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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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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Chris Davies, ICT Strategic Consultant, CYPS, London Borough of Lambeth and David Denny, Business Manager, RM
Chris will talk about the importance of locating Universal Home Access within the BSF programme and the work of the Foundation in developing a sustainable model. Currently the Foundation is working with Archbishop Tenison’s School and the Lilian Baylis Technology [...]
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Darren Atkinson, Principal Education Consultant, Edunova Ltd. and Jenny Orton, Educational Technology Consultant, Texas Instruments
Learning today is fast, dynamic, multi-platform and mobile and young people are immersed in a technological world that is often switched off at the school gates. Darren Atkinson will share the learning highlights from pilot studies conducted in secondary and primary [...]
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Professor John Stein, Professor of Neuroscience, Oxford University
Modern understanding of how the brain learns will first be explained, together with how this varies at different ages. Then how this new knowledge can be used to actually help classroom practice will be discussed. More detailed discussion of how children learn to read and why so many [...]
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Posted in 14-00, Future Learning on Jan 31st, 2008 1 Comment »
Ray Fleming, Education Marketing Manager and Chris Poole, BSF Manager, Microsoft
We all know that technology continues to march forwards, whether or not we want it to. To some in education, that’s a challenge, and for others an opportunity. Microsoft is at the very heart of some of those changes, and this session will provide an [...]
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