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Rm — Conference Presentation (January 2006)
27 slides from Rm's conference presentation, January 2006
Slide 1: Education in the Future: Is it already here?
Education in the Future: Is it already here? Tony Parkin ICT Adviser www.schoolsnetwork.org.uk www.specialistschools.org.uk
Slide 2: The Specialist Schools Trust
The Specialist Schools Trust • The Specialist Schools Trust is an educational charitable trust • The Trust has an affiliation network of 2,400 schools in England, including most of the 1,995 Specialist Schools • A national education organisation, also in part funded by the DfES to help deliver the G
Slide 3: Specialist Schools Trust: Excellence and Diversity
& Specialist Schools Trust EXCELLENCE AND DIVERSITY Distributed Personalised Learning Collaborative Concurrent
Slide 4: Autonomous learners…
Autonomous learners… • Secondary school pupils spend 4 times longer using ICT outside classroom than inside… (ImpaCT Study – Becta) • Motivation – working with media that engage and extend • 21st C e-literacy and media skills – Audio – Video – Graphics – Animation – Txt • Peer to peer communication
Slide 5: The Art of the Possible…
The Art of the Possible… • 1997 Jyoti Mishra under name of White Town showed possibility to the digital generation by creating No 1 UK hit ‘Your Woman’ in his bedroom • Your Woman was recorded in Jyoti's bedroom, using a £30 microphone. • At time of release, Jyoti was living at his parent's home in
Slide 6: dbass
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Slide 7: Individual work in audio/music medium promotes creativity and technical skills
• Individual work in audio/music medium promotes creativity and technical skills • Music = Currency of the generation • Internet offers a national stage • Autonomous peer-to-peer sharing and development • Product of industry and education…
Slide 8: Fanfiction.com
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Slide 9: Meanwhile back in the classroom…
Meanwhile back in the classroom… • If we have multimedia learning at home… does school have to remain a monomedia world? • Over to Kate to hear some of the ways RM are rising to meet this challenge….
Slide 10: The Digital Natives…
The Digital Natives… • Live in a multimedia world • Live in an online world • Can act as autonomous learners …. But what about the digital immigrants? …..how can we help the teachers….?
Slide 11: Bridging home and school
Bridging home and school • Distributed could match concurrent learning • Preferred media – audio, video, graphics, animation • Opportunities to use ICT to create, not just receive • Let’s look at example of use of audio – possibly in English or Media Studies…
Slide 12: RadioWaves training and tutorials
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Slide 13: RadioWaves
RadioWaves • Real student radio • Audio medium – content-free tool • Individual skills meet collaborative working • Internet provides national collaboration and sharing • Product of industry professionals and education • Support for teacher and learner
Slide 14: Music tuition
Music tuition • Many pupils interested in creating music • Delivered both in school and outside • Shortage of music tutors and time • Need for self–assessment and extended practice • Need for coaching – motivation and correction • The joy of playing to an audience
Slide 15: Gigajam lesson screenshot
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Slide 16: On-line music tuition? Gigajam live on LGfL
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Slide 17: Strategic thinking in schools…
Strategic thinking in schools… SLICT (Strategic Leadership in ICT) • Trust CPD team are providers for the DfES secondary headteachers SLICT programme, launched by NCSL and Becta teamSLICT • Trust have been working with NCSL and Becta on pilot programme for implementation teams from schools • School
Slide 18: SLICT & teamSLICT information
SLICT & teamSLICT information https://www.ncsl.org.uk/index.cfm?pageID=ldev- strategic-siict
Slide 19: ICT Register
ICT Register: http://www.ict-register.net/ • Register provides a unique support network of schools at the leading edge of use of ICT • Services are available to all schools – direct school to school • Services range from telephone calls or emailed advice to visits, audits, provision of classroom sup
Slide 20: Collaborative environments
Collaborative environments • Collaborative environments for teachers – Intranets – Content management tools – Monitoring , Assessment , Evaluation • Collaborative environments for students – More than content delivery tools – More than assessment and feedback (revision/ILS) – Multi-directional commu
Slide 21: Ballyclare 'Access to VLE' analysis
Ballyclare ‘Access to VLE’ analysis Years 10 and 11 • Monitoring numbers of users against the time of day • Vertical axis Numbers of Users • Horizontal axis Time of day Preferred learning time was between 9 and 10 pm.
Slide 22: Queensbury School & Technology College, Luton
Queensbury School & Technology College, Luton
Slide 23: Challenge: deliver a course without timetabled time
• Challenge - Deliver a course without timetabled time! • Solution - Staff produced online course (using Flash) • Students follow online curriculum at own pace • End of section self-tests (with identified target dates) • Informal support – text message, email, telephone to peers • Formal support – S
Slide 24: Distributed Learning
Distributed Learning • So technologies can help us link school-based e-learning seamlessly between school and home to allow us to fully exploit distributed and concurrent learning… • Over to Kate ….
Slide 25: Douglas Adams' take on technology
Douglas Adam’s take on technology … • Anything that exists in the world before you are born is part of the normal way in which the world operates. • Anything invented while you're between the ages of 15 and 35 is exciting, revolutionary - and quite possibly something you can get a career out of. • A
Slide 26: Building the rich virtual environment
Building the rich virtual environment
Slide 27: Tony Parkin
Tony Parkin Leadership & Affiliation Networks tonyp@specialistschools.org.uk