Naace Strategic Conference 2007

Jill Collison, Education ICT Adviser, Partnership for Schools

This session will look briefly at issues around the procurement of a learning platform, including use of the Becta Learning Services Framework. It will consider the transformation potential afforded by an area-wide learning platform procured within a BSF ICT managed services solution.

And finally will explore the value of third party content in support of teachers’ lesson planning and preparation.

Tim Scratcherd, Senior Partner, The School House Partnership

Modelling is a higher order skill, with applications across the curriculum. Modelling using ICT remains under developed throughout the secondary curriculum in particular. This session will give a comprehensive overview of all five different categories of model, examine the relationship between models and modeling, and look at model building processes, through a range of practical examples.

Michael Smith, Professional Development Coordinator, Forest School, Snarebrook

Michael will describe his own CPD journey in ICT to bring out strategic issues and offer an opportunity for future thinking.

This session will also investigate how collaborative learning environments and multiple modal mapping can enhance professional development.

Miles Berry, Headmaster, Alton Convent Prep

Drawing on his experience of implementing a virtual learning environments. Including blogging systems in primary education, Miles will discuss the contributions which learning platforms can make to extending the best practices of primary education into the home environment.

As well as a ‘digital show and tell’, to bring informal, independent and home-based learning into the school. He will discuss some aspects of the research and policy landscapes and explore some of the choices facing primary schools as they look to implement learning platforms in their own contexts.

Rachel Ager, County Adviser for ICT, Northamptonshire CC

This session will explore how we can and should value and build on the e-confidence children develop at home. This is set within the context of the Knowledge Society in which we now live. It will define the model of good practice that Northamptonshire has established which truly embeds ICT in the Foundation Stage Curriculum.

It will explore the challenges this model presents to schools as e-confident children move from the Foundation Stage through Key Stages 1, 2 and beyond

Byron Evans, Adviser, RTU

This presentation will report on a pilot programme involving forty-eight schools in Northern Ireland. The programme had as its main aim the exploration of an online collaborative community approach to develop the ICT competence of staff and to embedding ICT into the life and work of the school.

In the context of school development planning and whole school improvement.

Mary Le Breuilly, E-Learning Adviser, Solihull LA

This session will look at how the Authority has developed a shared definition and understanding of personalised learning and the significant role of ICT.

It will look at some practical examples, from learning platforms to e-mentors

Cathy Morgan, HMI, Ofsted

Using the findings from ICT inspections and surveys undertaken by HMI during 2005/6, this session will highlight how effective use of ICT can make a positive difference to the quality of teaching, learning and management in schools.

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Mark Bennison, Deputy Head, Westminster Academy

Embracing the RSA 21st century competency-based curriculum, learning is integrated and thematic; moving from the yearly theme of community, through global citizenship to enterprise in the first 3 years (KS3). Tutoring is vertical, e-learning embedded, through their Connetix Learning Environment; at its heart, an individual learning plan for all students.

Ina secondary school whose catchment is probably the most diverse in the UK; 75% of students are EAL, 35 main languages are spoken, Westminster Academy cannot help but embrace the agenda of global citizenship and has as a core vision, the importance of preparing its young people for a perspective which is global; economically, socially and technologically. In this session, Mark Introduces “school for a global future” showing how, working closely with organisations – MirandaNet and iNET – the global citizenship agenda comes to life.