THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS...
OUR CHALLENGES This is a culture change not a technology project 1.Understanding the place of technology in schools 2.Identifying educational areas to enhance 3.Aligning changes with our ethos
UNDERLYING ASSUMPTIONS • Everyone knows How, Why & When to use technology • Pupils will instinctively choose to use it for learning • Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants • Technology can...so it will
T-PACK A TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION FRAMEWORK
EDUCATION IS EVOLVING DUE TO THE IMPACT OF THE INTERNET. WE CANNOT TEACH OUR STUDENTS IN THE SAME MANNER IN WHICH WE WERE TAUGHT.
CHALLENGE 1: THE PLACE OF TECHNOLOGY • Engrained learning habits • Function perception • From passive to active • Being disruptive without being disruptive
DISRUPTIVE WITHOUT BEING DISRUPTIVE
GIVEN THE UNCERTAINTIES THAT ACCOMPANY CHANGE, EDUCATIONAL STAKEHOLDERS WILL ALWAYS FAVOUR THE STATUS QUO ANDREAS SCHLEICHER DIRECTOR OF THE DIRECTORATE FOR EDUCATION AND SKILLS
CHALLENGE 2: AREAS FOR ENHANCEMENT • Feedback & Assessment • Independent learning • Collaboration • Personal Organisation
CHALLENGE 2: AREAS FOR ENHANCEMENT • Feedback & Assessment • Independent learning • Collaboration • Personal Organisation
CHALLENGE 2: AREAS FOR ENHANCEMENT • Feedback & Assessment • Independent learning • Collaboration • Personal Organisation
CHALLENGE 2: AREAS FOR ENHANCEMENT • Feedback & Assessment • Independent learning • Collaboration • Personal Organisation
CHALLENGE 3: ALIGNING CHANGES WITH ETHOS • Blended Learning - choosing the right tool for the job • Personalisation - pupils having improved control over time, place, path, or pace of learning • Supporting existing good teaching practice
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS A PERSON WHO INCITES AND FEEDS YOUR CURIOSITY; MACHINES CANNOT DO THAT IN THE SAME WAY THAT PEOPLE CAN
CRANLEIGH’S DIGITAL CLASSROOM
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Every pupil will bring an iPad to every lesson
• Improved Audio Visual on the ‘teaching wall’ • VLE for content, assessment and feedback delivery • Classroom resources can now extend to Prep & home and digital work set across the curriculum
Example of a Geography Teaching Wall
WE NEED TECHNOLOGY IN EVERY CLASSROOM AND IN EVERY PUPIL AND TEACHER’S HAND, BECAUSE IT IS THE PEN AND PAPER OF OUR TIME, AND IT IS THE LENS THROUGH WHICH WE EXPERIENCE MUCH OF OUR WORLD - DAVID WARLICK
KNOW THY IMPACT
(John Hattie)
Group discussion • What will success look like? • How can impact be measured? • What pupil outcomes do we value?
KNOW OUR IMPACT • Pupils & Staff feedback • Research • SMART targets • Results?
THE TECHNOLOGY ITSELF IS NOT TRANSFORMATIVE. IT’S THE SCHOOL, THE PEDAGOGY, THAT IS TRANSFORMATIVE. - TANYA BYRON