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Connecting ICT and Action:
Personalised Learning for Diverse
Learners
Greg O’Connor
July 2014
CEO Melbourne

2. presentation
bit.ly/ceomelbourne

3. Resources
bit.ly/ceomelbourne14

4. The Myth of Average
Todd Rose

5. designed for AVERAGE

6. ban the AVERAGE
design for the EDGES

7. Chris Windsor / Getty Images
one size fits all

8. Adjustable Seat for Learning / Personalisation?
Todd Rose at TEDxSonomaCounty!

9. design to the EDGES

10. designed for the average?

11. technology

12. Today’s Schedule!
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Session 1!
Background information and tools!
Session 2!
Group work - Guided exploration and discussion!
Session 3!
In school groups or pairs - development of action
plan !
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Present you plan!

13. Horizon Report 2014

14. Horizon Report 2014
Key Trends!
• Rethink the roles of teachers!
• Shift to Deeper Learning Approaches!
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Significant Challenges!
• Authentic Learning Opportunities!
• Integrating Personalised Learning!
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Important Developments!
• BYOD!
• Cloud Computing

15. Personalisation
a way to allow students to pursue!
their education according to!
their individual needs

16. Fairness?
Research on fairness indicates
that most adults’ notions of
fairness are arrested at the
kindergarten level: Everyone gets
the same thing. However, the
functional definition of fairness is
that everyone gets what they need
Dave Edyburn

17. What is average?
Edyburn (2006) http://www.uwm.edu/~edyburn/L%26L2006.pdf

18. universal design for learning
www.cast.org/udl

19. bit.ly/litsupport

20. Promote resourceful &
knowledgeable learners!
by !
providing options in the
way information is offered
and understood
representation

21. representation
• Text to speech!
• Vocabulary acquisition!
• Comprehension!
• OCR!
• Audio!
• Video!
• QR Codes!
• eBooks!
• Augmentative reality !
!

22. Promote strategic, !
goal-directed learners!
by !
providing options for action
and expression
action & expression

23. action & expression
• Word prediction!
• Handwriting recognition!
• Speech recognition!
• Audio recording!
• Video!
• Note taking

24. Promote strategic, !
goal-directed learners!
by !
providing options for
executive functions
executive functions

25. and the teacher said
you can take notes

26. executive functions
• Video masking!
• Note synchronisation !
• Mind mapping!
• Image use!
• Text auto summarisation!
• Citation support!
• The cloud!
• Reminders!
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27. engagement

28. engagement
• Provide options for recruiting
interest!
• Provide options for sustaining
effort and persistence!
• Provide options for self-regulation
!
!!

29. #event horizon
The point of no return for
education and technology

30. if there is an inevitable danger coming towards
you, move towards it. Fullan

31. assistive technology is
too powerful not to
have a plan*
*adapted from Michael Fullan, (2013) Startosphere: Integrating Technology, Pedagogy, and
Change Knowledge

32. FULLAN 2013

34. the most crucial factor !
= you

35. SETT Framework
www.joyzabala.com/

36. Nevit Dilmen http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AChild_01546_Nevit.jpg
filter, sieve, assess

38. SAMR!
Model
4-level approach to
selecting, using, and
evaluating technology
in education
Redefinition
Modification
Augmentation
Substitution (Ruben Puentedura)
Enhancement
Transformation

39. !
SUBSTITUTION
Wordprocessors
PDF readers
Browsers

40. !
AUGMENTATION
eBooks
OCR

41. !
MODIFICATION
Alternative formats:
Convert to audio
Video creation
eBook Creation
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42. !
QR Codes
Augmentative Reality
Wearables
Alternative assessment
REDEFINITION

43. Disruptive Innovation

45. Sandpits: Guided exploration and
discussion

46. sandpits
1. Myth of Average!
2. Horizon report!
3. Assistive technology tools - literacy support!
4. UDL/SETT/Rubric!
5. App smack down!
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47. attention span of
around 15 minutes
before significant
levels of mind
wandering occur

48. sandpits
Myth of Average!
Go to this website and complete the lesson!
http://bit.ly/mythaveragelesson!
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49. sandpits
Horizon Report 2014!
Watch the video. What trends, challenges and
key technologies will have an impact on your
school in the next 12 months?!
http://bit.ly/horizonreport2014!
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50. sandpits
Literacy Support Tools!
What tools could you explore to design to the
edges in your classroom? !
bit.ly/litsupport!

51. sandpits
UDL/SETT/Rubric!
Ban the Average. Identify a student. Ask the
SETT questions. Using the rubric review a
literacy support tool you have considered. !
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52. sandpits
App Smackdown!
Share an app or Google extension. 2 minutes
per smackdown.!
!

53. prepare!
not !
repair

54. So What?
!!
What?
!!
What next?
!!
What?
!!
What
have I
learnt?

55. So What?
!!
What?
!!
What next?
!!
So What?
!!
What does
this mean for
my
classroom?

56. So What?
!!
What?
!!
What next?
!!
!! What are my
What next?
next steps?

57. Give it a go! Start. Go. Begin.

60. What next?
!!
What are my
next steps?

61. only 3% of adults have clear,
written, specific, measurable,
time-bounded goals, and by
every statistic, they accomplish
ten times as much as people
with no goals at all
Brian Tracy

62. Jason Gibson & Jason Caroll

63. specific clear goal/s!
measurable!
time-bounded !

64. Provide printed material as
digitised text to allow for text
to speech technology!
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Unit 3, History worksheets
digitised and provided to
students!
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Week 5, Term 3 !

65. bit.ly/sharegoal

66. institutions will try and preserve the
problem to which they are the solution
Cathy Davidson (2011)

68. presentation
bit.ly/ceomelbourne

69. Resources
bit.ly/ceomelbourne14

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grego@spectronics.com.au
twitter.com/gregoconnor
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