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: Steve Moss, Strategic Director - ICT, Partnership for Schools
