Innovations at DSTC

1. Innovations at DSTC www.dtc.kent.sch.uk

2. What is the Rosalind Franklin Room? • Rooms formerly know as syn 1 and syn 2 re-designed and re-equipped • 19 I-pads with some preloaded apps, fast wireless internet, 2 IWBs (smart), 2 large flat screen devices Apple TV enabled • Series of round tables sitting 6 per table – can accommodate large groups and team teaching • It is rather colourful!

3. What is it for? • It is an experimental room • Using new technologies to facilitate collaborative learning, and active learning – away from the teacher dominated linear lesson. • Innovations TLC - Putting technology in the service of learning not for its own sake – honest evaluation of what works and what doesn’t shared with everybody at the end of this half term

4. What is the Rationale? • To achieve outstanding and beyond we must do something different. • We need to plan and prepare for what a 21st century ICT infrastructure might look like – for such an infrastructure to be in the service of learning we as teachers are an essential part of that planning process

5. What is the Plan? • A yearly budget for hardware and software • An Innovations TLC group who will plan, deliver and evaluate teaching and learning projects using the new room • The new room will be generally bookable through Spencer

6. TLC • Select a target group • Have a rationale for that target group linked to CDP priorities • Share ideas for how to use the new kit • Plan, deliver and evaluate a teaching project this half term using the RF room • Feedback to colleagues at Teaching and Learning Conference either with a show and tell or by setting a learning experience for colleagues using RF room