ICT Test Bed event

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ICT Test Bed event

• Wednesday 18th October 2006

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Agenda - Wednesday

• Morning
• Expectations of the day 0930
• Vision for an ICT Test Bed institution 0945
• Phase discussion 1015(Infant / Junior /
  Secondary / Barking College)
• Morning coffee break 1100
• Barking and Dagenham Learning Gateway project
  1130
• Phase discussion 1200(Infant / Junior /
  Secondary Barking College)
• Lunch in the restaurant 1230

• Afternoon
• School priorities areas of common ground
  collaboration opportunities 1315
• Phase discussion 1330(Infant / Junior /
  Secondary Barking College)
• Self Review Framework1415
• Phase discussions 1435(Infant / Junior /
  Secondary Barking College)
• Evaluation www / ebi 1515
• What next for ICT Test Bed? 1530
• Depart 1545

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Expectations

• Vision for your institution
• Collaboration on school priorities
• Areas of common developments
• Update on the Self Review Framework
• Understanding of the Barking and Dagenham
  Learning Gateway

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Format of the day

• Input from LA / Becta
• Opportunity for discussion
• Feedback to LA / Becta and group
• What next for ICT Test Bed?
• Breaks scheduled plus opportunity during
  discussions to refill

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ICT Test Bed

• Some observations
• Impact of the project valued
• National Strategy, Computers for Pupils, Becta
  Frameworks, new products
• Wide exposure for schools, College and LA
• Innovation dip talked about (with emerging data)
• Functional procurement expected
• Visualisers on the educational map
• Innovation with mobile devices recognised

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Context reflection

• The Project involved us in maximising
  opportunities
• Leadership and management
• Workforce developments
• Teaching and learning
• Collaboration
• Engaging the community
• The project supported us through
• Capital and revenue funding
• Change management toolset
• LA, Becta and other agency support

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Context - reflection

• Capacity of School / College
• Existing School / College priorities
• Planning process
• Timescales
• Expectations

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Significant impact across cluster
Leadership and management
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Significant impact across cluster
Workforce developments
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Significant impact across cluster
Teaching and Learning
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Significant impact across cluster
Teaching and Learning
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Significant impact across cluster
Collaboration
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Significant impact across cluster
Engaging the community
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Significant impact across cluster
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Next steps

• Opportunity to share your thinking in terms of
  sustaining yourselves as ICT rich institutions
• Other schools are
• Developing a vision and understanding of ICT
  opportunities
• Developing infrastructure
• Re-modelling staff
• Developing content

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Discussion opportunity

• What is the vision for your institution in the
  year 2009?
• Consider the 5 aims of the ICT Test Bed
• Right to left planning i.e. what will
  stakeholders be doing, thinking, feeling, saying
• Roles and responsibilities
• Delivery of digital content / data
• Maximising opportunities
• Developing new opportunities
• Record your thoughts / actions
• Feedback in 30 minutes

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Collaboration

• An easy word to write on a plan, an easy word to
  say in a meeting
• Sustainable and useful collaboration more
  difficult
• Examples across the cluster of impact from
  collaboration
• MIS, ict-tech, content dev, documentation,
  digital video, parents online, voting systems

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Collaboration

• Are there areas of activity that would benefit
  from further collaboration at phase level?
• Teaching and learning with interactive and
  portable technologies
• Management Information Systems
• Continuing Professional Development
• Technical support
• Content development with Barking College

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Discussion opportunity

• What areas of priority do you feel could benefit
  from collaboration?
• What areas could you offer collaboration on?
• How is this taken forward?
• Record your thoughts / actions
• Feedback in 30 minutes

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Self Review Framework

• Key elements
• Must be seen as a whole school tool for
  developing and maximising the opportunities
  provide by technology
• Need to sustain the use of the tool
• Need to localise elements of the tool
• Opportunity to share your review with key
  stakeholders

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Self Review Framework

• Current Activity
• Working with schools on the process
• Reflect on impacts and challenges
• Relationship to school self evaluation and
  planning
• ICT Test Bed feeding into exemplars within the
  online tool
• National Update
• Becta Simon Shaw

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Discussion opportunity

• Use the guidance document and strands as a
  resource
• How would you build the self review framework
  into school evaluation and action planning?
• Who would you engage in the process initially?
• How is this taken forward?
• Record your thoughts / actions
• Feedback in 30 minutes

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ICT Test Bed

• What next?
• Review of Accelerating Change website
• National celebration event in Spring term focus
  on final report
• Local event to tie in with final report
• Exemplification of practice
• Self Review and the ICT Mark

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A final word

• Thanks for all your support, effort, time and
  patience (remember the e-mails)
• Have a safe journey home
• Catch up with you after half term