This document discusses reframing LIFE as a preferred online resource for teachers and students. LIFE aims to enrich learning environments by enabling collaboration, communication, and creation. It provides digital tools and spaces for students to demonstrate and track their learning. Teachers can use LIFE to activate learning, provide feedback, and network with colleagues. Professional development in 2014 will help teachers build skills in using LIFE.
1. LIFE is about learning and
Learning Is For Everyone
LIFE Focused Work
for 2014
Reframe LIFE as a
preferred quality
resource
for teachers to enrich
and shape learning
environments
2. Reframe LIFE as a preferred quality resource
for teachers to enrich and shape learning environments
Objectives of Focused Work
Teachers and students will favour this resource for collaboration, communication and
creation to support the principles and practices of effective learning and teaching
described through the model of pedagogy.
The use of this resource by teachers and students across schools to:
• Collaborate between teacher and teacher, student and student and student and
teacher in developing and choosing appropriate tools in LIFE to support learning
progress against the achievement standard of the curriculum.
• Communicate between teacher and teacher, student and student and student
and teacher using tools in LIFE to demonstrate learning and cycles of feedback to
move learning forward
• Creation and construction of knowledge by teachers and students using tools in
LIFE to demonstrate understanding and provide evidence of learning progress
against the achievement standard.
• Students are acting as instructional and supportive resources for other students
• Teachers find opportunities to network with other teachers to share online
resources for planning and teaching.
3. Why LIFE?
LIFE is used as a key resource by teachers to technology enrich and
shape learning environments enabling progress to be personalised,
visible, explicit and responsive for each student.
Key activities of LIFE resource activate collaboration, communication
and creation and promote a learning environment that enables
active, interactive and personalised engagement of each student in
their learning.
4. What benefits and opportunities
does LIFE provide?
Students will have access to online
spaces and resources:
to collate and showcase their
learning
to reflect on progress and
success
to access a personalised
curriculum
to demonstrate learning
through the use of
collaboration; communication
and creation tools
to be resources for one another
to embed web 2 tools to
demonstrate learning
Teachers will have access to
online spaces and resources:
to activate student learning
to provide and gather
feedback about progress and
success
to network with colleagues
to technology enrich and
shape learning environments
to embed web 2 tools to
activate learning
10. Professional Learning for LIFE in 2014
Professional Learning in 2014 will be provided from School Service
Centre North and will include: Skill development events, Networking
and sharing workshops, Masterclasses and strategic in-school
support.
11. This site provides the BCE
Community with resources to
build skills and opportunity to
network ideas in an online
environment.
You will find in this site:
• Ideas on how to use LIFE in
the classroom
• Youtube clips and
documents to build skill
• How to’s…
• Forums
• Resources for LIFE
implementation in your
school
This site provides a collaborative
space for schools, teachers and
students to share ideas and
work together. To build a
collaborative space you will first
need to apply for a space. This
form is found on the site page.
Notas do Editor
An LMS is a resource to support learning and teaching in a contemporary online environment. The LMS being used is called LIFE. LIFE is a commercial, ‘off-the-shelf’ learning and teaching product that includes a defined set of functionalities. It currently provides an easy-to-use, safe and innovative online learning and teaching environment for teachers and students, that supports access to content and collaboration spaces via a range of online resources.
LIFE enables teacher access to current curriculum, support material and tools to facilitate planning for learning and teaching. LIFE enables teachers and students to personalise, access, collaborate and communicate in a variety of ways. LIFE also provides functionality to support student assessment and tracking, monitoring and reporting.
