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Simple Solutions to Using ICT - What Works and What Doesn't.
Russell Ingleby, NAACE
This session will ask the question: How do you, as an ICT coordinator, manage
the vast range of skills and attitudes towards ICT in your school. The
session may not provide all of the answers but it will provide a few steps
along the way to finding them.
• Former chair, The Association for ICT in Education (ACITT)
• Executive member without portfolio, Naace.• ICT co-ordinator, Westmoor Junior School.• ICT co-ordinator, Cooper Lane Primary, Bradford.• ICT co-ordinator, Woodroyd Middle School, Bradford.
Managing ICT.• A unique curriculum
area.• Co-ordinating ICT or
managing IT?• A decade of
challenges.
Managing ICT
Managingresources
Managing
staff
QCAplanning
OFSTED
National Curriculum
E-learningcredits
Laptops forteachers
Computers for Teachers
Broadband
Networks
IWBs
NGfL
NoF
Thechallenges
E-learning credits
E-learning credits.
How are your shelves holding up?
Software
TrainingInstallation
and configuration
E-learning credits
Interactive whiteboards.
Around the world, interactive whiteboards have become the Marmite of ICT: people either love them or hate them, with little ground in between.
But much of the world watched our whiteboard enthusiasm open-mouthed: “You bought how many? Why?” would be a typical reaction.
Stephen Heppell (Education Guardian 10th January 2006)
Memberof staff
Redecoratethe
school
Excellence& enjoyment
Cover for PPA time
Re stock the library
£24,000
Interactive whiteboards.
“The bulbs are very, very expensive…This was an unexpected cost when we were provided with the boards.”Lois Gunby, ICT coordinator Brampton Ellis Junior School (Education Guardian 10th January 2006)
Interactive whiteboards.
Moreover, all the schools equipment arrived simultaneously. “It’s all reaching the end of its life at the same time. We can’t afford to replace it all at once. This is a nightmare, as we have all got used to having all the technology in school.”Lois Gunby, ICT coordinator Brampton Ellis Junior School (Education Guardian 10th January 2006)
Interactive whiteboards.
The Internet in schools.
Dial-up
ISDN
Broadband
Content
Websites & email
Filtering
Duty of care?
• ??% of 9 to 19 year olds have accessed the internet from a computer at home
• ?? % have internet access in their bedrooms
• ??% of weekly users aged 9 to 19 have sent pictures of stories to a website.
LSE survey in 2005, as reported in The Times 22/12/2005
The Internet in schools.
• 75% of 9 to 19 year olds have accessed the internet from a computer at home
• 19 % have internet access in their bedrooms
• 17% of weekly users aged 9 to 19 have sent pictures of stories to a website.
LSE survey in 2005, as reported in The Times 22/12/2005
The Internet in schools.
• ??% of daily and weekly users aged 9 to 19 have come into contact with online pornography.
• ??% have seen a pornographic pop-up advert while doing something else.
• ??% have accidentally found themselves on a porn site when looking for something else.
LSE survey in 2005, as reported in The Times 22/12/2005
The Internet in schools.
• 57% of daily and weekly users aged 9 to 19 have come into contact with online pornography.
• 38% have seen a pornographic pop-up advert while doing something else.
• 36% have accidentally found themselves on a porn site when looking for something else.
LSE survey in 2005, as reported in The Times 22/12/2005
The Internet in schools.
• ??% have received pornographic junk mail
• ??% of daily and weekly users aged 9 to 19 have received unwanted sexual comments online or by text message
• ??% have given out personal information to someone they met online.
LSE survey in 2005, as reported in The Times 22/12/2005
The Internet in schools.
• 25% have received pornographic junk mail
• 31% of daily and weekly users aged 9 to 19 have received unwanted sexual comments online or by text message
• 46% have given out personal information to someone they met online.
LSE survey in 2005, as reported in The Times 22/12/2005
The Internet in schools.
• ??% say they have made untrue claims about themselves online.
• ??% of home internet users aged 12 to 19 have taken action to hide their online activities from their parents.
LSE survey in 2005, as reported in The Times 22/12/2005
The Internet in schools.
• 40% say they have made untrue claims about themselves online.
• 63% of home internet users aged 12 to 19 have taken action to hide their online activities from their parents.
LSE survey in 2005, as reported in The Times 22/12/2005
The Internet in schools.
How do you, as an ICT coordinator, manage the vast range of skills and attitudes towards ICT in your school.
The session may not provide all of the answers
How do you, as an ICT coordinator, manage the vast range of skills and attitudes towards ICT in your school.
The session may not provide all of the answers but it will provide a few steps along the way to finding them.
Acknowledge that not all staff have the same range of skills or interests that you have.
The regular practice of skills embeds them.
Start small and build small bites at a time.
Be prepared for the unexpected. Presume nothing.
Adults are like children and every ability from SEN to G&T will be present on your staff.
Differentiate and be prepared to teach it in at least ten styles (and then repeat it all again!)
An attitude may mask insecurity, it’s hard to admit you don’t know.
Work alongside people and at their level (co-coaching)
Slow down, fast demonstrations leave people confused.
You know your staff best so you’ll train them the best. Do you really need to bring in outsiders?
Lead by example; be the epitome of all things ICT…
….but be prepared to admit you get it wrong sometimes!
By being persistent,
Using SMART targets,
Giving a context for use.
Offering continuous support.
Getting colleagues on board with new ideas.
Support in an enabling way. (Show me how.)
Good quality technical support also available and willing to help.
Listen and act upon needs.
Keeps patting us on the head.
Encouraging colleagues personal use.
Involving all staff in group sessions on new software.
Making sure laptops updated regularly with new programs and packages.
Showing an understanding approach
Being available to share problems and issues.
Clearly timetabling all ICT resources so that we’re ‘forced’ to use it.
Makes ICT the expectation not the exception.
Knows when to say NO.
Handy tip.
Westmoor Junior School• 35 networked computers, all less than 3 years old• Separate curriculum and admin servers• 2Mb, filtered broadband internet access• All teaching, and most support staff have their own, or access to
a laptop.• I Smart IWB and 2 Mimio IWB• 4 data projectors• Half a day a week technical support from the local Grammar
School plus 1 day a half term bought in support.• Good standard of ICT but cross curricular ICT an issue.
Handy tip.
Service.Things go wrong. The measure of a company is how they put things right when they go wrong. “Create a demon head teacher.”
Choose your suppliers carefully!www.stonecomputers.com
Handy tip.
www.schoolhousetech.com
• Resource Creation SoftwareBasic Facts Worksheet Factory
Basic Facts Bingo
Word Search Factory Lite
Handy tip.
http://hotpot.uvic.ca/
Resource Creation SoftwareThe Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the
World Wide Web.
Handy tip.
www.pfp-publishing.comWritten specifically for the ICT coordinator, the ICT Coordinator’s File is designed to help you improve and develop ICT provision in your school. It provides the support you need to ensure that ICT resources are used effectively to raise standards in your school. And it provides practical advice from specialists and experienced teachers in the field.
Handy tip.
Setup templates.A reading ages calculator.
A spreadsheet for spelling scores.
Handy tip.
Good software2Simple software (Developing Tray)http://www.2simple.com/
Sherston softwarehttp://www2.sherston.com/
Primary gameshttp://www.primarygames.co.uk/
Handy tip.
Consider the alternatives.Smart vs Mimio
Star Office vs Microsoft Office
Handy tip.
Join a professional association.www.naace.org
Check out the websites and join some mailing lists.New 2 computers etc
Get involved.Attend LEA meetings
Look around neighbouring schools.
Handy tip.
Email people things
Don’t give people excuses.
Make things electronicIEPs
Report writing
Assessment
Handy tip.
Try something different.
Cascade trainingYou learn
You teach one colleague in each year group
They teach the others
We’ve reflected.
Addressed the key question.
Offered some handy tips.
• ringleby@westmoor.kirklees.sch.uk• www.westmoor.kirklees.sch.uk• www.ingleby.me.uk
Don’t forget to fill out your evaluation forms.