The session will look at practical methods for sharing and collaborating within the classroom and at home. In the main j2e.com will be used to illustrate the principles. Attendees will be welcome to participate in live collaboration and sharing and will need a wireless Java enabled de-vice to do so.
Last year’s session at the conference (Whatever will they think of next?) looked at a range of new technologies and pedagogical implications. This year, we have invited a school to come along and show how they are being used to support learning and pedagogical change.
We will take a look back at new technology announcements since the last Naace conference, and take a look forward at the implications for learning.
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.
