Developing a coherent ICT strategy
for your school
Amanda Jackson
Inspector, Standards & Effectiveness, Computing & ICT
Havering School Improvement Services
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• Investigate what technology you should
invest in and the type of infrastructure to
support it. Where are the pedagogical
shifts?
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"If we teach today as we taught
yesterday, we rob our children of
tomorrow."
- John Dewey
philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
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What will the classroom of 2014 look like?
Tablets
Laptops
Desktops
Handheld devices/phones
BYOD
Raspberry Pi
Infrastructure???
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What do you want to achieve?
Using ICT to:
• Improve teaching & learning
• Support learning in and out of school
• Offer a range of choice and access
• Opportunity for disadvantaged
• Flexible working
• Manage data and improve efficiency
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Planning
• Vision – where do I start? http://www.naacesrf.com/
• Vision should support the strategic aims of the
school
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The importance of planning and
seeking opinion
• Who will be using it?
• What will they be using it for?
• What is most important? Battery life, access to
applications/software, media (camera, sound, etc).
Rank them in order of priority and decide on any
non-negotiables before talking to suppliers
• Avoid technical terms and talk in functional
language. ‘I want to be able to use it on the football
pitch to record ...”
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Planning – functional specification
DfE - Buying specific goods & services: Developing an ICT
infrastructure - ‘Functional requirements for ICT services’
http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/adminandfinance/procurement/b006
9801/buying/ict/developing-an-ict-infrastructure
As it is functional it doesn’t date
like the technology does
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Planning – What do I need to
consider?
• Reliability
• Coherence – consider differing needs of teachers and
learners as well as existing equipment
• Accessibility
• Affordability and sustainability
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Tablets
• Which tablet? Practical things to consider:
– insurance, cases, safety, storage, link to
display/IWB, saving work
• http://www.tabletsforschools.org.uk/
• http://www.tablet-academy.com/
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Pedagogical Shift
• Teacher expertise and knowledge will determine
how quickly they can embrace pedagogical change.
• Change may take some time, as teachers understand
the potentials of the technology and teaching and
learning.
• Teachers should aim, over time, to implement
strategies that will enrich or transform traditional
classroom practices.
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Pedagogical Shift
• mobile devices enable students into
enquiry based, experimental and
knowledge building learning. Will this
affect how the teacher plans lessons,
their role in the lesson?
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People – where are the pedagogical
shifts?
• Training and familiarity is vital to the success
of any changes
• Cost this in with any purchases
• It is hard to predict how everyone will use
new technology, if they cannot use it the way
they want, then may bypass or ignore change management issues
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Infrastructure
• It is important to have a network that is
reliable to support rapid growth of
devices
• Must be robust
• Consider an ICT healthcheck
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Cloud
• Flexible
• Not tied to out of date infrastructure/software
• Reduction in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
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Infrastructure for the new Computing
Curriculum
Some suggestions here:
http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/data/uploads/
CASInfrastructure.pdf
E.G. how to cope with
different network
configurations required for
teaching CS. Conflict
between teacher and
technical team.
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Evaluation
• Will you use a pilot phase to trial any
new equipment? Give them to a few
teachers and pupils to try out. ICT
Champions.
• How will you measure success?
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Thank you for your valuable time
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