Features of 21st Century learning design and resource development

Features of 21st Century learning design and resource developmnent: Rob Stowell

Focus on the learners as collaborators in the learning practice with individual accountability was a key message for me.

I loved the use of "Cooperative Shapes" activity as a way to activate learners to see each other as resources in the learning process.

Why personalise learning? Social justice and environmental changes - technolgoy

• The attainment gap
• Over-representation of disadvantaged groups amonst lowest attainers
• Higher skills demands with complex pathways through ted and training
• Socially and ethnically diverse society
• Increased power of technology

Features of personalised learning

• Highly structured
• Responsive
• Strengthened link between learning and teaching
• Learner-focused, knowledge-focused, assessment focused

Scaffold – use assessment to plan learning

5 Key Strategeies to increase student performance

1. Sharing learning expectations: clarifying and sharing learining interactions and criteria for success
2. Questioning: discussion, questions and learning tasks
3. Feedback: moving learners forward with feedback
4. Self Assessment: students reflect on their learning
5. Peer assessment: students help each other to improve

Need clear picture of what is required – visualise competence

“Inside the Black Box” – Paul Black and Dylan William

Interventions that impact on student learning

Formative assessment techniques showed greater outcomes for students learning

• Overall student performance improves
• Gap between highest and lowest narrows
• Lowest level students have highest learning gain(advantages the most disadvantaged

Idea to use: students write reports – teacher gathers common mistakes and gives to groups to correct and make suggestions for improvement

Reflective notes from Mark Jones:

Rob Stowell -21st Century Learning Design and Resource Development

Content is no longer relatively static, and curriculum likewise.

Teaching does not always equal learning.

School learning does not always apply lifelong.

Teaching need to be agile (and creative)

"Learning needs to be fluid, constant and in your pocket" David Martin

Educational imagination cab be commonplace.

Should we be trying to personalizing rather than contextualising?

Are we making things too difficult for ourselves re assessment? Why?

Tap into global resources and communities.

Key features of 21st learning: applied, personalized, collaborative, reflective, technology-enabled, assessment-focused.

There are different styles of individualized to collaborative learning. Cf creative shapes activity.

Auditors don't always respect creativity.

3 approaches to learning: individualistic, competitive, collaborative - collaborative most effective.

5 features of collaborative learning: individual accountability, group goals, team skills, - doubles learning, other consequences (such as group skills and recognition of individual differences, blurring and teacher and learner roles, challenges learners to try new approaches).

Personalized learning can help overcome attainment gap, allows diversity, and allows technology to do it thing.

Personalised learning is quite structured, responsive, strengthened between teaching and learning, learner&knowledge&assessment-focused.

Can personalize content and learning experience.

Assessment is the greatest way of improving learning individually and as a group - assuming we use assessment for learning.

Assessment for learning occurs during learning, done with learners, improves learning, promotes learning, looks forward to the next stage of learning.

Need clear picture of what success in learning is.

Key strategies: shares expectations, questioning, feedback, self-assessment, peer assessment.

Use evidence about learning to adapt instruction to meet learner needs.

Technology can improve such assessment.

The teacher needs to be an integral part of process - engaged as much as students.