Embedding e-learning in the school curriculum

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Embedding e-learning in the school curriculum
Tim Brosnan Assistant Head
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Background Hampstead School

• A Technology College with strong traditions in
  the cross-curricular use of ICT and the creative
  arts
• More Cricklewood than Hampstead
• gt30 of pupils qualify for free school meals
• gt40 have English as a second (or third) language
• gt30 are on the schools Special Needs register
• 130 (10 of the school population) are refugees
• Results well above the average of schools with
  similar social intakes in many cases above the
  95th percentile (PANDA) and equal to or above
  national averages

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Principles

• To empower members of the school community by
  developing their ICT capability so that they
  become effective and independent users of new
  technologies
• Embed ICT at the heart of teaching and learning

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Practice

• No timetabled ICT lessons at KS 3 or 4
• Two ICT rooms free of timetabled classes- and
  others bookable
• ICT staff have no timetabled classes (other than
  16)
• They work with colleagues in other departments
  jointly to plan and teach programmes of study

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Examples

• Pupils
• Great Expectations
• Musical Pictures
• Staff
• Coastal Erosion
• Pupils and Staff
• Crime Survey

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Advantages

• ICT capability is taught in authentic curriculum
  contexts
• All subjects can embed ICT in their schemes of
  work
• Staff training in ICT pedagogy and skills is
  classroom-based, achieved collaboratively with
  supportive colleagues, and addresses the specific
  learning/ teaching concerns of each
  teacher/department

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What next?

• Stop ICT being special by bringing ICT to the
  class rather the class to ICT
• Set of Tablet PCs for use in the Maths department
  in conjunction with Interactive Whiteboards
• Whole school access to shared resources and their
  user areas from home
• To empower students so they can make an even
  greater impact on their world