Keynote speech to ISBA ICT Briefing Day 14/02/2013 IBM Forum, South Bank

1. “New Technologies and how
they are changing how
Young People learn”
ISBA ICT Briefing Day
IBM Forum, South Bank
Thursday 14th February, 2013
Mark S. Steed, MA (Cantab.) MA (Nottingham)
Principal, Berkhamsted Schools Group

2. “New Technologies and how they are
changing how Young People learn”
Learning
ICT Strategy

3. Learning

4. “Structures create Cultures”
Governors
Head
Traditional
School SMT
Management
Model HoDs/
Curriculum
Coordinators
Teachers
Pupils

5. “Structures create Cultures”
Pupils
Teachers
Upside Down HoDs/
thinking Curriculum
Coordinators
SMT
Head
Governors

6. “Structures create Cultures”
Pupils
Teachers
Upside Down HoDs/ Education and
thinking Curriculum Pastoral Care
Coordinators takes place
here
SMT
Head
Governors

7. What do the following have in common?

8. They are all places where this happens:

9. A School as a “Place of Learning”?

10. Learning

11. Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere

12. How New Technologies are transforming learning:
Mobile Learning

13. How New Technologies are transforming learning:
iTextbooks

14. How New Technologies are transforming learning:
Wikipedia – “Wisdom of the Crowd”

15. How New Technologies are transforming learning:
“The Wisdom of the Class”
 Dylan Wiliam, Institute of Education
 Pupils learn more from each other than from
teachers
 ICT can provide a platform for collaborative
learning

16. How New Technologies are transforming learning:
Tools for Collaborative Learning
 Google Apps
 Free
 Internet/Cloud-based
 Comparable
functionality to the
MS Office Suite (ish)

17. Creativity as an expression of
Learning

18. How ICT is transforming learning:
Creativity is an expression of Learning
Using creativity in Learning:
 Blogs
 Presentations
 Movies
 Animations

19. How ICT is transforming learning:
Creativity is an expression of Learning
 AS-level French
 Christmas Task
 A response to
Coline Serreau’s
Romuald and Julliette
1989
 Alison Munro Y12

20. Learning on the Move
iPads in the Classroom

21. Animation Software
Madame, Je voudrais Bien sûr monsieur, ça
acheter une baguette, coûte un euro vingt.
s’il vous plaît. Merci.

22. Learning on the Move
iPads in the Classroom
http://www.essaacademy.org
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-20930195
http://www.apple.com/uk/education/profiles/essa/

23. The Future
Something to think about . . . . .
MOOCs are going to change the way
the next generation of pupils learns.

24. The Future
Something to think about . . . . .
MOOCs are going to change the way
the next generation of pupils learns.

25. The Future
MOOCs
A MOOC is a The Two biggest
 Mass
MOOCs are
 EdX
 Open
 Coursera
 Online
 Course

26. The Future
EdX www.edx.org

27. Coursera www.coursera.org

28. EdX Courses (not just resources!)

29. The Future
MOOCs – Opportunity or Threat?
Opportunity
 Excellent courses taught
by the world’s experts.
 Support Sixth form work
 Excellent resource for
staff INSET.

30. The Future
MOOCs – Opportunity or Threat?
Opportunity Threat
 Excellent courses taught  How long before these
by the world’s experts. received qualification
 Support Sixth form work tariffs?
 Excellent resource for  How long before
staff INSET. someone is producing
High Quality Online
Courses for Sixth
Formers for free?

31. ICT Strategy

32. What ICT Strategists need to put in
place to allow this to happen

33. “Structures create Cultures”
Pupils
Teachers
Upside Down HoDs/
thinking Curriculum
Coordinators
SMT
Head
Governors

34. How to ensure ICT transforms learning:
Who sets the ICT strategy?
Start with
the pupils
and the
teachers

35. How to ensure ICT transforms learning:
Who sets the ICT strategy?
Educational priorities must inform
ICT priorities

36. How to ensure ICT transforms learning:
Educational priorities inform ICT Strategy
Teachers want to
 Stream YouTube or ClickView clips
 Need excellent internet connection
 Make videos in lessons
 Need a media server
 Need a lot of storage

37. How to ensure ICT transforms learning:
Educational priorities inform ICT Strategy
Pupils want to
 Access the Internet on their Phones
 Need Separate WiFi structure/system
 Access work from home
 Need server structure that will provide
remote access from home

38. How to ensure ICT transforms learning:
Who sets the ICT strategy?
 ICT strategy cannot be seen in isolation – it
has to be part of a whole school strategy.
 ICT strategy is too important to be left to the
Network Manager.
 Someone in the School Leadership Team
needs to take strategic responsibility for ICT

39. ICT Capital Investment Priorities:
Four areas to consider

40. Investment Priorities:
Delivering in the Classroom
1. The best Internet connection you can afford
2. A fast, reliable network
3. A robust WIFI network
4. Media Storage

41. Investment Priorities:
Delivering in the Classroom
1. The best Internet connection you can afford
2. A fast, reliable network
3. A robust WIFI network
4. Media Storage

42. Investment Priorities
Web-based Learning Resources
 Learning Platform
 Google Apps
 Free
 Internet/Cloud-based
 Comparable
functionality to the
MS Office Suite (ish)

43. BYOD: Bring Your Own Device
Advantages
1. Pupils use the device of
their choice

44. BYOD: Bring Your Own Device
Advantages
1. Pupils use the device of
their choice
2. Martini Learning
Anytime,
Anyplace,
Anywhere

45. BYOD: Bring Your Own Device
Advantages
1. Pupils use the device of
their choice
2. Martini Learning
3. Cost Savings for the
School
• Limited Capital Investment
in end-user devices

46. BYOD: Bring Your Own Device
Advantages Disadvantages
 Pupils use the device of  Necessitates a cross-
their choice platform solution
 Cost Savings for the = Bring-a-Browser
School  Teachers can’t rely on
• Limited Capital Investment functionality for
in end-user devices classroom teaching
• Specialist equipment
(e.g. Dataloggers)
• Printing

47. BYOD: Problems
Incompatible Peripherals
 Dataloggers

48. BYOD: Problems
Tablets and iPads
 A paperless solution?
 School-wide print
solutions:
• Drop-box
(cumbersome)
• WIFI Printing
(expensive)

49. Investment Priorities
BaB: Bring a Browser

50. Direction of Travel?
 Mobile
 Cross-platform
 Web-based
 Martini Learning

51. Direction of Travel?
 Mobile
 Cross-platform
 Web-based
 Martini Learning

53. The Examination System
When was the last time that you did a
piece of work sitting in silence without
access to technology and the Internet?

54. Word-processors in Exams
 Exam Board
Regulations:

55. Word-processors in Exams
“Centres are allowed to provide a word
processor with the spelling and grammar
check/predictive text disabled to a candidate
where it is their normal way of working
within the centre, unless an awarding body’s
specification says otherwise. This also includes
an electronic brailler, an iPad or a pc tablet.”
JCQ General and Vocational Qualifications, Instructions for
conducting examinations 1 September 2012 to 31 August 2013.
Section 8.8 p.24

56. The Digital Examination Room
The Challenges
 Increased numbers
 Storage
 Failure
• Liability
 Power
 Noise
 Ergonomics
 Compatibility

57. The Digital Examination Room
Some Solutions
 Short-term leasing of
laptops
• Exam-build
• Pass costs on to
parents
 Sharepoint solution
using Infopath

58. Email: principal@berkhamstedschool.org
Twitter: @independenthead
Blog: http://independenthead.blogspot.com