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Roger Blamire
Insight into policy and practice
London,
11 January 2008
Learning Matters: ICT Strategies for Success
Roger Blamire
European Schoolnet (EUN)
Roger Blamire
Insight into policy and practice
London,
11 January 2008
What is European Schoolnet (EUN)?
Dedicated to
Support schools in bringing about the best use of technology in learning
Promote the Europeandimension in schools
and education
Improve and raise the quality of education
in Europe
Network of 28 Ministriesof Education in Europe,
based in Brussels
Roger Blamire
Insight into policy and practice
London,
11 January 2008
Stakeholders
Ministries of Education
IT Industry and Suppliers
European Commission
Schools
Experts
Our stakeholders and target groups
Target groups
Policy makers
Researchers Developers
School Leaders
Teachers, Pupils
European Schoolnet
Roger Blamire
Insight into policy and practice
London,
11 January 2008
Three strands of activity
EUN Activities
Knowledge building andExchange on ICT policies
and practice
School networkingand services
Interoperability andcontent exchange
Roger Blamire
Insight into policy and practice
London,
11 January 2008
The ICT Impact Report
• ICT allows for greater differentiation (especially in primary schools), with programmes tailored to individual pupils’ needs
• Pupils do assignments more their own way when using a computer and their parents consider that they solve assignments more at their own level
• Teachers consider that pupils work more in cohesion with their own learning styles, resulting in an impact on both academically strong and weak students
• Pupils with special needs gain in different ways from ICT
• Students assume greater responsibility for their own learning when they use ICT, working more independently and effectively
• ICT offers learners assignments better suited to individual needs and makes it easier to organize their own learning, through the use of, for example, digital portfolios
Roger Blamire
Insight into policy and practice
London,
11 January 2008
Personalised learning
• Definition:– Personalised learning and teaching means taking a highly
structured and responsive approach to each child's and
young person's learning, in order that all are able to
progress, achieve and participate. It means strengthening
the link between learning and teaching by engaging
pupils - and their parents - as partners in learning.
– “Choice and voice”
• Spread in Europe– Haven’t teachers always differentiated?
– Child-focused systems
• Example:
– iClass
– P2V
Roger Blamire
Insight into policy and practice
London,
11 January 2008
Mobile learning
• Disruptive to schools:– "Every year some youngsters arrive back at school with MP3
players, mobile phones and electronic games. " This can be a real headache for teachers when they are trying to get everyone settled down to start learning. Teachers would be grateful if pupils just brought a pen."
– “Mobile phones to be treated as potentially offensive weapons”
Chris Keates, General secretary of UK teaching union
• But does learning have to be contained in schools?– “It is the world which is our school.” Jan Comenius. b. 1592
• Spread in Europe
• Example:– eMAPPS.com
Roger Blamire
Insight into policy and practice
London,
11 January 2008
Games and mobiles in Poland
Roger Blamire
Insight into policy and practice
London,
11 January 2008
So the garden is rosy?
• Mainstreaming small-scale success
• Assessment regimes
• Pedagogies
• The usual inhibitors
• A solution: peer learning?
Roger Blamire
Insight into policy and practice
London,
11 January 2008
Where’s the teacher?
Where’s the ‘classroom’?
Insight knowledge base