Implementing a BYOD program at your school is only the beginning of a journey that should change teaching and learning. A personal device will only make a difference if the implementation includes pedagogical and curriculum review that focusses on inquiry learning and enables individualisation. This session outlines an implementation that incorporates an approach to inquiry learning through a lens of the Australian Curriculum.

1. June
Wall
EMPOWERING STUDENT
LEARNING THROUGH
SUSTAINED INQUIRY
eLearning and Library Consultant
june@junewall.com.au
@junewall

2. WHAT DOES A BYOD IMPLEMENTATION
MEAN FOR YOUR SCHOOL?
TEACHING AND LEARNING AND THE
AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM

3. WHY ARE SCHOOLS IMPLEMENTING
“BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE” (BYOD)?
 Financial
 Personalisation
 Link to 21c learning
 Student control
 The advent of the cloud and the journey to the future
(NSW Government, 2013)
Implementation routes should be reflected in developing our
teaching.
Professional learning
Pedagogy
Practice

4. EXPLORE THE IDEAS OF:
1. Inquiry learning
2.Design thinking
3.Action research

5. INQUIRY
“investigative
process that
engages students
in answering
questions, solving
real-world
problems,
confronting
issues, or
exploring personal
interests (Pappas
& Tepe 2002)
“a relationship
between
thinking skills
and content”
(Stripling 2003)

6. INQUIRY AND 21ST CENTURY SKILLS
 Inquiry:
 requires critical and creative thinking.
 should guide learners into thinking about their prior knowledge related
to the topic of interest.
 is an active process.
 should go beyond simply finding an answer to engage learners in
questioning, reflection, thinking about how and what they learned, and
ultimately, the next step in the investigative process.
 should relate to the real world and have applications to the life
experiences of learners.
 is a social experience and should engage learners in collaborative
learning. (Pappas 2009)
 engages learners in constructing their own new understandings.

7. INQUIRY LEARNING
Lupton, p.3

8. INQUIRY PROCESS

9. Wondering where
to start?
WONDERING WHERE TO START…
Involve children in inquiry based learning
BE INTENTIONAL
ASK PRODUCTIVE QUESTIONS

10. INQUIRY LEARNING AND WEB TOOLS
Web tools to support inquiry-based learning
http://eduwebinar.com.au/web-tools-to-support-inquiry-based-learning

11. SCOPE AND SEQUENCE
http://eduwebinar.com.au/australian-curriculum-inquiry-skills-scope-and-sequence

12. Design
Thinking
Design Thinking Toolkit

13. ACTION RESEARCH
 Action research is ‘bottom up’ research that is
undertaken by the practitioner, or person close to
the research question, as opposed to ‘top down’
research undertaken by someone else. Action
research is regarded as a way of practitioners and
community members taking ownership of the
problem they have identified. It involves active
participation in problem-solving and decision-making
to improve practice. An essential
component of action research is that it involves
collaboration.

14. QUESTIONS THAT PROMOTE INQUIRY…
 Attention-Focusing
& Probing
 Measuring and
Counting
 Comparison
 Action
 Problem-Posing
 Reasoning
 Metacognitive

15. FRAMEWORKS FOR GUIDING QUESTIONS
 7 Ws and H
 Why, where, which, what, when, who, what if and how
 KWL
 What do I know?
 What do I want to find out?
 What have I learned?
 KWHLAQ
 What do I know?
 What do I want to know?
 How do I find out?
 What have I learned?
 What action will I take?
 What new questions o I have?

16. HOW DOES YOUR
SCHOOL “DO” INQUIRY
LEARNING?

17. GENERAL CAPABILITIES IN THE
AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
 Literacy
 Numeracy
 ICT 
 Critical & Creative 
 Personal & Social 
 Ethical behaviour 
 Intercultural Understanding

18. © June Wall Consultancy
Information
literate
learners
Inquiry
learning
Critical
thinking
Reflective
learners

19. © June Wall Consultancy
ICT
literacy
Digital citizenship
Information
literacy
Critical
21c thinking

21. Brainstorm – recall, categorise, classify, record
 What tools can be used?
 How do you teach brainstorming / mind mapping?

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24. Teaching the scaf folding process and then getting the students
to analyse and explain provides oppor tunities for higher order
thinking

25. PREPARING STUDENTS FOR CHANGE
 Knowledge – their responsibi lity to learn
 Ski l ls – how do they learn and what ski lls are needed
 Attitudes – they need to want to learn in a dif ferent way
 Empowerment – they need to feel they can do as needed and
have the right . . .

26. WHAT IS GOING TO BE DIFFERENT?
 Self managed students
 Questioning
 Project Management –
 Time management
 Thinking about thinking and work
 Choice of topic
 Choice of how to represent information

27. ATTITUDES
 Determine student
perspectives
 Determine student needs
and wants
 Link changing classroom
practice to these

28. EMPOWERMENT
 LOTS of discussion with students and ar ticulation of purpose,
surveys of students
 LOTS of l istening
 Relationship bui lding

29. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN AS THE TEACHER?
Backward Design
 Identify learning outcomes and the expectation to show have
been achieved.
 Identify class structure
 Identify ski lls needed
 Design initial program to teach ski l ls
 Integrate knowledge acquisition, ski l ls and attitudes with
curriculum outcomes

30. Core - Culture
Core – China / India
Options –
Technology etc

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33. HOW DO WE BUILD A
SUSTAINABLE INQUIRY
BASE?

34. SUSTAINABLE INQUIRY LEARNING?
 Deve lo p a n o p e n mi nd s et to t r y new t h i ng s a nd “ h ave a g o ”
 Al low teachers to fai l and learn and then al low students to fai l
to learn
 Be clear about your expectations
 Prepare students for learning in a new way

35. REFERENCES AND RESOURCES
Design Thinking
ht tp://notosh.com/what -we-do/the-design- thinking-school/
Design Thinking Toolki t
ht tp://www.designthinkingforeducators.com/
Lupton, Mandy (2013) Inqui r y pedagogy and the Aust ral ian Cur r iculum.
Pr imar y and Middle Years Educator, 11(2) , pp. 23-29. Avai lable f rom
ht tp://epr ints.qut .edu.au/65829/2/65829.pdf
NSW Depar tment of Educat ion & Communi t ies (2013) Br ing your own device
(BYOD) in schools. 2013 Li terature review. Avai lable at
ht tps://www.det .nsw.edu.au/pol icies/technology/computers/mobi le -
device/BYOD_2013_Li terature_Review.pdf