Presented by David Mason, Content Manager
- David Mason's website: http://www.davidmason.lgfl.net/
- Presentation slides: Building a World City Network
The London Grid for Learning (LGfL) is a collaborative initiative by the 33 London local authorities to provide broadband connectivity, managed services and online content for ht education community throughout the London Region (comprising 2600 schools, 74000 teachers & 1.2 million students).
In terms of infrastructure, something that we envy...
- Connection via fibre optics (throughout)
- Connectivity: 10 Mb for Prmary and 100 Mb for Secondary schools
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6 priorities outlined to harness technology to the needs of children, learners, parents, teachers, carers, employers and all our stakeholders... among them, "Integrated online personal support for children and learners" and "A collaborative approach to personalised learning activities" pay special attention to the learners.
- See Online Publication for more details: Harnessing Technology - Transforming Learning and Children's services
- DCSF: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/publications/e-strategy/
Extracting from the online publication:
- Under Integrated online personal support for children, it encourages every institution to offer a personal online learning space to store coursework, course resources, results, and
achievements. It is also working towards developing a personal identifier for each learner, so that organisations can support an individual’s progression more effectively. Together, these facilities will become an electronic portfolio, making it simpler for learners to build their record of achievement throughout their lifelong learning. - Under collaborative approach to personalised learning activities, several areas that need to be addressed to are identified: (i) The need of better digital resources being more widely available and more flexible learning packages that teachers can adapt to their learners’ needs (ii) The need to support innovation in the market by improving knowledge of where elearning works particularly well, and update the standards for pedagogic quality, accessibility and safety (iii) The need to 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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There are 6 components to take care of when managing complex change - Vision, Skills, Incentives, Resources, Action Plans, Evaluation. Lacking any one of them has an impact on the overall progress and the outcome (confusion, anxiety, slow change, frustration, false starts, uncertainty) - see slide #7
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eSafety is certainly a big thing in the UK education system. This has been emphasized not only in presentations by the various presenters, but also the practised in schools - through infrastructure (eg. installation of surveillance cameras, use of electronic system to sign in) to taking photographs of students at work.
- eSafety: http://cms.lgfl.net/lgfl/web/safety
- Advice on Equipment Security in the school premise (by BECTA)
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Useful Resource websites
- Curriculum Resources in the LGfL website: http://cms.lgfl.net/web/lgfl/curriculum - a gateway to a range of resource pools
- SKOOOL: http://lgfl.skoool.co.uk/index.aspx - for keystage 3 & 4 (ie. Secondary curriculum) Maths and Sciences - developed by INTEL. Some of the resources belong to the show-and-tell while some are applets (quite a range).
- Artisancam: http://www.artisancam.org.uk/home.php; http://www.artisancam.org.uk/pages/activities/zone/index.php
- Big Day Out: http://bdo.nen.gov.uk/
- CEA @ Islington Primary ICT Assessment Portfolio: http://www.lgfl.net/lgfl/leas/islington/accounts/subjects/ict/primaryhomepage/assessment/
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