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Roger Blamire

Insight into policy and practice

London,

11 January 2008

Learning Matters: ICT Strategies for Success

Roger Blamire

European Schoolnet (EUN)

Roger Blamire

Insight into policy and practice

London,

11 January 2008

What is European Schoolnet (EUN)?

Dedicated to

Support schools in bringing about the best use of technology in learning

Promote the Europeandimension in schools

and education

Improve and raise the quality of education

in Europe

Network of 28 Ministriesof Education in Europe,

based in Brussels

Roger Blamire

Insight into policy and practice

London,

11 January 2008

Stakeholders

Ministries of Education

IT Industry and Suppliers

European Commission

Schools

Experts

Our stakeholders and target groups

Target groups

Policy makers

Researchers Developers

School Leaders

Teachers, Pupils

European Schoolnet

Roger Blamire

Insight into policy and practice

London,

11 January 2008

Three strands of activity

EUN Activities

Knowledge building andExchange on ICT policies

and practice

School networkingand services

Interoperability andcontent exchange

Roger Blamire

Insight into policy and practice

London,

11 January 2008

The ICT Impact Report

• ICT allows for greater differentiation (especially in primary schools), with programmes tailored to individual pupils’ needs

• Pupils do assignments more their own way when using a computer and their parents consider that they solve assignments more at their own level

• Teachers consider that pupils work more in cohesion with their own learning styles, resulting in an impact on both academically strong and weak students

• Pupils with special needs gain in different ways from ICT

• Students assume greater responsibility for their own learning when they use ICT, working more independently and effectively

• ICT offers learners assignments better suited to individual needs and makes it easier to organize their own learning, through the use of, for example, digital portfolios

Roger Blamire

Insight into policy and practice

London,

11 January 2008

Personalised learning

• Definition:– Personalised learning and teaching means taking a highly

structured and responsive approach to each child's and

young person's learning, in order that all are able to

progress, achieve and participate. It means strengthening

the link between learning and teaching by engaging

pupils - and their parents - as partners in learning.

– “Choice and voice”

• Spread in Europe– Haven’t teachers always differentiated?

– Child-focused systems

• Example:

– iClass

– P2V

Roger Blamire

Insight into policy and practice

London,

11 January 2008

Mobile learning

• Disruptive to schools:– "Every year some youngsters arrive back at school with MP3

players, mobile phones and electronic games. " This can be a real headache for teachers when they are trying to get everyone settled down to start learning. Teachers would be grateful if pupils just brought a pen."

– “Mobile phones to be treated as potentially offensive weapons”

Chris Keates, General secretary of UK teaching union

• But does learning have to be contained in schools?– “It is the world which is our school.” Jan Comenius. b. 1592

• Spread in Europe

• Example:– eMAPPS.com

Roger Blamire

Insight into policy and practice

London,

11 January 2008

Games and mobiles in Poland

Roger Blamire

Insight into policy and practice

London,

11 January 2008

So the garden is rosy?

• Mainstreaming small-scale success

• Assessment regimes

• Pedagogies

• The usual inhibitors

• A solution: peer learning?

Roger Blamire

Insight into policy and practice

London,

11 January 2008

Where’s the teacher?

Where’s the ‘classroom’?

info@eun.org

Insight knowledge base