Sharing innovative practice: Schoolscape @ future project

Christina Preston, Paul Lynch, Bryn Holmes, Sarah Younie, Carmel O’Sullivan, Jose Ramos

With project leaders:

Mike Bostock, Mara Chrystie, John Cuthell, Marion Scott Baker, Carol Webb, Alistair Wells

Schoolscape@future Shaping the School of the Future

Minerva’s Aim To promote European co-operation in the field of

Open and Distance Learning (ODL) and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education.

     

Trinity College, Dublin

Schoolscape @ future UK, Ireland, Portugal

The 21st Century School• Building a vision for the 21st Century School in which

ICT is integrated into practice.• Working with successful schools and industrial experts

- to create models of integrated ICT practice in schools, colleges and training institutions.

The 21st Century Teacher• Building a “networked knowledge” between teachers,

researchers and industry • Disseminating innovative pedagogical practices using

ICT and effective school organisation and management.

Progression of Project to-date

• Practice based Research Methodology Handbook

• eCommunity eZines for knowledge sharing

• Case studies for Teachers’ Briefing Pack

• Two Dissemination Seminars with industry : UK, Ireland

• Evolving web presences and building professional knowledge

The 21st Century School

Citizenship integrated with ICTPrimary and secondary

Cross curricula opportunitycreativitythinking skillslife skillskey skillsinternational citizenship

The Schoolscape projectsPrimary and secondary

1. DO:Digital OpportunitiesKey Skills, Life Skills, Basic Skills, Special NeedsToshiba, Oracle

2. UnITy : eCitizens: Homelessness, World CitizenshipRebellion, Crisis, Creative Partnerships

3. Transforming Learning Celebrating Cultural DiversityMultimedia History ResearchA Sense of PlaceMusic for AllPromethean, Actis

Schools of the 21st CenturyConvergeance of Learning and Technology

• Laptops for teachers and students at home as well as at school

• Field work with wireless technology • Students publishing their views on the web• Digital video of students describing their learning

achievements• Web based learning environments being used for

motivating reading and writing with reluctant students • Teachers and students providing web resources on

World Citizenship

City CitizensStudent Councils

PartnersCreative Partnerships

AimIncreasing sense of community engagementDeveloping ownership of responsibility

Our School Council promotes citizenship

“Citizenship is important because we are learning to be responsible

and also to respect others. I am in the school council because

I help to improve the school by taking notice of

people's views and explaining them in Council meeting. “

Our School Council promotes citizenship

“There are children from other countries at our school so it is really important

that we respect others and their culture.

I think it good being a school councillor because together we can help the school.”

City CitizensHomelessnessChosen by London students

Artists in Residence Digital Video MakersComic strip artists

Story writers Story tellers

Web designers

PartnersCrisis, Creative Partnerships, Rebellion

The assistant digital video producer

My assistant is the most reliable assistant I have worked with. She understands all the issues of film production as well as team building.

All the equipment we need is set out and tested before the session. She has the team working before I arrive according to the work schedule that she has devised.

She is ten years old.

I feel really humble. I am learning so much

Mmoloki Chrystie : Film maker

UnITy : eCitizensAims

Using the web to :

Envision the futureShare diverse historiesBuild the present

PartnersDFES/Domex

Transforming Learning:using interactive whiteboards

Teachers thinking about the opportunities to use technology as a catalyst

• to encourage independent and collaborative learning

• to be confident as facilitators

First Stage : Leaflet and Websitewww.mirandanet.ac.uk/current_projects.htm

PartnersPromethean

The 21st Century

Teacher

Building the pedagogical model with teachers

The pedagogical model for building communities

Creating a professional ejournal where teachers can

• share their hypotheses on elearning pedagogy

• publish their evidence from practice based research

• reflect on the common themes

• reclaim the language of pedagogy

• influence the policy makers

This is the ejournal home page

The KaleidescopeNavigation Tool

The braided learning imagethe weaving together of

individual evidence to makeprofessional pedagogy and

policy

New uses of the ejournal idea in the SchoolScape community