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Ultranet Learning Tasks and
Learner Profile
What’s the BIG Idea?
The Ultranet connects people, places, spaces and ideas.
It is an online student centred
learning environment that supports high-quality learning and teaching, connects students and parents and
enables efficient knowledge transfer.
It enables a rich knowledge framework for schools, making
classrooms without walls possible
online, 24/7 anywhere access for students,
parents & teachers
a continuous record of student learning
progress over time
student information for personalised curriculum
planning & delivery
opportunities for students to take greater
responsibility for their learning
facilitated knowledge transfer for teachers &
sharing across the State
a contemporary looking system & customised
for Victoria
Web 2.0 tools for teachers & students to
collaborate within & across schools
leading practice in online curriculum planning,
delivery & assessment
The Ultranet will deliver….
Education Workflow
Education Workflow Product Workflow
Education Workflow Product Workflow Using the Ultranet, Planning can include: • Organising your Learning Tasks in a way that
suits you or your school • Create a variety of Learning Tasks for your
students • Assign a Standard to each Learning Task
Using the Ultranet, Planning can include: • Organising your Learning Tasks in a way that
suits you or your school • Create a variety of Learning Tasks for your
students • Assign a Standard to each Learning Task
Education Workflow Using the Ultranet, Teaching can include: • Using Release 1 resources and Spaces • Providing direct access to web-based content • Providing self-paced learning opportunities • Providing individualised curriculum
Product Workflow
TEACHER VIEW STUDENT VIEW TEACHER VIEW
Education Workflow Using the Ultranet, Teaching can include: • Using Release 1 resources and Spaces • Providing direct access to web-based content • Providing self-paced learning opportunities • Providing individualised curriculum
Using the Ultranet, Assessment can include: • Dynamic Reporting • Dynamic Feedback (Observations)
• Student Profile visual data
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TEACHER VIEW STUDENT VIEW
Product Workflow
Education Workflow Using the Ultranet, Assessment can include: • Dynamic Reporting • Dynamic Feedback (Observations) • Coming soon:
• Student Profile visual data
Product Workflow Using the Ultranet, Student Data look like: • Manually entered data:
• Confirmation of Standard achievement • Observations (comments)
• Individual tasks • Overall progress
• Dynamic data: • Task progress feeds • Standard demonstration progress feeds • Individual Task Observation feeds
STUDENT VIEW TEACHER VIEW
Privacy (who sees what?)
IMPORTANT: This should be a key component of your communication with staff
Key areas of interest DYNAMIC SYSTEMS • Creation of Learning Tasks in a class means instant access by students and
parents (by default) • Learning Tasks and Observations won’t go through a peer monitoring system
to check for errors (by default) PARENT AND STUDENT COLLABORATION IN THE REPORTING SYSTEM • Parents have access to tasks and observations created by teachers for their
child (by default) • Parents and students can comment on teacher observations (by default)
QUESTIONS?
1. CONNECT
How are the ideas and information connected to what you
already know?
2.EXTEND
What new ideas did you get that extend your thinking in new
directions?
3. CHALLENGE
What is still challenging or confusing for you?
What can PARENTS see?
Learner Profile
Teacher, Parent, Student:
Learner Profile for a student (Relationship View)
Teacher only
can click on a
class to drill
down
Teacher, student
or parent can
click on a
teacher for more
information
Parent uses this
button to access
their child’s
eXpress space
Relationship
View
Click breadcrumbs to
return to a previous page
Teacher, Parent, Student:
Learner Profile for a student (Profile View)
Click the dropdown
arrow in the top-right
of each box to drill
down to more detail
Click the Progress
button to see detailed
reports
This view is available to teachers,
students and parents
Data will be progressively
built up over time.
Profile
View
Click a class in the list to
go directly to the profile
view for that class
What can PARENTS see?
Learning Tasks (of their child)
Parent: View child’s work on a Learning Item (Journal)
View teacher’s
instructions to
students
View journal
entries submitted
by child and by
the teacher
Parent: View teacher’s feedback on a Learning Item
To add an
Observation
click the New
button
View
Demonstrations
recorded by the
teacher for this item.
View Comments and
Grades or Marks
recorded by the teacher
for this item.
Parent: add Observation about Learning Item
Parent: Review child’s Confirmations, Demonstrations and Opportunities
Click to view
detail of
Confirmation
Click to view
Demonstrations and
Opportunities
Select
child
Parent: view detail of Confirmations
Parent: view Demonstrations and Opportunities
Select a Learning
Item and click Go
A Demonstration has been
recorded for this Learning
Item
Parent: view detail of Confirmations
Parent: Add general Observation about child
Education Workflow How the Ultranet
supports quality
learning and teaching
Student Data
• Where are my students up to with their learning?
• Teachers can readily access rich, up-to-date information about their students…
Ultranet functionality?
Plan
What and how do I want my students to learn?
• Teachers can readily collaborate with their colleagues and share their curriculum planning.
• Data can be used to plan and deliver a more personalised curriculum
• Digital learning resources can be incorporated.
• Collaborative learning can be facilitated through web 2.0 tools
Ultranet functionality?
Teach
• How do I actively support and monitor my student’s learning?
• Learning tasks are delivered online or offline and are facilitated by the teacher
• The teacher monitors student learning
• Ultranet functionality?
Assess
What evidence of learning have my students demonstrated?
• Teachers can assess and record student progress online.
• Students capture evidence of their learning
• Ultranet functionality?
Teaching and Learning Cycle
e5
DETERMINES READINESS FOR LEARNING
What will the teacher say and do?
Engage
Assesses prior knowledge
Identifies a purpose for
learning
Connects to students’ lives
SAY DO
What did we learn yesterday?
What do we know about…?
What strategies did you use? Where do we use this in
everyday life? What language/words might we
use/hear?
How might you learn/do it?
Differentiated tasks / groupings Students involved in pre lesson
discussion about what they know.
Encourage students to share strategies previously used or that may be used.
Encourage/ prompt confident reflections by students.
Stipulate lesson focus. Explicitly teach correct
vocabulary. Brainstorm and discuss.
Establish a clear focus for learning and share with students.
Help students make connections to the real world.
e5 FACILITATE SUBSTANTIVE CONVERSATION
What will the teacher say and do?
Elaborate
Promotes thinking
Maintains the flow of
conversation
Builds on participants
ideas
SAY DO
What do you think….?
How do you know…..? Can anyone add
information…
How can we……? Could you tell me more
…. Give me an
example…….
The teacher will question
others to build on and evaluate student responses.
The teacher will provide a range of entry points for students to work at own level.
The teacher will provide challenging tasks.
The teacher will promote teacher /student and student/student conversation.
e5 CULTIVATES HIGHER ORDER THINKING
What will the teacher say and do?
Elaborate
Structures learning tasks
Extends learning to new
contexts
Provides feedback
Adjusts instruction
SAY DO
How can we use these
understandings in another situation?
What if….? If we know this what does
that mean when applied to……?
Why did you do that?
The teacher will provide an
activity /activities to promote evaluation, analyising and synthesizing.
The teacher will encourage prediction/justification of strategies.
The teacher facilitates students to apply understandings to make generalisation. (see rules and patterns.
The teacher will present problem solving tasks to students.
QUESTIONS?
Can you describe the user experience of the Ultranet (from the Teachers', Students', Parents' point of views)
Can you describe a use-case for the Ultranet which makes
it utterly irresistible & seductive?
What would you invent to extend, or improve the Ultranet? (It needn't be technology.)