Briefing Seminar for School Leaders of WiFi 900 Schools

Coherent Development of IT in Education Strategies and Curriculum Reform for Fostering Students’ Life-long Learning and Whole-person development

Curriculum guides & ongoing revision

New Academic Structure, curriculum &

assessment reform

‘Learning to Learn’ reform in basic

education

Teacher-centred Student-centred

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t IT

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n 1. Infrastructure 2. e-resources 3. e-leadership 4. Self-directed Learning (with

outcomes) in classrooms

Development of ITE

Mobile devices +

Internet

Communication Text , Voice, Picture,

Video Social Media Discussion forums, Blogs, Facebook

Business On-line shopping

Education E-learning???

Entertainment Games, Music, Films

Digital Transformation

Digital Transformation

Learning Transformation Lead to

???

How to make good use of IT to facilitate learning?

Interactive

Adaptable

Accessible

Portable

Effective

Give students access to better content

Improve outcomes

Empower teachers and students

Equip our students with 21st Century learning skills - Self-directed

learning skills - Collaborative skills - Problem solving

skills - Information Literacy

Teaching Tool (Powerpoint, multimedia,

simulations,..)

Learning Tool (e-resources/courses,

e-assessment,..)

Learning Partner (study tool/materials, T/S communication,

collaboration,..)

Emerging use of IT in Education

A learning partner for students

International Society for Technology in Education

ISTE Standards for School Leaders 1. Visionary leadership – Inspire and lead development and

implementation of a shared vision 2. Digital age learning culture – create and promote digital-age

learning culture 3. Excellence in professional practice – promote professional

learning and innovation 4. Systemic improvement – e.g. appropriate use of technology,

competent personnel, partnerships, infrastructure 5. Digital citizenship – facilitate understanding of social, ethical

and legal issues and responsibilities

http://www.iste.org/standards/iste-standards/standards-for-administrators

Vision

Culture Profess-ionalism

System

Information Literacy

(2) Try-out

(3) Initial Implementation

(1) Planning

(4) Extensive Implementation

A typical road map of implementing e-learning in schools School’s mission and vision; Financial deployment*; School’s infrastructure; Teacher training*; SDP Support from various stakeholders*; Task group

Start with a few teachers who are more ready to adopt e-learning; Start with 1 - 2 subject(s) in a particular class level or certain activities

More subjects/ teachers involved; Curriculum planning; e-resources

Setup LMS/ MDM; BYOD; Mobile devices; AUP; e-textbooks; e-assessment; Parents’ involvement

Learning Transformation: Learning to Learn; Life-long Learning (e.g. SDL, CL, IL)

Adjustment

* On-going tasks

To be accomplished by phases in 3 years starting from 2015/16 school year

Funding: One-off funding for acquiring mobile learning devices Recurrent funding for WiFi operation expenditures

Encourage schools to adopt a diversified service model Support schools in adopting BYOD as a long term strategy in e-

Learning

WiFi 900: Enhancing schools’ IT infrastructure

Schedule of WiFi 900 Scheme Item Date Remarks EDB CM Feb 12 • Year of implementation and current

progress on e-learning • Survey of e-learning plan

Briefing for Schools Mar 5, 6, 9 Acceptance letters to schools

Apr 30

Quotation procedures and support measures

May – Jun • Briefing for schools and IT industry on technical requirements

• Technical advisory service: Info. note, sample spec, template for UAT (User Acceptance Test)

• School leaders seminars (June 25, 29) Funding arrangement Jun – Aug

• Funding approval from Legco (May 28) • Informing school of the funding

arrangement (early July) • Release of grants (end July & end Aug)

Construction work and acquisition of mobile devices

Jul – Sep • Ready for use in Sep

CD visits, ITE survey • Annual survey

Expression of Interest cum Survey

12

Advocating subscription modes

0

50

100

150

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300

350

400

450

2015/16 2016/17 2017/18

No. of schools

Year of Implementation

Number of schools opt for subscription

Total Schools

WiFi subscription

Device subscription80% adopt WiFi Subscription 40% adopt Device Subscription

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 >10

No. of schools

2015/16 Primary

Secondary

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20

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120

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 >10

No. of schools

2016/17 Primary

Secondary

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120

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 >10

No. of schools

No. of subjects

2017/18 Primary

Secondary

Schools’ plan in adopting e-learning (1)

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50

100

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300

350

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No. of schools

Subject

Schools’ plan in adopting e-learning (2) – Primary

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

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100

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No. of schools

Subject

Schools’ plan in adopting e-learning (3) – Secondary

2015/162016/172017/18

Teachers’ Readiness

0%

10%

20%

30%

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50%

60%

70%

2015/16 2016/17 2017/18Year of Implementation

Percentage of teachers ready for e-learning

Primary

Secondary

Special

Overall

18

Any BYOD Policies? % of schools

Accumulated %

None 50% 50% Aware the issue and formulating policy

31% 81%

Policy formulated but not yet implemented

7% 88%

Policy formulated and implemented

8% 96%

Have support measures to facilitate BYOD (e.g. AUP, Single sign-on, charging facilities)

4% 100%

Funding arrangement – amount to be received by each school

Class Range One-off grant Extra recurrent

18 classes or below $69,400 $48,530

19-24 classes $95,430 $66,740

25-30 classes $121,450 $84,940

31-36 classes $147,480 $103,140

37 or more classes $173,510 $121,340

Proposed Funding arrangement 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20

1st Batch One-off Clawback

CITG CITG CITG CITG CITG

Extra-Recurrent

Extra-Recurrent

Extra-Recurrent

Extra-Recurrent

Extra-Recurrent

2nd Batch One-off Clawback

CITG CITG CITG CITG CITG

Extra-Recurrent

Extra-Recurrent

Extra-Recurrent

Extra-Recurrent

Note: The one-off grant to be spent over a period of three school years up to end-

August 2018. Any unspent balance of the grant has to be clawed back The extra-recurrent grant

No clawback arrangement - schools can use the unspent balance to meet other operational needs on e-learning

Any deficit has to be met by other sources of funding, e.g. CITG In the long run, will be subsumed under CITG

Schools will be informed of the detailed funding arrangements in July 2015

Launching of ITE4

ITE4 will be launched at the commence of 2015/16 school year with the release of the following : • ITE4 report • ITE4 website • Posters • 2 ETV programme video clips