ICT development and change in the secondary curriculum

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ICT development and change in the secondary
curriculum

• Clare Johnson
• ICT programme director
• National Strategies

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2007-2009

• PSA targets and statutory test key stage 3
• Revised curriculum key stage 3 and 4
• Functional skills
• New GCSEs and equivalents, changed PSA target to
  include En and Ma
• New A levels
• Diplomas
• BSF
• ECM

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Ministers speech

• I see technology as the central enabler for
  continued improvement.  We need people to want to
  use it, and know how to maximise the benefits. 
  Because it is not a magic bullet but a practical
  tool to benefit every school, every teacher, and
  every pupil.
• ..personalised learning is a highly structured
  and responsive approach to every childs
  learning, so all children can progress, achieve
  and participate. 

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Gilbert Review

• Using ICT will be natural for most pupils and
  for an increasing majority of teachers.
• ..addressing ways in which national assessment
  should be revised in response to personalising
  learning, for example, increasing the scope of
  testing when ready and developing formal
  metrics for non-cognitive skills.

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Institute for Public Policy Research assessment
paper

• Every child should be assessed throughout each
  key stage by their teachers.
• Every child should sit a small number of
  national tests at the end of each key stage, but
  not in every area of every subject. The results
  of these monitoring tests should be used to
  measure overall school performance, but not the
  individual pupils attainment.
• The schools performance should be used to
  moderate the teacher assessments, producing
  detailed, nationally-comparable data for each
  pupil.

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Ofsted HMCI annual report

• Curricular provision for ICT also remains a
  concern in Key Stage 4, particularly for pupils
  who do not study for a national qualification in
  the subject. Some of these pupils do not have
  sufficient access to ICT to ensure that they
  receive their full entitlement within the
  National Curriculum.

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QCA - coursework

• ..It should be replaced by controlled
  assessments.
• Controlled assessments may involve different
  parameters from those used in traditional written
  examinations.  They may, for example, allow
  access to sources such as the internet but under
  supervision.

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BECTa implementing Harnessing Technology

• Improved learner capability in using technology
  to support their learning
• Practitioners exploit technology consistently to
  offer engaging and effective learning experiences
• Every learner has a personalised learning space
  to enable them to learn when and where they
  choose

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ICT testing letter to schools

• ..there will be a new focus on assessment
  materials that can be used more flexibly
  throughout the key stage. These materials will
  provide formative feedback that teachers and
  pupils can use to allow each pupil to progress
  and inform teaching.
• ICT is one of the necessary life skills for the
  21st century and we want every child to have the
  capability to live, learn and work successfully
  in todays IT mediated world. That is why it is
  the subject chosen to pioneer this new approach
  to testing for progression.

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ICT Key stage 3

• PSA target 85
• 2006 data not yet released but informal results
  from schools suggest a 2 rise to 71 nationally
• Increasing numbers of schools starting courses in
  year 9

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ICT at Key stage 4

• ICT GCSE results up 1 to 60 A-C, but entries
  also up
• Gender gap static, 8 more girls get A-C than
  boys although 10000 more boys are entered
• Short course also up 1 but only 46 A-C and
  gender gap also an issue
• Voc GCSE down 10 to 29 but entries down from
  47000 to 17000
• QCA likely to be concerned about this and may
  review

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ICT GNVQ

• 54 000 pupils gained an intermediate GNVQ in
  2006, 9 000 more than in 2005
• These equate to around 210 000 A-C a major
  contribution to national target

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Curriculum review

• Both key stages and level descriptions
• Much remains the same
• Programming in wider sense and safety aspects
  included
• Range and content
• Focus on collaboration and critical evaluation
• Level descriptions reflect main changes

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ICT agenda 2007- 2010

• KS3 and 4 curriculum review
• Changes to test remit and use
• TA continues to be reported, PSA target remains
• Functional ICT developed
• IT diploma developed
• New GCSEs
• Alternative qualifications following GNVQ demise
• A level revision
• Employment agenda in ECM

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Where are you?

• Key aim must be to ensure progression from 11 to
  19
• Changes to test enables us to lead the use of
  assessment for learning to enable this
• Also allows us to look at leading edge technology
  and their use by pupils and teachers for learning
• We need to lead in our institutions on developing
  a coherent approach to all these challenges to
  best support all learners
• Self evaluation is the key to this where are
  and where do we need to go?

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What next for the ICT strategy

• Development of functional skills pilot training
  and support
• Revised curriculum and opportunities for
  developing other ICT applications
• New GCSEs and other courses
• Progression 11-16 and beyond with key focus on
  assessment for learning and use of test
• Development of ICT in core subjects to raise
  standards across all key stages
• Work with other organisations such as SSAT, NCSL
  and BECTa to further the work of embedding ICT in
  learning and teaching

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Finally

• There are a lot of opportunities for the ICT
  community to lead the way because we are involved
  in all the developments.
• Retain the focus on progression
• Use the networks to develop thinking
• Build on success and lets have some high
  expectations of what we can achieve