Deep learning as a mechanism for school improvement

1. NEW PEDAGOGIES FOR
DEEP
LEARNINGPractical provocations for
School Improvement

2. LEARNING INTENTION
To provoke inquiry into
new ways of teaching
well in and for the digital
world

3. SUCCESS CRITERIA
An enthused understanding of deep
learning as vehicle of school

4. IMMERSE &
PROVOKE
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5. “
“
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The challenge for us is to
embrace, and respond to, not
just the technology, but the
extraordinary pace of change.
Beyond the Classroom: A New Digital Education for Young Australians in the 21st
Century.

6. IS Mr Keating a good
TEACHER?
#keyquestion

7. https://goo.gl/7Rlojk
What have been your best
learning experiences in
LIFE AND SCHOOL

8. THINK &
THEORISE
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9. What are we learning today @ CEWA?

11. Cultivate Engagement
Social capital is more powerful than human capital, and they function
virtuously by feeding on each other (Fullan)

13. Catholic Education Western Australia
LEADing Lights projects – Wave 1
A unified portal offers
access to digital
curriculum and a virtual
school for students,
personalised learning
and development for
staff and students, using
intelligent, predictive
and adaptive learning
technology to help
everyone achieve more.
School leaders and
business mangers will
have a supported
connected system for
Student Administration,
Academic Achievement,
Attendance & Reporting,
Marketing &
Recruitment, HR &
Finance, Help Desk,
Facility Management,
Strategic Planning and
Project Management.
Everyone’s progress and
success should be
celebrated as CEWA
accelerates Schools as
Learning Organizations
including Private & Public
Partnerships, Conferences,
International and National
recognition, Global
Teacher communities &
global programs including
Apple Distinguished
School and Microsoft
Showcase School
LEADing Lights
provides a single
unified digital
ecosystem for every
single Catholic school
across the state,
ensuring everyone has
the services and
support needed for
success.
LEADing Lights
connects our learning
community to the latest
communication,
collaboration and
productivity tools,
learning resources, and
management systems,
so learning can be more
engaging, teaching
more flexible, parents
more informed and
schools more vibrant
and innovative.
LEADing Lights
streamlines and
centralises student
records and learning
evidence, providing
real-time insight to
inform everything
from student progress
to school planning.
CONCIERGE CEWA365 INSIGHT CELEBRATE
PERSONAL
LEARNING &
DEVELOPMENT
ADMINISTRATION
OF SCHOOLS

14. DO &
WONDER
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15. This is a story about what we have learned about
deep learning pedagogy and it all begins in a
soot-filled city, a long time ago.

16. In the wake of the second industrial revolution,
fuel powered digging machines replaced the toil of
hardworking labourers on farms and cities.

17. Productivity increased and business costs
and the labour force decreased.

18. As physical machines replaced physical bodies
threatening high unemployment, industrialised
governments invested in compulsory education to
prepare future generations for a new world of pen
pushing and people management.

19. A century on, a similar scene is being rehearsed
on the digital stage. Thinking machines are
steadily taking over repetitive cognitive tasks
performed by human beings. Global connectivity
is thinning out local jobs.

20. Rapid wide spread unemployment is
anticipated if we don’t retrain our society to
flourish in the digital world.

21. Yet education has not responded briskly,
producing students for a bygone age of fact
collecting, people management and compliance.

22. An obsessive emphasis on standardised tests
and high stakes exams has skewed the
curriculum focus towards skills we can easily
assess and computers can replicate.

23. The very things computers can’t do remain
largely untaught and untested, leaving our
children vulnerable to skill obsolescence.

24. If we want our children to lead meaningful work-
lives, we must change our approach to
schooling. We need a new pedagogy.

25. This new pedagogy must compel students to
attend school and provide opportunities and
experiences that homes cannot easily replicate.

26. Some educators are calling this rejoinder to traditional
learning, Deep Learning. Although an awkward term, in
the absence of another classifier, we should rally
behind it if we want to transform schooling.

27. One way to understand NPDL is as a response to the
legacy pedagogies – skill and drill, lecture and
broadcast, regurgitation of information - that worked
for late 19th and early 20th century industrial
economies. These economies wanted students that
were compliant, respectful of procedure, able to retain
and regurgitate information and had basic skills in
numeracy and literacy.

28. Deep Learning is a combination of the best of the
old and new. A student centred, inquiry led,
project based, competencies focused, higher
order and technologically savvy approach to
teaching and learning.

29. THE INGREDIENTS OF
DEEP LEARNING

30. Maximising student choice over what
they learn and how they learn
supercharges motivation and sustains
positive learning behaviors
Project-problem
based
Content
Knowledge
Pedagogy
Autonomy
Technology
ENGAGEMENT
Making teaching and learning
choices that connect with the
elements of DDLD is critical to
effective instruction
Strong learning area specific
expertise that is curricula compliant
advantageously fast tracks
scaffolding and targets key skills
and knowledge more effectively
Effective deep learning cuts across
learning areas through project
based learning tasks that
investigate real and relevant
questions and assess
learners on authentic outputs
Groenewald 2016
The Elements of Deep Learning Design
Competencies
Engagement
Wellbeing
Belonging
The 6 Competencies that realise
deep learning are creativity,
communication, citizenship, critical
thinking, character and collaboration
Effective planning with/for technology
capabilities increases engagement,
collaboration and access to skills and
knowledge
Learning contexts that engage, excite, enthuse, personalise and
challenge are the foundation of effective sustained learning

31. What would this new-old pedagogy look
like to you? (Discuss)
Sample Little Scientists

32. Communication
Source: Fullan and Quinn, Coherence: NPDL 2016
Creativity
Critical
Thinking
Collaboration
Citizenship
Character
The 6cs
In Deep Learning The 6 Competencies below are the vehicle
through which learning areas are realised. In Australia, the 7
General Capabilities can be employed for a similar effect
Critically evaluating information
and applying it
Problem seeking and solution thinking
Work together well and develop
others to
achieve common goals.
Effective expression with tools of
the Age
Thinking like a global citizen
and understand ’real’
diversity
Seek deeply with
perseverance

33. In a team pair, identify an area of mathematics that concerns you.
Why is this area a challenge?
What realistic measures could the school take to support you to
address this challenge?
What could be done to improve and deepen student learning?
What is one fertile question your students could explore in this area
that could deepen student engagement and inquiry?
How could technology be included to change the way this area is
taught and assessed.
SESSION CHALLENGE

34. PEDAGOGICAL PILOT PROJECT AIMS
1.
Inquiry learning
project exploring
deep
pedagogical
practices
2.
Focus on pedagogical
practices, school
improvement processes
and digital learning
technologies
3.
Aligning CEWA
support in
addressing a
school’s specific
ASIP goal(s). 5.
Include school
and class room
visits and
networking
sessions.
6.
Celebrate
4.
Sharing platform
allowing continuous
interaction and
collaboration.

35. 8 Steps to Deeper Learning
at your school level
PL on Challenge
Based Learning
PL on
leveraging
digital tools
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36. Spiral of Inquiry: Helen TimperleySpiral of Inquiry: Helen Timperley

38. Notes in progress

39. and love the oxygen
Pedagogy is the driver,
technology the accelerator,
culture the runway,
team play the engine,
content the vehicle
#deeplearning

40. Deep Learning Unit Exemplars
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