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Tuesday 21st May 2013, 9:30am – 4:30pm

In the last five years UK schools have spent more than £1 billion on digital technology. From interactive whiteboards to tablets, there is more digital technology in schools than ever before. But so far there has been little evidence of substantial success in improving educational outcomes.

The changing nature of the economy makes it essential that children on leaving education enter the workforce with the appropriate levels of digital skills to enable the UK to remain both competitive and leading-edge. However, there appears to be a fundamental issue that threatens this, namely our teacher’s inability to utilise hi-tech kit that is at their disposal to enhance the learning of their pupils. A recent report from NESTA entitled “Decoding Learning” said that whilst there is clear evidence that technology can boost learning, lack of training and understanding of modern technology amongst the teaching workforce is preventing this from occurring.

The main purpose of this course is to try to bridge the clear gap between the technology on offer and the limited skill base of those who have to utilise it. Many schools are clearly still using technology to support 20^thcentury teaching methods and learning objectives. We are all acutely aware that technology could be much more effective if teachers and learners are given the right sort of training and use it in the right sort of ways.

Attendance at this course will provide you with a knowledge and skills set that you will be able to take back to your workplace to the benefit of you organisation, including:

• How technology can boost learning
• Understanding the power of technology in transforming education
• Utilising the incredible potential of digital technology in and beyond the classroom
• Unlocking the vast opportunities for pupils to learn with others through the potential of digital technology
• Getting industry and education to work together to harness technology to put learning first
• Helping schools understand what technology to buy and how best to use it
• Helping the education system to embrace technology
• Preparing pupils adequately for a post-school period of study and work in a digital age
• Accelerating the adoption of best practice in schools across country

Agenda

09:30  Registration and Coffee

10:00  Opening Keynote from Peter Tavernor, Former Principal, Manchester College and Chair of Board of Salford Professional Development   

10:15  The strategic implications of ICT in Education  

• Using technology to improve education 
• A means of effecting change
• The real impact of ICT in Education
• Making personalisation achievable at scale through Technology
• What does it all mean for Schools
• Considering ICT investment against various targets

-Improved educational outcomes;

-Improved use of school resources and time, especially teacher time;

-Contribution to reducing bureaucracy and administrative costs

11:00  Q&A   

11:15  Coffee Break

11:30  Curriculum and Assessment  

• Rich assessment systems for teachers and learners
• Personalised curriculum for teachers and learners
• Creating a curriculum that has the content to support individual life-long learners
• Developing on-going ICT based formative assessment
• Preparing pupils for a world moving quickly towards the business opportunities to be found in new technologies
• The modernisation of the curriculum

12:15  Q&A

12.30  Lunch   

13.30  Rethinking the Teaching Profession  

• The many differing roles of the Teacher
• Balancing the needs of the learner and the system
• Preparing for the future
• Re-engineering the Teacher

14:15  Q&A

14.30  Schools and Colleges as Organisations

• Understanding that IT is about organisational effectiveness
• The changing roles of schools and colleges
• ICT against the backdrop of a changing landscape
• The different types of roles that ICTs can play in Schools and Colleges
• The alignment of ICT with the organisational direction, organisation design and the core processes

15:15  Q&A

15.30  Coffee Break

15:45  Making it happen

• Transmitting the best from generation to generation
• Vision and values for the systems of learning
• Maximising resources to prime purposes
• Re-engineering the education system in terms of infrastructure, curriculum and assessment and teaching professions
• Developing common digital platforms
• Lessons from Industry

16.15  Q&A

16.30  Close

Target Audience

The audience on the day will include: Head Teachers/teachers ; Heads of School; IT Professionals; Directors of Education; Directors of Children’s Services; Education Consultants;  Academia; School Inspectors and all relevant job roles from across the Education Landscape and organisations including Primary and Secondary Schools; Colleges; LEAs; Voluntary and Community Sector; Academia;  Private Sector and all those with an interest or engaged in transforming education through Technology.