Why wait for BSF?
The Technology Solution
Paul Hynes, Programme Leader, SSAT
paul.hynes@ssatrust.org.uk
What is the issue?
Top tips for addressing the issues
What is the issue?
Top tips for addressing the issues
Fiction
Press
Free
essays
Rate my
teachers
MSN
Ban them?
or
Use them?
YouTube
ShoZu
Flickr
MySpace
‘Drive thru’ education?
“Cereal products like Cornflakes cannot be consumed on
the road and are thus losing markets shares in the US.
The consumer wants mobile, finger-friendly food which
does not need a knife, spoon or a fork”
(Justesen, 2002)
“I’ll take
that lesson
to go”
The 2007 Illinois Institute of Design think tank on Schools in the Digital Age
“Kids lead high tech lives outside school and decidedly low tech
lives inside school. This new ‘divide’ is making the activities
inside school appear to have less real world relevance to kids.”
“Kids are increasingly motivated and engaged by what they learn in
out-of-school programmes and in their virtual online lives, and
mechanisms for capturing and enabling them must be found.”
Technology use
in schools
“a crisis of relevance”?
Technology use
outside school
What is the issue?
Top tips for addressing the issues
Tip 1 – Simple uses
Computer games as
learning tools –
using and making
How can student
response systems
help?
Augmented reality
What is the most
effective classroom
ICT option?
Cheap, free,
quick and easy
Collaborative tools –
blogging, forums,
chatrooms, wikis
Podcasting – teachers
and students
Digital video –
teachers and
students
Embedding online
applications
Virtual worlds in the
curriculum
Tip 2 - Students as...
• Resource developers – ‘pimp my course’
• VLE champions
• Mentors, Coaches and Motivators
• Forum and chatroom moderators
• Lesson evaluators
• Classroom support
• INSET day leaders
• Litter pickers ?!?!?
Shallow
Learning
Deep
Tip 3 - What is good?
Whiteboards? 3D cinemas?
Poor VLE use? Good VLE use?
Swap
traditional
practices
with ICT
Engage
learners
by using a
richer mix
of media
Empower
learners to
Change the take control
content,
of their own
process and
learning
Deepen
location of
learning
through the learning
use of ICT
Empower
Extend
Enhance
Enrich
Exchange
Passive
Pupil engagement
Active
NCSL 2007
Tip 4 – Student-owned devices
•View MS Word docs
•View MS Excel spreadsheets
•Listen to Audio files
• Augmented Reality
•Subscribe to RSS feeds
•Take photos (inc. macro mode)
•Record video
•PSP specific learning resources
•eBook reader
•View photos and video
•View PowerPoint presentations
•Access Internet wirelessly
•Record audio podcasts
•GPS system
•Connect to a monitor/projector
•Voice over IP
•(They play games as well)
Student-owned devices
The future ICT budget
Student-owned devices - total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Initial cost
• Technical support cost
• Training
• Disposal cost
• Insurance
• Classroom setup? Flexible use? Logon times?
• Sustainable wireless infrastructure
• Use of online applications
• Learning resources and activities in appropriate formats
Tip 5 - Narrowing the digital divide(s)
• Home Access Programme £300 million
• E-Learning foundations? Parental contributions?
• Pay for it yourself?!?
• What is the extra impact of a student owning a device?
Tip 6 - Tackling within-school variation
• Do your departments know what each
other are doing?
• How do they share what works and what
doesn’t?
• Have your staff had an e-learning
experience?
Tip 7 - The Wow
3D Games authoring
Virtual worlds are coming…
The wow - Augmented reality
- www.learnAR.org
- Cheap, simple and flexible
- engaging for students?
- what is the potential?
Tip 8: Make sure your
technical team are with you
• Are they still fit for purpose?
• Do they enable or block? Do they lead or follow?
• Audit their work - do they see the positives?
• See ICT Register and (BECTA) FITS work
Challenge:
What are you going to do
NOW to address the gap?
Technology use
in schools
Technology use
outside school
Make a pledge!
paul.hynes@ssatrust.org.uk