Ferry de Rijcke

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ICT and learningobservations and challenges
from a European perspective

• Ferry de Rijcke
• Coordinating Inspector of Education
• The Netherlands

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Two Perspectives

• Government, administrators, the public debate
• Schools learners and teachers

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Evidence base

• 130 Ict-school portraits Dutch inspectorate
• 20 ICT-school portraits in six European countries
  (ERNIST)
  
• ICT-reports inspectorates in England, Scotland,
  France
  
• INSIGHT European Schoolnet research, analyses,
  ICT-country profiles.
  

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Focus on

• Schools
• Subjects
• School leaders
• Teachers
• Students

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ICT school portraits

• Objectives
• Inspiring examples.
• Information for policy makers on possibilities
  and on necessary conditions.
  
• Re-definition of common objectives and quality
  standards.
  
• Over 130 portraits
• Netherlands, Sweden, Ireland, France, Canada,
  Scotland
  

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ICT school portraits

• Context
• Vision
• Changes for students, teachers
• School organisation
• Roles of others
• Reflecting, ambitions
• Assessment

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Outcomes

• Organising processes of change
• Leadership
• ICT one element in complex change processes
• Reward teachers and students initiatives
• Serendipity
• Co-operate with others
• Infrastructure, technical management
• ICT tools for school organisation development and
  educational development

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Leadership
Vision
Learning resources
Learning and teaching
Teachers expertise
Students expertise
External relations
School Organisation
Technical Infrastructure
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ERNIST

• International project on school innovation
• School portraits England, Northern Ireland,
  Scotland, Flanders, Austria, Netherlands
  
• Research frameworks
• Analyses of contexts for change
• Exchange of practical expertise
• Co-operation EUN, Inspectorates (SICI)

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Peer to Peer

• Ministries
• Schools
• Inspectorates
• Peer learning
• Shared frameworks
• Insights

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School leaders

• Successful schools
• assessment module
• Leadership styles
• self-assessment
• In-depth interviews
• Hybrid publication print and web

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Successful Leaders

• Education as primary focus
• External orientation
• Reflective, analytical, visionary, charismatic,
  responsive
  
• Communicators and implementers
• Results, people, conditions
• Adaptive leadership style
• Extended repertoire

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Public concerns

• Impact of ICT in society, economy, public life
• Lisbon ambitions
• Digital divide
• Results of investments
• Assessment of progress in terms of innovation in
  learning and teaching
  
• New priorities, new topics in the public debate

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Two observations

• ICT and anarchy
• Innovation at school level

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Schools and ICT

• Schools and learning change on three levels
• Tools
• Methods, didactics
• Objectives

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School level

• Organisational revolution
• New sources of learning
• No new paradigm
• The real digital divide
• The triangle of change resilience

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The triangle of change resilience

• National objectives of learning
• Learning materials
• Teachers professional traditions

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Challenges

• Redefine goals of common learning
• Keep up the investment levels
• Open up schooling and learning
• Schools to lead

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