This presentation outlines why schools should undertake digital transformation and how to do it, The presentation was given at the ISC Digital Strategy Conference at Radley College Oxon UK on Thursday 29th November.

1. Mark S. Steed,MA (Cambridge), MA (Nottingham), MSc (Ashridge-Hult Business School)
Director, JESS, Dubai
@JESSDubai
@JESS_Director
@IndependentHead
How to build a
#FutureSchool:
The key to Digital
Transformation in
Schools
ISCDigitalStrategyConference
RadleyCollege
Thursday29thNovember 2018:

2. Innovation and
Digital Learning
#FutureSchool
The JESS Dubai journey is
not about equipment.
It is about vision,
pedagogy, people,
training and
leadershipleadership
… law enforcement.

3. The key to
Digital
Transformation
inSchools
5. How? – Leading Digital Innovation
6. Remember: It’s about the Journey . . . .
4. How? – Leading DigitalTransformation
3. How? – People andTraining
1. Why? –Why not?
2. Why? – OurVision

4. #DigitalTransformation
PartOne:
Why?
#ISCDigital #FutureReady

5. Why Digital
Transformation?
“Where’s the evidence that teaching
using new technologies improves
student examination outcomes?”

6. Why Digital
Transformation?
Digital
Transformation as
a vehicle for driving
school
improvement
The quest for improved examination
outcomes wasn’t why we introduced new
technologies to JESS

7. What is the greatest
educational challenge that
top schools face today?

8. How do we square the circle?

10. Is the National
Curriculum fit
for purpose in
2018?

11. Why are we still teachingThe Great Fire of London at KS1?
. . . . especially in Dubai?

12. Innovation

13. C21Skills
creativit
collaboratio
n
communicatio
n
critical
thinking

14. #DigitalTransformation
PartTwo:
Vision:
NewCurriculum–New Pedagogy
#ISCDigital

15. C21Skills
creativity
collaboration
communication critical thinking

16. Curriculum 2.0:
Innovation
DesignThinking
80 minutes a week

17. Curriculum 2.0:
Innovation
DesignThinking
Year 7 Experiences
 Virtual pet (5 weeks)
 [Coding + Engineering]
 Making tools to solve a problem on a space ship.
UEA Mars Hope Probe. CAD/CAM + 3D printing (5 weeks)
 [Engineering]
 Robot arm (5 weeks)
 [Engineering]
 Creating and sending secrete messages (5 weeks)
 [Communication,Creativity + Invention]
 Create a self driving car (5 weeks)
 [Coding, Engineering,Creativity, Invention]
 Rockets (5 weeks)
 [Engineering]

18. Curriculum 2.0:
Innovation
DesignThinking
Year 8 and 9 Projects
 Auto watering system for plants (5 weeks)
 Temporary flatpack furniture (10 weeks)
 Desert survival kit (5 weeks)
 Self-driving cars (5 weeks)
 Egg landing (5 weeks)

19. New Pedagogy
+
We are paperless inYears 7, 8, and 9

21. Curriculum 2.0:
DigitalSkills

22. Key Lesson:
Educational priorities
must drive
all IT decisions

23. #DigitalTransformation
PartThree:
PeopleandTraining
#ISCDigital

24. SteveBambury:
Head ofDigital
Learning
and Innovation
NellyGamil:
DigitalSystems
Manager
LukeRees:
Head ofthe
IT User
Group
Ciaran Kelly
Head of
PrimaryIT
RodelPerez
Head ofIT
Support
Jithesh
Ramakrishnan
Network
Manager
Rachel
Blakemore
Admin and
Finance
JennieBurke:
Deputy
Headteacher
(Teaching&
Learning)

25. A Lesson from
History:
Those who
cannot remember the
past are condemned
to repeat it.
George Santayana
The Life of Reason:The Phases of Human Progress
Volume 1 (1905)

26. A Lesson from
History:
In the Maintained sector the introduction of IWBs was driven by Becta
and supported with significantGovernment funding from 2003-04.
The consequence was that by 2007 98% of secondary and 100% of
primary schools had IWBs.
The effectiveness of this initiative was patchy, arguably
because it was supply-driven and was most effective when
comprehensive training was put in place
A very
expensive
mouse?

27. Train the
Trainers
Steve Bambury’s whole-school role is:
 To support teachers in the classroom;
 To train teachers and ‘hold their hand’ until confident;
“No teacher left behind”
 To spread best practice throughout the school;
 To train lead practitioners/ trainers
in each department/ year group
SteveBambury:
Head ofDigital
Learning
and Innovation
Full-time
Non-teaching
Role

28. Key Lesson:
Find the
right people,
put them in the
right job
and don’t stop
training them.

29. #DigitalTransformation
PartFour:
Leading DigitalTransformation:
DigitalGovernance
#ISCDigital

30. What is Digital
Governance?
Digital Governance
“is concerned with promoting consistent and
coherent decision-making behaviour across an
organisation regarding
Information Systems (IS) and
InformationTechnology (IT)
in order to maximise the value the organisation
derives from IS/IT.”
Peppard and Ward, The Strategic Management of Systems
4th Edition, 2016, p.368

31. What is Digital
Governance?
3.The ‘How’ of Digital Governance – Outlines the process for deciding
between competing IS and IT projects and determines their priority.
2.The ‘Who’ of Digital Governance – Outlines who determines the IT
strategy and makes IT related decisions.
1. The ‘Why’ of Digital Governance – Ensuring the alignment of IT
development to the wider Educational and Operational Priorities.
4.The ‘What’ of Digital Governance – Outlines the compatibility and
specification rules for software, hardware and cloud service procurement
What is Digital Governance?
Four Aspects of Digital Governance
MSS

32. Digital
Governance:
Why?
Digital Governance allows an
organisation to align IS/IT
developments to the wider vision and
direction for the organisation.
Educational priorities
must drive
all IT decisions
MSS

33. Digital
Governance:
Who?
Who is making your IS/IT decisions?
Are those decisions aligned to theWhole
School Digital Strategy?
Can departments spend their budgets on
buying what they want?

34. Digital
Governance:
Why you need it
Some things to consider when you buy IS/IT:
 Does our network support it?
 Do you have policy of three quotes?
 What is the total cost of an IT purchase?
 What is the initial cost?
 What are the annual on-costs?
 What about Insurance?
 How long is the warranty? What does it cost?
 Who is responsible when it stops working?

35. Digital
Governance:
Who makes
decisions?
Who makes IS/IT decisions?
Jumeirah
IS/IT User
Group
Primary
IS/IT User
Group
Secondary
IS/IT User
Group
Whole School Strategy Group
Determines Educational Strategy
Admin
IS/IT User
Group
Whole School Digital Strategy Group
Sets DigitalGovernance Policies
Determines DigitalOperational Strategy

36. Digital
Governance:
Who makes
decisions?
The JESS Digital Strategy Group
1. The Deputy Head (Whole School Digital Strategy and SecondaryT&L)
(Chair)
2. The Digital Systems Manager
3. The Network Manager
4. The IT Support Manager
5. The Head of Digital Innovation and Learning
6. The Deputy Head (T&L – Jumeirah – User Group Chair)
7. The Deputy Head (T&L – Primary – User Group Chair)
8. The Finance Manager (also Admin User Group)
9. The Head of Secondary Digital Skills &Computing – User Group Chair)
10. The Head of Primary ICT and Computing
From September 2019

37. Rules for the
Organisation
that reflect the
Strategy
Apple in Primary
We have an Apple
environment in
Primary so we can
use Apps.
MS in Secondary
We have a Microsoft
environment in
Secondary for the
OneNote project

38. Rules for the
Organisation
that reflect the
Strategy
Permitted Software
All software must be
compatible with our
core systems:
Banned Software
So don’t allow
Google Docs and
GMail

39. TheStandard
Primary
Classroom
• 75” Touch-screen HDTV with 3
HDMI points
• Apple Desktop iMac
• Staff iPad Pro 64 GB + Case
• Apple TV
• Monitor, keyboard and mouse

40. TheStandard
Secondary
Classroom
• 84” Touch-screen HDTV with 3
HDMI points
• Surface Pro 4
• Miracast wireless dongle
• Surface Dock
• Monitor, keyboard and mouse

41. Purchasing,
Depreciation
Warranty and
Replacement
Policies
If I buy an iPad,
how long will it survive/ be useful
in a classroom
being used all day every day?
What happens when it breaks
down?

42. Purchasing,
Depreciation
Warranty and
Replacement
Policies
At JESS we have the following policies in
place for the purchase, maintenance and
replacement of Switches:
 ‘Straight-line’ Depreciation over 4 years
 i.e. the value of the switch on the accounts
reduces by 25% a year.
 Replacement after 8 years.
 Switches come with a 2Year Warranty
 But we will purchase a care pack
(extended warranty) for years 3 to 8

43. Cost of buying
the Switch in
2015-16
Cost of the annual care packs
Estimated
Cost of
replacing the
Switch in
2023-24

44. Digital
Governance
Document

45. #DigitalTransformation
PartFive:
LeadingDigitalInnovation:
TheFourStagesofHarnessingaNew
Technology
#ISCDigital

46. The FourStages
of Harnessing a
NewTechnology 1. Playing/
Learning
• Trialing
• What can it
do?
2.Enhancing
• How can we
use this add
to what we
do?
3.Innovating
• What does
this allow us
to do that we
couldn’t do
before ?
4.Disrupting
• How could
this change
education?

47. OurJourney
intoVR andAR
1. Playing/
Learning

48. OurJourney
intoVRandAR
2.Enhancing
Headsets After trialling several, we opted for theView-Master,
Affordable but robust and precise and specifically designed
for educational use

49. OurJourney
intoVRandAR
3.Innovating
VRPsychology
VRArt
VIVE trials: Psychology Students
usingThe Plank Experience
VIVE trials:Art Students using
GoogleTiltBrush

50. OurJourney
intoVR andAR
4. Disrupting
VRTeaching
LiveVirtual RealityTeaching using 360 degree camera in JESS Classroom.

51. Key Lesson:
Really Innovative and
Disruptive Pedagogy
involves Risk-taking

52. #DigitalTransformation
PartSix:
Remember: It’sabouttheJourney. ..
#ISCDigital

53. . . . . and
sometimes there
are potholes in the
road
SamsungTablets (sitting in the cupboard)
 10 x 7” SamsungTablets purchase in 2014
 Purpose was to teach MITApp Inventor
 This only works onAndroid, which we don’t have in school.

54. . . . . and
sometimes there
are potholes in the
road
iBeacons

55. . . . . and
sometimes there
are potholes in the
road
Some Challenges and Lessons Learned
from the OneNote Surface Project
1. Firmware issues with the BYOD Surface Pro
 Pupils bought their devices from 27 different countries
 There were 31 different versions of the Firmware.
2. Losing access to key content on OneNote
 Teachers leaving mid course with all theYear 12 work on their
OneNote account.
 Teachers getting married, changing name and email address
not having access to their previous work.
3. Pupil Induction -Training Pupils
 What happens if pupils miss the induction/ join the school late?
4. Permissions issues with parents
 Parents refusing to allow NetSupport software onto the
devices

56. Are we there yet?
Leading Change
John Kotter Leading Change (2006)
1. Establishing a Sense of Urgency
2. Forming a Powerful Guiding Coalition
3. Creating aVision
4. Communicating theVision
5. Empowering Others to act on theVision
6. Planning for and Creating Short-termWins
7. Consolidating Improvements and Producing
Still More Change
8. Institutionalizing New Approaches.

57. 2 finalthoughts:
IT IS not going
away World Economic Forum
January 2018

58. 2 finalthoughts:
Don’t forget the
widget
We have a responsibility that young
people are #FutureReady
Schools are in the future business.

59. Mark S. Steed MA (Cambridge), MA (Nottingham), MSc (Ashridge-Hult Business
School)
Director of JESS Dubai
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Twitter: @JESS_Director
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