
• LMR Literacy and Numeracy space – 119308309
• The Brain – 113827593
• Rangeview Bookclub – 94187915 (community space)