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=**Presentation 2**: Christine Masters - Models of Contemporary Learning (as defined by Catholic Network Australia)=

=Contemporary Learning - Who's driving the agenda? =

The Education Ministers from each State and Territory in Australia and New Zealand met in Hobart in 1989 as the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment Training and Youth Affairs ([|MCEETYA] ). They identified a need to outline an agreed vision for high quality schooling to assist schools to meet the challenges of the times and thus ensure an appropriate basis for future growth and development of Australia. This meeting resulted in a framework, [|the Hobart Declaration], which articulated ten goals for schooling.It was agreed that these national goals would be reviewed from time to time, in response to the changing needs of Australian society.

In 1999 MCEETYA met in Adelaide and reviewed the framework for Australian schooling. It was recognised that there was an impending new paradigm that needed to be addressed to ensure that students "(have) the necessary knowledge, understanding, skills and values for a productive and rewarding life in an educated, just and open society" ([|MCEETYA 1999]). This new paradigm required education to move from a book based paradigm or an industrial model of education to an internet based paradigm or a knowledge society. Ref. Mark Treadwell [|Why Schools Can't improve: The Upper Limit Hypothesis] To assist with the shift in paradigm MCEETYA formed an [|ICT in Schools Taskforce]. This was discontinued in 2008 and has been replaced by [|Australian Information and Communications Technology in Education Committee] (AICTEC). During its existence the ICT in Schools Taskforce looked at six priority areas under the banner '[|Learning in an Online World: School education action plan for the information economy]' One of the priorities areas was [|Contemporary Learning]. //**'For educators, the challenge is how best to change and improve the quality of teaching and learning in order to contribute to Australia's development as an equitable, imaginative and economically strong knowledge society'. **// In 2007 the [|Australian Catholic Bishop's Conference] began to explore the idea of a whole of Church network. The National Church ICT Committee was formed. At the same time the Australian Catholic Education Network Consortium (ACENC) was established.Both organisations have identified the need for Catholic Schools to take up the challenges presented by MCEETYA's [|Contemporary Learning], [|Pedagogy Strategy] and [|Learning Spaces] frameworks. In 2008 ACENC changed their name to CAtholic Network Australia (CNA).

=What does Contemporary Learning look like? = Whilst much has been written in an attempt to define contemporary learning there has been very little if anything produced that actually shows what contemporary learning looks like. A sub committee of the ACENC group was formed - the Contemporary Learning Working Party (CLWP) to address this area.

Our Vision
 **//To support the mission of all Catholic schools to nurture the faith development of young people in the Catholic tradition by fully integrating information and communication technologies in contemporary learning and teaching//**

 Key Objectives

 * collaboratively support contemporary learning across Australian Catholic Education
 * enable the creation, aggregation and sharing of knowledge, content and resources across Australia in support for contemporary learning, advanced network and application services and the pooling of resources to support contemporary learning

The CLWP agreed that when CNA became a reality it would not only provide a connected community, it would provide moderated content developed by Catholic teachers according to [|agreed criteria] that specifically support the dimensions of contemporary learning as delivered in the Catholic setting. This content could then be used by systems, schools and individuals to provide guidance and assist with understanding of and practice in contemporary learning.



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[|Contemporary Learning Within the Context of the Catholic School]

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