Breakout Session 1: Change Management
Speaker: John Parkinson, Northgate
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Breakout Session 2: Secondary experience with handhelds in Bristol Schools
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.
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Breakout Session 3: MIS comes out of the office
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.
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Breakout Session 4: Learning with games in Scottish 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.
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Breakout Session 5: The Bluffers guide to Functional Skills
Speaker: Jonathan Wells, Founder of Guroo Ltd
The Buffers Guide to Functional Skills will introduce delegates to the key principles of Functional Skills in a (relatively) light hearted way. Starting with where the qualification sits within the 14-19 curriculum and then looking at the impact that Functional English, Mathematics and ICT will have on teaching and learning using examples from all subjects.
By the end of the session, delegates should be able to explain with confidence why Functional Skills will be so important and how the introduction of Functional Skills will impact on ICT as a subject.
The Bluffers Guide will be quite fast moving, perhaps a little controversial in places and it does require some delegate participation.
There is no presentation for this session. Jonathan distributed handouts to delegates. To get a laminated copy please contact info@guroo.co.uk
Session Handout - bluffers-guide-to-functional-skills-by-guroo
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