The curriculum in the digital age

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The curriculum in the digital age

• Steven Fawkes, Policy Adviser
• BBC Learning Interactive
• steven.fawkes_at_bbc.co.uk

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The BBC

• independent of Government
• established by Charter, reviewed by Government
  (DCMS)
• Public Service
• commercial arm - BBC Worldwide
• provision for 4 Nations of UK

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Learning audiences

• Primary schools
• Secondary schools
• Colleges
• Adults
• (in all 4 Nations of UK)

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BBC RaW

• http//www.bbc.co.uk/raw/

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Schools curricula

• England
• National Curriculum
• Dept. for Education and Skills, QCA

• Wales
• National Curriculum
• Welsh priorities (language, history etc.)
• Welsh Assembly, ACCAC

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Schools curricula

• Scotland
• National Guidelines
• Scottish Executive, LTS, SQA

• Northern Ireland
• National Curriculum
• Dept. for Education NI,
• CCEA

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Interested bodies, projects and policies

• www.becta.org.uk
• www.curriculumonline.gov.uk
• www.teachernet.org.uk
• www.teachers.tv
• Connecting the UK, the Digital Strategy
• (DTI and Cabinet Office) - parents and digital
  divide
• Extended Schools
• DfES e-strategy / ICT in schools
• QCA Futures

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Harnessing technology Transforming Learning and
Childrens Services

• Transform teaching and learning ..
• Engage hard to reach learners ..
• Build an open accessible system ..
• Achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness..
• Priority to provide
• A common digital infrastructure to support
  transformation and reform

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• We need better digital resources ..
• We must support innovation in the market by
  improving our knowledge of where e-learning works
  particularly well..
• And we must keep the curriculum moving, to take
  advantage of new methods in all subject areas,
  and to keep demanding a better response from the
  technology.

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BBC Learning strategy

• Responding to national needs , and local
  communities
• Supporting formal and informal learning
• Mounting campaigns to encourage action
• Languages Strategy
• www.bbc.co.uk/languages
• www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryfrench/
• www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryspanish/

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digital curriculum

• digital context, all schools connected by 2006
• commercial sector response
• ELCs
• DCMS approval and conditions
• Distinctive and complementary

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DCMS conditions

• stimulating, supporting and reflecting the
  diversity of the UK
• continual innovation, distinctiveness from and
  complementarity to services provided by the
  commercial sector
• not selling or marketing a commercial VLE or
  textbooks to accompany the service

• not allowing use of ELCs for purchase of DC
  resources
• not covering more than 50 of learning outcomes
• commissioning in distinct categories max 22
  core, max 30 non-core, 26 Nations, 22 minority
  
• publishing an outline plan for 5 years at least
  15 months before the launch of the service, and
  learning outcomes 12 months before launch

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• reference to Curriculum Online, and to
  alternative sources of supply, for which ELCs are
  available to schools, in promotion of the Digital
  Curriculum
• monitoring by the BBC Governors of implementation
  of the service
• review of the service by the Secretary of State
  within two years of the launch of the service

• OJEC process
• http//www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/dcp/ojec_front.
  shtml

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digital curriculum

• Broadband offering
• Learner-centred
• Launch January 2006
• Branded October 2005
• BBC Jam
• Not accessible outside UK

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User Generated content

• 21CC
• Broadband library
• Creative Archive
• Blast
• Who do you think you are?
• World War II
• Picture of Britain

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BBC Learning Projects

• http//www.bbc.co.uk/21cc/
• www.bbc.co.uk/schools/broadband/
• http//creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/archives/the_bbcs
  _plans/index.html
• www.bbc.co.uk/blast
• http//www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/index.s
  html
• http//www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/
• http//www.bbc.co.uk/arts/apictureofbritain/