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Harnessing Technology – A Strategy for Personalised LearningNorth West Education Technology Show November 2006
Norman Crawford Assistant Director e-Strategy, Becta
Harnessing Technology and Learning Platforms
• We know that those institutions that have adopted technology effectively get better results. They deliver higher achievement, better learning, more efficient teaching; they provide better information for, and communication with, learners and parents with a more streamlined and less bureaucratic administration. Currently, only around 15% of our educational establishments are in this position. “Harnessing Technology” aims to change this. This keynote session will also explore how learning platforms are central to achieving this vision for the future.
What the evidence tells us
Technology for learning helps raise standards
So, what’s the problem?
• Too few organisations take all the actions needed to reap these benefits
• Moral duty to each and every learner to ensure that:– All educational providers to get the best out of current and
future technologies to improve the quality of learning and raise standards
– All educational providers to regard using technology for learning as an essential but normal and integrated aspect of their teaching, learning, assessment and management practices
– All learners to harness technology: more choice and chances to learn in a way that suits them best
– All learners to have greater opportunities to learn inside and outside formal education
Knowledge Architecture
E-maturity
Personalised content
Strategic technology provision
A consistent system-wide framework to
guide delivery
A model for the deployment of
technology across the system
Driving a new model of content provision for
the individual
Supporting people and organisations &
measuring system level impact
DfES Technology Group - identified transformational themes to deliver key outcomes at system level
Strategic Technologies
• Aims to provide a value for money model for deployment of technologies across the system
• models of provision and support for institutions
• Through a single integrated national strategy for IT infrastructure, the National Digital Infrastructure
• a high bandwidth national education network • functional specifications to support interoperability• learning and management services to link home and
institution
Personalised Content
• Aims to enable personalised teaching and learning with a new generation of interactive resources
• enable practitioners to better design learning around the learner
• help learners build their individual capacity as effective learners
• Through:• a system wide policy articulating concepts and
approaches required for personalising content • tools and support for practitioners to create, adapt,
re-use and share quality digital resources • improved access to and discovery of digital resources
Knowledge Architecture
• Aims to provide consistent business processes, information flows and data standards:
• enable a single comprehensive overview of every learner thus better meeting the information needs of all key stakeholders (learners, parents, practitioners)
• Through:• a single, system-wide model of identity management• a strategy for developing e-portfolios • common standards for information and data flows
E-maturity
• Aims to increase the number of educational organisations making strategic & effective use ICT in order to improve educational outcomes
• Through:• creating models of maturity in the use of ICT so that all
those involved in services for children and learners understand the way in which ICT can contribute to the effective delivery of their business outcomes, and
• promoting the use of these frameworks and associated tools to educational organisations.
The e-strategy as an enabler
Every Child Matters
HE White Paper
Educational Outcomes
Transformational Government
e-Strategy
E-Government Outcomes
14-19WhitePaper
Schools White Paper
FE White Paper
SkillsStrategy
DfES 5-Year Strategy
2004:Personalisation and choiceFlexibility and independenceOpening up servicesStaff developmentPartnerships
2006:Put users at the heart of all we doContinue to improve performance across the systemWork more effectively with partners
E-strategy: the contributions ICT and e-learning can make:Transforming teaching, learning and supportConnecting with hard to reach groupsOpening up an accessible, collaborative systemImproving efficiency and effectivenessEducational outcomes:
1. Closing the gap in educational attainment between those from low income and disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers
2. Continue to raise standards for all across the educational system
3. Increasing the proportion of young people staying on in education or training beyond the age of 16
4. Reducing the number of young people on a path to failure in adult life
5. Closing the skills gap at all levels – to keep pace with the challenge of globalisation
From marginal to mainstream
Use technology effectively in their professional roles
Use technology effectively in their professional roles
Identify where technology can enhance the learning
Identify where technology can enhance the learning
E-confident InstitutionE-confident Institution
Manage the technology for effective teaching and
learning
Manage the technology for effective teaching and
learning
Make appropriate intervention in
learners’ learning
Make appropriate intervention in
learners’ learning
Evaluate new technologies/digital
resources that can enhance or support teaching and
learning
Evaluate new technologies/digital
resources that can enhance or support teaching and
learning
Use of a range of different technologies to support teaching
Use of a range of different technologies to support teaching
Self-directed learning
Self-directed learningHas a wide range of
generic ICT skills
Has a wide range of generic ICT skills
Able to learn new skills as needed
Able to learn new skills as needed
Has high level of digital literacy
Has high level of digital literacy
e-confident learner
e-confident learner
Knows when technology can assist their learning
Knows when technology can assist their learning
Prepared to explore and experiment in their use of technology
Prepared to explore and experiment in their use of technology
Take responsibility for their own learning
Take responsibility for their own learning
Can select appropriate tool
for the task
Can select appropriate tool
for the task
The e-strategy: Phase 1 - setting the conditions for transformation
• Get the technology in place• Learners/providers able to use the technology effectively • Collaboration and partnership, influence and challenge• 7th November national conference: drive reform, enable change,
personalise learning and raise standards of skills and achievement
• Enabling lateral transfer of best practice across sector• More discerning customers (learners, employers)• More capacity and capability in supply (providers)• Increased performance of learners• Increased effectiveness, efficiency and value for money
Capability and capacity of the workforce, providers and learners1.1 Leaders have the knowledge and skills to
ensure technology for learning can be harnessed for the benefit of learners
1.2 Institutions and providers plan and manage technology for learning effectively and sustainably
1.3 Practitioners exploit technology consistently to offer engaging and effective learning experiences
1.4 Practitioners, parents and learners can share and use information and data effectively for the benefit of learners
1.5 Improved learner capability in using technology to support their learning
Outcomes and benefits for learners and children
3.1 There is greater choice in learning opportunities and modes for all learners
3.2 Learners have increased motivation for and engagement in learning
3.3 Fewer learners under-perform or fail to succeed in education
3.4 An improvement in the quality of learning provision is accelerated
3.5 There is improved child safety and child protection
Efficiency, effectiveness & value for money across the system
4.1 Learning providers collaborate and share information and resources
4.2 The management and administration of learning and institutions is more efficient
4.3 There is a greater level of effective, learner-focused, assessment for learning
4.4 Practitioners collaborate and share good practice and learning resources
4.5 There is good use of information to support learner transitions between institutions and sectors
Fit for purpose technology & systems
2.1 All learners and practitioners have access to the appropriate technology and digital resources they need for learning
2.2 Every learner has a personalised learning space to enable them to learn when and where they choose
2.3 Technology-enabled learning environments are secure, supported and interoperable
2.4 There is a dynamic, vibrant and responsive technology for learning market that can meet the needs of the system
System wide delivery model
ChallengePerformance management:
audit, inspection, self-review, governance, funding, quality standards
Improved Outcomes
for learners and the System
Lateral transfer of best practices
Supply-side Demand-side
SupportInfluence of and engagement with
partners and the front-line
Capability and capacity of the workforce,
providers and learners
More discerning customers exercising
choice
Fit for purpose technology and
systems
Better options within a national
framework
The future today
Learning Platforms
LPs at 33, 45 or 78 rpm?
• LA area wide approach• Whole school adoption• Supported by change management• Supported by robust systems
How can learning platforms be central to the vision of personalised learning?
• Enable 24/7 access to learning resources• Support collaboration and communication• Promote the sharing of resources – increased efficiency
and quality and breadth of available resources• Provide personal space• Continuity of Learning• Inclusion• Curriculum Choice• In conjunction with MIS systems a powerful tool to
support learning –and involve the individual in their own learning targets and outcomes
Contact me:
0247616994
More information about how to plan for personalised learning:
http://www.becta.org.uk/corporate/publications/documents/Personalised_Learning.pdf