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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I knew it!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I remember leaving a school 15 years ago where every student had to have a computer and asking myself what improvement in learning outcomes could I see? There seemed to be a lack of pedagogy direction on how to use them. I was told students could move through content at their own pace – as fast as they like. But this also meant they could go as slow as they liked! They enjoyed it more but did that translate to an efficient learning model?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Roy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Catalist [mailto:catalist-bounces@lists.stawa.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael McGarry<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 5 November 2016 8:06 AM<br><b>To:</b> catalist@lists.stawa.net<br><b>Subject:</b> [Catalist] ACER: "Technology reform full of good ideas, poorly executed" [10102016]<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Greetings CATALIST List Subscribers, especially Leon Harris,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>The evidenced-based ‘recommendations’ in the ACER: Teacher: (Long Reads) article “<i>Technology reform full of good ideas, poorly executed</i> [in Education]”<b> </b>Author<b>: </b></span><b><span style='color:#111111'>Andreas Schleicher</span></b><span style='color:#111111'>: OECD URL 1: </span><a href="http://www.oecd.org/edu/andreas-schleicher.htm">http://www.oecd.org/edu/andreas-schleicher.htm</a> and SMH URL: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/oecd-education-chief-andreas-schleicher-blasts-australias-education-system-20160313-gnhz6t.html">http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/oecd-education-chief-andreas-schleicher-blasts-australias-education-system-20160313-gnhz6t.html</a> and TED URL: <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/andreas_schleicher_use_data_to_build_better_schools?language=en">https://www.ted.com/talks/andreas_schleicher_use_data_to_build_better_schools?language=en</a> should be studied and acted upon by all stakeholders who wish to see <b>C</b>omputer <b>A</b>ssisted <b>L</b>earning deliver significant and sustained improvement in learning outcomes for all students within Australian schools (Primary and Secondary).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Reference URL: <a href="https://www.teachermagazine.com.au/">https://www.teachermagazine.com.au</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>“<span lang=EN-US>Students who use computers moderately at school tend to have somewhat better learning outcomes than students who use computers rarely. But students who use computers very frequently at school do a lot worse in most learning outcomes. Imagine that, the more intensively students use computers at school, the less digitally literate they seem to be, even after accounting for social background and student demographics. The PISA results also show no improvements in learning outcomes in those countries that have invested most heavily in digital technology in schools.”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>“What can we make out of those results? One interpretation is that education is a largely social enterprise and that building <b>deep, conceptual understanding and higher-order thinking</b> will always hinge on <b>high quality teacher-student interactions</b>, to which technology does not automatically add.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>“Another interpretation is that we simply haven’t become good enough at the kind of pedagogies that make the most of technology; that adding 21st century technologies to 20th century teaching practices and 19th century learning environments will just dilute the effectiveness of learning.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>“If students use smartphones to copy and paste answers to prefabricated questions, it’s not going to help them become ‘smarter’. If we want students to become smarter than a smartphone, we need to think harder about learning and instruction.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>“We have seen massive increases in investment in education over the last decade, and Australia is no exception. In the OECD area you are talking about close to 40 per cent more money per student in real terms. But there has been virtually no improvement in learning outcomes, not even in the 10 top-performing PISA countries.” OECD URL 2: <a href="https://www.oecd.org/pisa/">https://www.oecd.org/pisa/</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>For Example: Question: What significant and sustained improvement in learning outcomes was achieved by money borrowed on the bond market and spent on the 1:1 laptop programme for students in Years 9 to 12 in our Australian high schools? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>What are Teenagers doing Online?</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>“The PISA results also show no improvements in learning outcomes in those countries that have invested most heavily in digital technology in schools.” What can we make out of that result?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>A third ‘interpretation’ of the PISA result may be rooted in” What are Teenagers doing Online?” [Out of School and at School, but hopefully not during their classes.]<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>URL 1: <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/what-are-teens-doing-online/">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/what-are-teens-doing-online/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>URL 2: <a href="http://www.acma.gov.au/theACMA/engage-blogs/engageblogs/Research-snapshots/Aussie-teens-online">http://www.acma.gov.au/theACMA/engage-blogs/engageblogs/Research-snapshots/Aussie-teens-online</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>URL 3: <a href="http://www.mcafee.com/au/about/news/2012/q2/20120625-01.aspx">http://www.mcafee.com/au/about/news/2012/q2/20120625-01.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>URL 4: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life/planet-porn-20130521-2jze9.html">http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life/planet-porn-20130521-2jze9.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>WA DoE: CONNECT</b><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>WA DoE URL: <a href="http://www.det.wa.edu.au/curriculumsupport/ocs/detcms/navigation/e-schooling-services/how-to-access-connect/">http://www.det.wa.edu.au/curriculumsupport/ocs/detcms/navigation/e-schooling-services/how-to-access-connect/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Leon suggested on CATALIST (04112016) that: “Instead, what do we have? We have a closed Connect system, that is dependent on Oracle databases, and a continual need to update them, resulting in an elevated cost of ownership. We send the profits from most of that $25 million overseas, and that suppresses growth of endemic talent. Finally, we have an inferior product, which can only evolve at great cost, and which has a much more limited range of capabilities. [As a WA DoE Teacher, my access to CONNECT was removed most probably because I suggested that the assessment of key science conceptual understanding using RUBRIC word statements would lead to further decline in mathematics and science achievement of Australian school students as measured by OECD PISA.] Please NOTE: The Mathematics and Science Literacy PISA scores of our Australian students have continued to decline over the past decade.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>MOODLE</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>MOODLE URL 1: <a href="https://moodle.com">https://moodle.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>MOODLE URL 2: <a href="https://moodle.com/hq/">https://moodle.com/hq/</a> [Please read: “Our Values”.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>Which WA Institutions currently use MOODLE?</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Rossmoyne SHS, Mount Lawley SHS, North Metropolitan Health Service, MyCQU, Great Southern Grammar, Canning Vale College, South Regional TAFE, WA Gifted and Talented Online, and Lesmurdie SHS. [Please forgive me if the List is in error?] <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Please be reminded that my Australian Science (Year Levels 7 to 10) Interactive PDF curriculum modules can still be FREE downloaded from the "Middle Years Science" webpages on ASTA <b>MOODLE</b>: URL: <a href="http://moodle.asta.edu.au">http://moodle.asta.edu.au</a> and not from CONNECT.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks and Best Wishes,<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Michael John McGarry<o:p></o:p></p></div>
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