Our revised AUP is 6 months old so it seemed a good time to reflect on progress so far. When I originally researched revising the AUP no-one who had designed similiar 'respect' based AUPwould respond. Did they ever launch them? Anyway we did launched in September and the problems are listed below: None. It's simple, easy to apply and for students to understand. As I anticipated in practice very few students break the policy other than their use of mobiles. Which of course is covered. If anyone...
Once you realise the ICT Staff Audit has no clothes...you can start again. So what's the point in the traditional ICT staff audit? Do we really care if the HOD of Art is competent in databases? Or is her use of blogs, apps and smartphones a more relevant skillset for 2012? If you see the future of ICT in terms of mobile devices connected to the cloud and used in collaboration, what are the skills a teacher really needs? It's easy to chuck something over. It's a bit harder to think what to replace it with. All the...
Distraction Technology: a technological development hailed as the answer to the woes in education which invariably joins hoola hoops and deeley boppers in the cupboards in the forgotten storeroom...
This is going to be a pivotal year in the evolution of IT in education. Gove having taken the knife to a decade of 'certainties' has effectively put everything up for grabs and although the Computer Science* wing is currently carrying the debate, it's clear Gove hasn't given up on ICT. By losening the grip of the hardware inustry on the curriculum, there is now an opportunity to throw everything out and start from the blank piece of paper. And it's learning that is the core not operating systems or devices. Or computer...
Re: [MirandaLink] current discussion about the place of Computer Science in the National Curriculum for England Inbox x Miranda x Stephen Heppell stephen@heppell.net 21:18 (12 hours ago) to itte, mirandalink All, I am clear that the argument for CS in the English curriculum is already won in Whitehall. There will be announcements, probably at BETT. And there is a very clear policy...
The danger of infographics is that they can become too suprficial and end up defeating the objective. A case in point is this recent Siege of Leningrad infographic from RIA Novosti. (See http://en.rian...
This weekend I've been trialling Google Chromebook as a 100% laptop replacement so see what it's capable off, and whether to invest in a class set for a pilot. This blog has been entirely written on...
Nostalgia may not be but it used to be, but this Infographic from ColourLovers is a very gaudy trip through the past of great use as a starter. Alas, the wooden Atari doesn't make an appearance and...
Over 30 years in IT including stints with Cable & Wireless, BT and GE as well as a variety of Schools in many roles including the first Academy. Been involved in launching email, the Link ATM network and despairing at an MD who told me in 1991 "This Internet thing, it'll never take off."
Currently looking at mobile technology, infographics and harnessing Web 2.0 and apps more effectively. And leaving Learning Platforms behind on Platform 9¾ . 
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