Naace Strategic Conference 2008

Gareth Davies, Chair, Naace Board of Management

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Minister of State for Schools supported by Doug Brown, Deputy Director, Head of Technology Futures Unit, DCFS

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Professor John Naughton, Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology, Open University and internet columnist, The Observer
Our media environment is being radically transformed by technologically driven social change. But, to date, we’ve seen precious little evidence that the educational sector understands the extent of the challenges it faces in this emerging ecosystem. This lecture charts some of the most significant technological and social developments that have shaped its evolution, sketches the implications of a network-centric world and asks what all this means for teachers, learners, parents, administrators and policy-makers.

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Ewan McIntosh, National Advisor: Learning and Technology Futures, Learning and Teaching, Scotland

When you are a teacher, manager or administrator of several schools, it can seem difficult or impossible to keep track of the latest technology, know whether it’s useful for learning and design ways of putting it into practice. For the past two-and-a-half years Ewan McIntosh has been finding out more sustainable ways of doing just that for Scotland’s national education agency, Learning and Teaching Scotland, and has been helping one Scottish Local Authority to successfully harness the latest technology that lends the biggest impact on improving teaching and learning.

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Other presentations by Ewan can be found here: http://www.slideshare.net/ewan.mcintosh 

Niel McLean, Executive Director, Institutional Workforce and Development, Becta

Niel will provide us with an up to date overview of ‘Harnessing Technology’ developments from a national perspective.

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Roger Broadie, Director, Broadie Associates

The new track to embedding ICT in teaching and learning is using the digital environment (which is more than the ‘learning platform’) to build systems that make all the operations and work practices of teachers/students/admin staff/parents that can be aided by ICT much more effective and efficient. For schools doing this there is no way back to the pre-ICT world and improvement is rapid.

How are these techniques of using the digital environment to be extended into the wider (collaborative/consortia) teaching environment that we need for the 14-19 Diplomas - and for young people’s continued education beyond school?

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David Warlick, Consultant and Author, The Landmark Project
As little as we know about the future, it is clear that it will be a place that is governed by information. Accessing, processing, building with, and communicating information will be a major part of how we live. Being literate in this future will certainly involve reading, writing, and working with numbers. However, literacy will also be far richer and more comprehensive than the 3 Rs of the one room school-house. This enlightening and thought-provoking address will describe how our notions of literacy must expand to address a rapidly changing information landscape where information is networked, digital, and overwhelming.

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Dave Whyley, Learning Technologies Headteacher Consultant, Wolverhampton LA
How should the 21st century learning landscape evolve? How do we meet the challenges of the ECM agenda, the 2020 vision report and BSF; not to mention the challenges of the growing confidence of a whole generation of ‘Digital pioneers’? Wolverhampton has risen from relative obscurity in the field of learning using technology in the last five years. At the core of this progress is a dynamic vision for learning around which many of the recent developments in teaching and learning with technology are beginning to coalesce. Learner voice has been key to many of the innovative developments within the LA, as have key partnerships with the commercial world and other LAs. This presentation will explore the way in which one small LA is rising to the challenge of transforming learning for a whole generation of 21st century citizens who expect mobility, creativity and instant access to their learning and their learning community.

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Clunbury Church of England Primary School, Shropshire

School staff will share their experiences in developing a whole school approach.

Mary Le Breuilly, School Improvement Adviser ICT, Solihull LA
This session will look at how an enquiry-based learning approach to personalisation is being implemented in some classrooms in Solihull. It will look at the planning and resourcing of personalised learning, the use of ICT as part of the learning process and at student and teacher reaction to the approach.