Learning and Teaching Using ICT Regional, National and European perspectives

1. Learning and Teaching Using ICT Regional, National and European perspectives Roger Blamire European SchoolNet and WMnet

2. ICT in teaching and learning: replacement to transformation Five levels of technology adoption : • Familiarisation • Utilisation • Integration • Re-orientation • Evolution Source: Hooper and Rieber 1995

3. ICT in the region

4. 1: Role of WMnet • To connect schools in 14 LEAs to the National Education Network at broadband speeds • To support the educational use of broadband through • Regional projects, e.g. Crossover • Content and tools • A portal and community at www.wmnet.org.uk

5. 2: Broadband benefits • Fast, reliable and safe access to the National Education Network • Access to people: • video-conferencing and learning communities • Access to rich curriculum content: • Pathe archives, music and sound effects • Innovative applications, e.g. MindManager • Provides a value for money means for schools to meet educational and administrative targets

6. 3: Research evidence • 50% of schools connected; all by 2006 • Schools positive about reliability and speed • Increased dependency of teachers on broadband • More broadband use by subject teachers • Increases in confidence in teachers and learners • More Internet use in lesson planning Source: DfES, University of Lancaster

7. 4: Case studies Staffordshire primary “Children cannot believe their eyes” Interactive whiteboards, Espresso, GridClub Coventry secondary “Toe in the water .. Don’t have to be in a room” Video-conferencing, virtual learning environments Birmingham secondary “More interactive, do loads of things at once” Video-conferencing to tutor, online learning, forums Walsall Other school case studies on the WMnet portal

8. ICT in the UK

9. 1: Evidence Positive impact of ICT, but: • ICT not embedded • Gap between best and worst provision “unacceptably wide and increasing” “Significant impact” of broadband , but: • Raise awareness, focus on educational benefits Schools should • Develop e-portfolios • Ensure technical support Home ICT use has more impact on learners’ results than school ICT Source: OFSTED ICT in Schools, Impact2

10. 2: UK Schools at stage four? HMI School portraits: Cramlington Community High School Eggbuckland Community College Lent Rise Primary School See: http://schoolportraits.eun.org

11. ICT in Europe

12. 1: Evidence: how do we compare? Signed up to EU priorities: • e-learning programme • Comenius 2007: • 5% of EU school pupils in joint educational activities Other countries: • 20% of teachers use email; • Main pupil ICT use is to obtain information from Internet • Scandinavia tends to lead Commonalities and differences • Good old days • IWBs Source: OECD

13. 2: Opportunities for schools in Europe • E-twinning and Global Gateway • EUN forums and networks • Ideas from Becta: Celebrating Cultural Diversity

14. 3: Searching for the school of tomorrow Netherlands No classrooms: home base and learning spaces USA: School as office Finland: The inquiry school Iceland: Distributed learning Spain: Home learning over a single broadband public network

15. Embedding ICT: some generalisations What works? Linking home and school First having a school / teaching philosophy or pedagogy Good leadership and effective communication “Networked autonomy” (learner, teacer, school …) A nationally articulated vision of the school What inhibits? Tradition, custom and practice, teacher as ‘private practitioner’ and regulation Starting with the technology ICT in itself does not cause change. Tight budgets

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