Naace Strategic Conference 2007

Jim Brant, Curriculum Adviser and Sue Walton, Project Director

This is a unique test that allows pupils to demonstrate their ICT capability by answering a range of problems.

Three years of pilot tests have been completed and many teachers and organisations have been consulted.

Based on this experience this session will explore:

What is the relationship between this new test and the national curriculum programme of study and level descriptions? How might the testing of ICT capability affect teaching in the classroom?

What can schools do to allow pupils the best possible changes of success?

Laurie O’Donnell, Director of Learning and Technology

This session outlines the key strategic drivers for change in Scotland, touching briefly on the role that Learning and Teaching Scotland plays in relation to learning, teaching, curriculum, assessment and technology. The issues facing the education systems across the UK have much in common but divergent political and structural contexts have enabled different responses. This session will outline some of the thinking that has underpinned the development of Glow in Scotland as the focus shifts away from the technology towards realizing the promised benefits of ICT for learning and teaching.

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.