(Thanks to the NAACE Newsletter)
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As part of the discussion on the agenda of personalised learning, there is a conference for primary school head teachers and curriculum leaders at the Earles Court Centre on Wednesday June 20th.
If you are contemplating jumping on the Managed Learning Environment Bandwagon, attendance at conferences like these should be mandatory as they provide a conceptual framework to help you decide the direction you should be taking. The implementation of commercial VLE systems, even the LGFL endorsed Fronter solution is not cheap. Without having a sound conceptual framework and pedagogical plan in place, you may not be getting the best value for your planned investment.
A flyer about the conference program and the costs is enclosed.
If it is a good as the Personalised Learning conference for secondary schools, it will be worth the money! The conference may not give you all the answers but at least they will help you formulate the questions that you need to ask!!
Thursday June 7th 2007 at the Earles Court Conference Centre.
Probably one of the best conferences I have attended.
As mentioned in previous blog entries, the virtues of ‘personalised learning’ are widely extolled but there is still a lot of confusion about the meaning behind the term. With the pressure on to choose a suitable Learning Platform for proposed Managed Learning Environments, it is important than ever, that school communities develop a shared understanding of what this term means.
With this aim in mind I attended the conference yesterday and was pleased to see a staff representative from Langley Park School for Girls and Newstead Wood School for Girls in attendance.
Key speakers at the conference included Kathy August (Principal Manchester Academy), Kathy Baker and Andrew Hudson (General Teaching Council for England), John Baumber (Executive Principal-The Brook Learning Partnership), Sonette Schwartz (Headteacher Cornwallis School Kent) Liz Cresswell (Deputy Head Teacher Brighouse High School ) and Kai Vacher (Specialist Schools Trust).
