'School Leaders' Category
New ICT Events
Digital Safety Conference 2009: 19 June, London
Members may be interested in attending the Digital Safety Conference 2009 to join fellow thought leaders, practitioners and policy makers from a cross-sector cohort of delegates in an independent debate about the health, reputation and environment of the digital world.
Public registration for the conference will be made available on [...]ICT in the Primary Curriculum-calling practitioners
Naace continues to play an active part in the review of the Review. Our professional officer attended an important QCA event last week to launch the consultation, and two members of the board will participate in a Council for Subject Associations conference to respond to Sir Jim’s proposals.
QCA, who are managing the official consultation on [...]Do ICT Rooms still have a place in education?
Do ICT suites have any place in 21st century primary schools? Katy Potts weighs up the research findings and comes to a decisive answer: ‘No!’ So why do so many school leaders still press for ICT suites? And what’s missing from ICT strategies that leads them to seek the supposed safety of obsolescent solutions?
Pupils at [...]IPods help ESL pupils achieve success
Here is an interesting project from E-news in America documenting how Ipods were used in helping ESL Students in their studies
”During an International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) webinar titled “iPods as Teaching Tools for Language Learners,” Grace Poli, media specialist at Jose Marti Middle School in Union City, N.J., and an Apple distinguished educator, [...]Next Generation Learning Charter Support Group
We are pleased to bring you further details of the Next Generation Learning Support Courses:
15 June 2009, Leeds
17 June 2009, Birmingham
26 June 2009, LondonThe conference is essential for those concerned with giving schools strategic guidance and support in their progress through the NGLC.
It is of particular importance to LA strategic managers and consultants, and indeed [...]News from NAACE: The Rose Report
The Rose Review
Many thanks to Paul Springford for the following update of the Rose Review:
Would Queen Victoria be ousted by Twitter? This was not the question most Naace members were asking on the eve of publication last week, having already consigned the alarmist headlines from the previous month to their recycle bins. Even so, with [...]Revised Data Security Guidance published by Becta
Becta’s revised data security guidance is now live at www.becta.org.uk/schools/datasecurity.
Produced by Becta on behalf of the Department for Children, Schools and Families, these revised good practice guides have been reviewed and updated with feedback from a number of cross-sector organisations including DCSF, DIUS, JISC Legal, The Information Authority and JANET(UK), as well as from [...]Survey shows barriers to Web 2.0 in schools
Research reveals which tools are popular in schools, which aren’t–and why
By Meris Stansbury, Associate EditorTeachers and students are largely driving the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies in schools, but human and technological barriers are holding back the use of these as learning tools in many classrooms, according to a new study.
Commissioned by Lightspeed Systems and [...]ICT in the Curriculum The Rose Report
Thanks to Paul Spingford from NAACE Advisory List
Sir Jim Rose’s review of the primary curriculum in England has resulted in an interim report with significant recommendations about the role of ICT.
The report is available at the Rose Review website:
First, ICT is one of the central “skills for learning and life which should be developed [...]
Safe Internet Day 10th February
Becta news
Safer Internet Day 2009 will take place on 10 February, followed by a week of special activities designed to promote e-safety. Initiated in 2004 by European Schoolnet’s Insafe network, the objective of this annual event is to bring together public and private stakeholders in as many countries as possible to encourage safe and responsible [...]