Speaker: Martin G. Bean, General Manager Education Products Group, Microsoft Corporation
Successful implementation of technology in education requires a combination of courage, vision, leadership, pragmatism and stamina. In this session Martin will look at the history of innovation in education and contrast that with an overview of innovative technology that has the potential to add significant value to education over the next decade. Ray will introduce examples of breakthrough technologies and challenge the audience to think about its application. Martin will conclude by introducing a rich set of case studies that provide thought provoking examples of how real innovation is taking place today in the United Kingdom.
Speaker: Steve Moss, Strategic Director - ICT, Partnership for Schools
The session will examine the challenges of Innovation, Change Management and Transformation in relation to the ICT element of the Building Schools for the Future programme. Taking Futurelab’s recent publication “Promoting Transformative Innovation in Schools” as it’s starting point, the seminar will engage participants in discussion around the particular challenges facing local authorities and schools as they seek to develop transformational ICT solutions through BSF.
Speaker: Adrain Metcalf, Senior Adviser/Inspector for Strengthening Community and ICT, Blackpool CSA
The session will focus on 1) Blackpool since it became a unitary authority and how ICT has been developed in relation to teaching and learning. 2) How and why we are developing mobile technologies in the way we are. 3) Two examples from Blackpool Schools (St Kentigerns Catholic Primary and Devonshire Primary). 4) Finally the impact of the learning platform in developing collaboration and the use of netbook technologies to enable greatly increased access for pupils.
Speakers: Chris Smith, Educational Consultant, Education Project Asia and Leon Cych, CEO, Learn 4 Life
The emergence of Virtual Worlds is slow but steady in the education sector. This is still a very new area with lots of innovation taking place. Leon Cych and Chris Smith will be communicating Blackpool to Thailand using this technology.
Leon will facilitate a session using Second Life and talk to Chris Smith about the International Schools Island. We will show a brief video, some features of both Islands and take questions from the floor.
Speaker: Dan Buckley, Director of Research and Development, Cambridge Education
The first Learning and Teaching World forum held in London in January 2009 stated as the top priority for education globally the need to find reliable ways to assess 21st century learning skills at scale using ICT as these will form the basis of personalisation and educational design in the future.
Personalisation by Pieces has achieved this goal with 10,000 children since its launch in May. See for yourself how PbyP works, the thinking behind it and how the eighty schools so far involved are already witnessing transformation.
In considering the challenges of e-learning, discussion and solutions often focus on older children.
But what are the needs of young children born into a digital society?
What is happening in the Early Years?
There are a wider range of digital tools easily available to families and Early Years settings, digital cameras, digital video cameras, sound recorders and online web 2.00 tools.
How are these settings responding to and reflecting the digital world the children are born into?
In the session we’ll explore how settings globally are responding to the challenges of creating 21st century learning environments for 21st century citizens.
The blog for Tricia’s presentation “Early Learning in a Digital Age” can be found at
http://eyict.blogspot.com/
This serves as a place for background references and link to follow to the actual mindmap presentation
Speaker: Sheila Crew, Director of Bristol CLCs with Mike Treby and Penny Russell, Classroom Practitioners, Henbury School Bristol
The Hande-Learning project in Bristol secondary schools has involved supporting 1400+ students and teachers with PDA/Handheld computers. This is an ambitious secondary project and has been monitored by Professor Angela McFarlane’s research team at Bristol University. The session will refer to findings in the final Becta report which has recently been published. The pilot has been extended to 14 Bristol secondary schools as part of the Computers for Pupils and Home Access initiatives.
The session will include presentations by classroom practitioners Penny Russell and Mike Treby, who will demonstrate the impact of Handheld computers in the English classrooms of Henbury School Bristol.
Speaker: Matthew Nall, MIS Programme Manager, Cambridgeshire ICT Service
Over the last few years, a school’s Management Information System has ceased to be the preserve of school administrators and now forms a key part of the school’s strategy from classroom management to school improvement and parental engagement. This seminar will focus on three aspects of this transition:
• Use of the MIS by classroom teachers
• Secure remote access
• Real-time reporting for parents
The seminar will draw on experiences of working with Cambridgeshire schools.
Speaker: Ollie Bray, Deputy Head Teacher, Musselburgh Grammar School (East Lothian Council)
This session will talk about example of good practice in computer games based learning in Scottish schools. Many of the primary and secondary case studies will be based on projects that have taken place in the Musselburgh cluster, East Lothian.
Examples will include how the schools have used games such as Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training, Big Brain Academy, Drawn to Life, Nintendogs, Guitar Hero, My French Coach, Buzz the Schools Quiz and Hotel Dusk (a DS interactive graphic novel).
Most important the presentation will be lively and motivating and any of the examples given will be able to be replicated and scaled up by any school.
Speaker: Martin G. Bean, General Manager Education Products Group, Microsoft Corporation
