4. “ISLE powered by SLC”
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5. Workflow
IlliniData
SLC Apps IIRC 2.0
Platform (Ed-fi)
IlliniCloud Middleware Services
District 1 District 2 SEA District 4 District 5
6.
7. ISLE powered by SLC
What is the SLC Technology?
What Set of data, reporting and identity / access management
services for participating State Education Agencies and their
districts, vendors and partners
Challenge Connecting disparate student data to the educational
assessment and content tools to make it easier for teachers to
create personalized instruction maps for each child mapping to the
Common Core State Standards.
Benefits • Help teachers provide richer, more engaging and
personalized learning experiences
• Create new innovation opportunities for a larger and more diverse
field of vendors and content creators
• Maintain the states’ ability to tailor the program to their
existing systems, preferences and requirements
8. ISLE powered by SLC
Greater personalization requires improved
interoperability between data, content, assessments
and applications
8
9. What the SLC
technology will
3rd Party App
enable 3rd
Party Data
3rd Party App
3rd Party
Curriculum
3rd Party Management App
Grading App App 3rd Party App
What the SLC
technology will Recommendation
SLC SLC
Sponsored Sponsored
include Learning Map Dashboard
Engine Proof of
Concept
App TBD App TBD
LRMI Application Programming Interface (API)
metadata
schema Secure multi-tenant
data store
Source
systems data Vendor
(classroom, schools, distri Data
cts, state)
11. What will all of this do?
• Help teachers teach personally
• Help developers build targeted
applications to fit local need
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12. Vendor Data Student
Source Systems Data
Dashboard
SLC
technology John English
Learning Map
Ms. Harrison Students John Social Studies
Viewing all
classes Math SLC
technology
Ms. Harrison uses
John’s prior record
to determine:
John does the
Reading assignment
Comprehension Recommendation Engine Ms. Harrison Vendor app sends
Filtered by age, effectiveness rating, etc. chooses the data to the SLC technology
best option
SLC From multiple sources, such as SLC
the LRMI and Data Store
API
technology technology
Dashboard
John English
Reading
Comp Social Studies Learning Map
Viewing all John’s experience
classes Math Ms. Harrison becomes one more
Assessment useful data point to
rates assignment
inform learning for
SLC SLC technology students like him.
API SLC
technology API
technology
14. How will this help classrooms?
• Streamlines existing tools
• Opens up access to learning resources
• Results in usable student data
• Automates processes
26. For more information:
• Illinois Shared Learning Environment
– Overview
• The Shared Learning Collaborative
– Web http://slcedu.org/
– YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/slcedu
– Twitter
• @SLCedu
• @SLCDev
• @GdOlMrThompson
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27. Contact Information:
• Jim Peterson
– District 87
– jim@district87.org
• Tim Farquer
– Illinois State Board of Education
– timfarquer@gmail.com
– twitter@timfarquer
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Notes de l'éditeur
Deeper Dive. What exactly does interoperability mean?The common core suggests multiple paths to meeting the standards. If the goal is really to personalize instruction then there has to be flexibility to meet the needs of individual students while still working towards a common standard. The concept of the learning map is the key to enable this. The idea of the “learning map” is a little obscure and hard to grasp initially, but the best metaphor I’ve heard is that it is an instructional GPS. While the goal is for everyone to arrive at the same destination, students all start from different points. Based upon where their starting point is and how well they “drive” the learning map helps determine the right path to get to the destination. If along the way a student makes a “wrong turn” the learning map can help “recalculate” their route. The learning map uses a student’s record to align to their specific needs and proficiencies. It is also aligned to the specific details of courses and the wide variety of content out there that will ultimately be linked to specific standards. And of course, the learning map must be aligned to assessments, both formative and summative, and other applications to track students’ progress along the way and also determine the efficacy of the various courses and content.Here’s where the benefit of interoperability comes into play. As more and more students use this common platform, more data is collected and analyzed by these applications in order to strengthen the recommendation engines used to link specific resources to specific student deficiencies, and also to improve the courses and content. The interoperability that is enabled by having a common platform supporting common standards provides improved efficiency not just in the cost of providing services, but improved efficiency in our courses, our content, and ultimately instruction.
When you look at school technology systems, much of what we’ve described as being the root problems has to do with capturing and making data about student performance accessible and easy to understand. People in this room are working on amazing curriculum and applications to improve teacher productivity, but they aren’t going to solve the root problem if they don’t all work together. “Out of the box” we are building the middleware that integrates and orchestrates activities across different state systems, components and applications, enabling them to interact. Using LRMI to enable metadata tagging, data from schools, districts and states as well as vendors, will feed a cloud-based data store. An open-source application programming interface (API) will enable vendors and developers to create applications and content that can interface with the Shared Learning Infrastructure, which will be critical to making this a successful development for schools.[CLICK] To help show what will be possible with the new access to data, the SLC will also build several applications including learning maps and dashboards to make student data more manageable and useful for educators in a customizable format. The SLC is also collaborating on the creation of a recommendation engine proof-of-concept to help educators identify the best and most appropriate learning resources from commercial and independent developers for any given student. Other applications to be built by (or sponsored by) the SLC are under consideration.[CLICK] All of this technology will be published to an open source community, to help trigger additional designed developments and improvements in the applications and technology.
Start at 2:30 End at 5:30 (after math)This is to help with classroom conceptualization
Show some screen shots of what is being done right now
Show some screen shots of what is being done right now
Flags can be attached to a variety of conditions to trigger a variety of actions
This example shows a simple way to set honor roll
Flags can be combined to make “aggregate flags”
Conditional student grouping that updates in response to the data
I can envision strategic classroom grouping in response to a set of assessment items