Posted by Sol

Teachers of ICT (Information Communication Technology) in England are in the midst of recreating the subject they teach. The UK Government has announced that the current programme of study will not have to be taught from September 2012, and teachers have the freedom to teach ICT how they want during their lessons. So, what should they teach?

You could be forgiven for assuming that a typical ICT course in an English classroom tends to focus on u...

Posted by Sol

Many conferences about education and technology compare doctors to teachers and how medicine has become completely unrecognisable over the past 100 years, but teaching has remained almost untouched over the same period. Here is a checklist of common 19th and 20th Century teaching practices – how many do you see at your school? And which ones are still relevant to a 21st Century Education?

Posted by Sol

The internet is full of articles advising schools and teachers on the best way to incorporate tech into their lessons. But what if you don’t want to? This article highlights some tips to help facilitate this neglected issue…
 

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This is a weekly series, highlighting some of the news that the team have been following. We’ll be aiming to provide a short summary, including links to the sources. If you have any news you wish to share, please contact us via @liz21cln or info@21cln.org.uk

• #ukedchat Session 104 - What happens in your guided reading sessions?

Posted by Shirley

#RethinkingICT conference 2012

I was very fortunate to attend the very first Rethinking ICT conference earlier this week and even more fortunate to be in the company of several like-minded and ICT-passionate individuals. What I found very refreshing was that each speaker was only on stage for around 10 minutes. This meant that there were many speakers over the course of the day. Interestingly the topic of whether ICT should be rebranded ...

Posted by Sol

The 21st Century. Robot servants. Flying cars. Teleportation. Based on the films I saw at the time, these are things that I expected to be readily available to me by now. There was another thing I want added to the list: Technology fully embedded across schools and in classrooms. I grew up with Amstrads, Spectrums, Commodores, and Amigas, and fully expected that schools would naturally be filled with more advanced technology by the time my children were in school themselve...

This is a weekly series, highlighting some of the news that the team have been following. We’ll be aiming to provide a short summary, including links to the sources. If you have any news you wish to share, please contact us via @liz21cln or info@21cln.org.uk

•  #ukedchat Session 103 - Discussing the Draft National Curriculum

Posted by Liz

Let’s face it. Many schools are under-equipped in terms of ICT kit and technology in the classroom. Most Primary pupils have two short sessions of ICT a week, usually in the ICT suite. Most pupils do not have individual access to the internet or technology of any kind during the vast majority of lessons.

So why are we still worrying about giving children opportunities to access ICT at home via a Managed or Virtual Learn...

Posted by Shirley

I recently attended the E-learning foundation conference in London and was truly inspired by the various speakers and the general ambience of the day. Here’s a brief synopsis of some of the speeches...

Longfield academy (North Kent) spoke about how they have issued over 700 iPads to their pupils to enable learning to be anywhere and anytime, i.e. whenever the learners want to learn, rather than being restricted ...

Posted by Sol

I have been having many conversations with schools recently about the use of mobile devices in the classroom, and have changed my mind. 

Personally, I cannot live without my mobile. It has been my main source of communication and information for over ten years. I have even started to use it to create, edit, share and present documents using a range of mobile devices. It’s not a surprise to many people that most students feel the same way.I can absolutely s...

Posted by Sol

Every Tuesday, I'll be sharing some of my favourites that have been introduced to me via Twitter. These will be sites that I believe can make a useful and immediate difference to either how teachers plan and prepare their lessons, or offer an alternative way to teach their students.

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This is a weekly series, highlighting some of the news that the team have been following. We’ll be aiming to provide a short summary, including links to the sources. If you have any news you wish to share, please contact us via @liz21cln or info@21cln.org.uk

• Curriculum adviser says changes 'flawed'

This is a weekly series, highlighting some of the news that the team have been following. We’ll be aiming to provide a short summary, including links to the sources. If you have any news you wish to share, please contact us via @liz21cln or info@21cln.org.uk

• MP visit ‘happy’ Findon winners

Posted by Sol

Part of my current role is not just to introduce technology to teachers, but to show how to embed that technology so it makes a real difference to all the members of a classroom. Here are some of my tips.

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Posted by Sol

The internet has caused some amazing things to happen to education. Information is now available to anyone who is connected, and is available practically whenever they want. Teachers used to provide knowledge in their class, but that role is now diminishing. So how does that change how we teach?
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