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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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Clunbury Church of England Primary School, Shropshire
School staff will share their experiences in developing a whole school approach.
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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 [...]
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Pam Finding, ICT Co-ordinator, Grange School, Kempston, Milton Keynes
In this session you will see how staff and pupils in a special school catering for children with moderate learning difficulties (MLD), and autistic spectrum disorders use ICT. You will see examples of ICT being used to support learning across the curriculum and with different age groups. [...]
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David Whyley, Learning Technologies Headteacher Consultant and Gavin Hawkins, Assistant Head, Stow Heath Junior School, Wolverhampton LA
Harnessing the natural enthusiasm of learners for mobile technologies, Wolverhampton’s Learning2Go scheme enables school children to use mobile technology in a fun and interactive learning environment to realise many of the aspirations of the five outcomes of the ECM [...]
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Richard Sandford, Learning Researcher, Futurelab
Futurelab have been commissioned by the DCSF Technology Futures Unit to investigate the question: ‘What might be the purpose, nature and organisation of education in 2025 and beyond?’ The scope of this programme is wide-ranging and challenging, comprising ongoing reviews of futures research from the UK and internationally, horizon scanning work [...]
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David Anstead, Specialist Adviser for ICT, Ofsted
What inspection evidence shows about good practice in ICT teaching and learning.
By the end of the session delegates will:
i. be aware of how Ofsted gathers inspection evidence about the quality of ICT provision in schools;
ii. understand what inspection evidence shows about the quality of ICT provision in primary and [...]
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Ruth Hammond, Safeguarding Manager, Becta
This presentation will consider the changing behaviour of children and young people online; the benefits, issues and risks of Web 2.0 technologies; the role of children’s agencies in developing safe policies and protocols and some of the key resources which are now available.
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