Diminishing the digital divide empowerment through partnership and technology

1. Diminishing the digital divideempowerment through partnership and technology Interactive Distance Learning National Communications Fund (NSW and Northern Territory)

2. Diminishing the digital divide - Networking 2003 Overview Project Introduction Outreach Programs Aboriginal Programs IDL delivery Technology and the mobile classroom Conclusion Questions

3. Diminishing the digital divide - Networking 2003 Empowerment of adult learners� Communities and individuals who face barriers to access parents and carers of school of the air students remote and isolated Aboriginal communities rural and remote non-Aboriginal communities

4. Diminishing the digital divide - Networking 2003 Empowerment by� The project partners OPTUS DET New South Wales (schools and TAFE NSW) DEET Northern Territories (schools and VET) communities and students

5. Diminishing the digital divide - Networking 2003 TAFE NSW provision� TAFE NSW partners Outreach Programs Unit Aboriginal Programs Unit Western Institute and North Coast Institute IT expertise at the local level Teachers and coordinators in both institutes

6. Diminishing the digital divide - Networking 2003 TAFE NSW provision�

7. Diminishing the digital divide - Networking 2003 Technology Technology as the enabler of improved delivery by building on school of the air delivery for parents and carers in homesteads Distance Education Centre studios outside school hours using mobile trailers with satellite dish for remote and isolated Aboriginal communities promoting interactive group learning

8. Diminishing the digital divide - Networking 2003 Outreach Programs Unit The participation of disadvantaged groups in the organization, design, implementation and evaluation of Outreach educational programs is central to the empowering process, and is a fundamental aim of Outreach�. �.the skills learnt in this process are necessary if disadvantaged groups are to have a genuine say in what happens in their communities.

9. Diminishing the digital divide - Networking 2003 Outreach modelempowerment through partnership working in partnerships addressing the barriers which prevent students from accessing education and training eg. childcare, distance, appropriate equipment innovative teaching and learning strategies which address the learning needs and styles of students eg project based and experiential negotiated programs with content and program design incorporating input from students

10. Diminishing the digital divide - Networking 2003 Outreach needs assessment February 2002 phone survey of parents and carers of SOTA (approximately 40) overwhelmingly positive response computer skills to support children as students and farm accountancy and own future employment

11. Diminishing the digital divide - Networking 2003 Aboriginal Programs Danny Lester Aboriginal Programs Unit TAFE NSW

12. Diminishing the digital divide - Networking 2003 Aboriginal Programs Unit statewide policy for Aboriginal education and training in NSW leadership, advocacy and advice on education and training for Aboriginal students and communities curriculum development Teaching and learning resources

13. Diminishing the digital divide - Networking 2003 Aboriginal policy framework IDL program has specific alignment to National and State Policies Partners in a Learning Culture (ANTA) New Partners, New Learning, State VET Plan (NSW)

14. Diminishing the digital divide - Networking 2003 Aboriginal Programs IDL provision provides educational opportunities to rural and remote Aboriginal communities provision is flexible and innovative to meet community and industry needs community infrastructure is no barrier

15. Diminishing the digital divide - Networking 2003 The Future high-quality resources and application design integrating IDL into other regions in NSW possible Asia-Pacific partnership

16. Diminishing the digital divide - Networking 2003 IDL Delivery Denise Smyth Outreach Coordinator TAFE NSW � Western Institute

17. Diminishing the digital divide - Networking 2003 Introduction to IDL Delivery Aims to address barriers for disadvantaged groups in communities, and to provide access to vocational education and training Target groups parents & carers of students of the air rural and remote Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities

18. Diminishing the digital divide - Networking 2003 Teaching and learning Current delivery of lessons is from any of three studios Broken Hill Dubbo Port Macquarie

19. Diminishing the digital divide - Networking 2003 Teaching environment