ICT in the 21st School

Toby Holman

With the advent of blogging… young people are just as likely to seek feedback from their peers and strangers as they are their parents and teachers.

‘Their Space’ Education for a Digital Age

Where has ICT come from?

• Used rarely in the classroom

• Used often at home

• Used everyday, everywhere

• Used everyday in the classroom

• Used everyday at home

• Used everyday, everywhere

Has education been slow to take up?

Finding the facts

Why ICT in education?

• Although somewhat late on the take up, education is now an industry at the forefront of development

• Obvious use / potential

• Less obvious uses / potential

The past 10 years…

• The speed of computers has risen

• The cost of computers has fallen

• The skills of users has increased

• Increased access

The next 10 years…

• The speed of computers will continue to rise

• The cost of computers is likely to settle

• The skills of users will continue to rise

• Portability

• Increased access

• Moving from ‘taught’ to ‘investigative’

Suppliers (teachers)

• Important that teachers know and appreciate how students use ICT today

• The big shift in the next few years will be the shift from

TEACHER TO PUPIL

TEACHER WITH PUPIL

Users (students)

IPODING : IPHONING :WEB ENABLED PHONING : TEXTING :

BLOGGING : FACEBOOKING :SOCIAL NETWORKING : TWITTERING :YOU TUBING : GOOGLING : TALKING :

MSN’ING : MINDMAPPING : COLLABORATING : EMAILING :

NEWS READING : NEWS VIEWING:

Potential Impact

• If correctly used, ICT can have a positive impact on pupil performance

• Impact on learning

• Support mechanism

• 24 hour use > they will use it!

The PLN

• If you’re connected online, you begin to develop your own Personalised Learning Network

• Put simply, your network on various sources that help you learn

• It is estimated that the 15 to 20 age individual has 14 times as many networks as those aged 30 to 40

What’s your PLN?

• Where do you gain information from?

– List the sources of information that you [rely on] on a daily / weekly basis.

– Include ICT and non ICT source

– Include work and personal

TASK

Activity 1980’s 1990-2005 Present day

Student NotesDictation

BandaPhotocopied notes

Text BooksPowerPoint

Sources of Images

Slide projector(seldom used)

Video DVD(weekly use)

Digital projector(every lesson)

ResearchVery Little Some

reading of supplied information

TextMagazines

Newspapers

WWWDiigoBlogVLE

Learning style Didactic Group WorkIndependent Learning

Shared learningVLE

Computer useStaff use for marks

analysisComputer room

Laptops in own classroom

Communication Weekly MeetingsHourly Emails

Electronic schemes of work

The SLT challenge

• ICT use can become like the SAS

• It is important therefore to:

– seek clear goals for ICT

– ask for clarification

– measure the impact

– manage effective use across the school

– support and advise

– be aware of Government legislation

The SLT challenge II

• Should we embrace pupils PLN?

• If so, how? (when many of the sites are blocked)

• What stops us opening these sites up?

TASK

The SLT challenge III

• The role of ICT (and importance thereof) will continue to rise

• SLT must keep abreast of key developments

• The school need to address the needs of the user

Consumer technology

Technology will infiltrate every aspect of our lives – the mobile phone will become a gateway to global communications, and link seamlessly to the web and every screen in homes and offices. Supermarkets will restock your internet-connected fridge automatically. Expect a pervasive sense of being watched – probably not by government, but by big corporations.

Matt Warman, DT technology editor

Internet

There are now three times more mobile phone subscribers than internet users. In the decade ahead, mobile and web will collide to fulfil the promise of technology: helping people help themselves. The open exchange of information will lead to a more informed, engaged, and more empathetic global citizenry.

Biz Stone, founder, Twitter

IN ONE WORD…

COLLABORATIO

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