Term 1 one of the new academic year has come to a close – teachers and students alike are enjoying well earned holidays. In January, 2009, Becta produced Harnessing Technology for Next Generation Learning – Becta at work – A progress report 2008. It would be reasonable to expect that progress had been made on [...]
For many schools, the achievement of the ICT Mark is a demonstration to their wider communties that the school has achieved an excellence in how they use ICT to support their students’ learning.
It is not achieved by ‘ticking a few boxes’ but is easily obtained by those schools that demonstrate how fundamentally ICT is absorbed [...]
It’s easy! I’m not so sure but at least Becta do provide the guidance to ensure that technology is used to provide better learning experiences and outcomes for all learners. I have attached a summary document and in this series, ‘Enabling NGL in schools’ I’ll also add comment and information from Becta about each of [...]
Last year the Harnessing Technology e-strategy entered Phase 2 in response to the realisation that many schools and colleges were beginning to grapple with the problem of embedding the excellent ICT systems that had been created during Phase 1.
Amongst other things there were two key issues to be resolved.
Firstly, the issue of ensuring that a [...]
Challenges and issues identified from the research
Progress again, but parts of the system are hard to reach
The continuing challenge of access and learner skills
Low bases but big opportunity: parents and disadvantaged groups
Leadership and transfer of innovation
“A recurring theme across much of this review is that of leadership. … Building leaders’ understanding of the role of [...]
