Past
Events
| Date |
Topic
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Click
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| 27th
Feb 2006 |
IT in Schools for
Student and Business Benefits
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| Speaker
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Amy
Walker - STUDENT |
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- year 11 student at
Beaconsfield High |
| Speaker
2 |
Owain Johns
- TEACHER |
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| - asst. Head teacher and ICT
teacher
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| Speaker
3 |
Kevin
Mclean - DfES |
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| - Deputy Director IT in Schools
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| Summary |
The effective use of
IT in schools is crucial to the development of our children and
businesses. The challenges being faced in IT in Schools are also
very relevant to the challenges in many businesses.
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Amy Warner is
currently a year 11 student at Beaconsfield High School which is a
technology college. She will be taking 9 GCSEs in June. These
include art, textiles (design and technology) French and Spanish as
well as core subjects. She is hoping to stay for sixth form to take
A levels in art, textiles, French and English. She uses IT in every
subject she is taking at GCSE, including specialist software, for
example photo draw and pro-desktop. She is happy to return to Henley
after attending a technology in business seminar last year.
Owain Johns is Assistant Head
teacher at Beaconsfield High School and is currently in his
ninth year in teaching. He started working in Oxfordshire at
Lord Williams a comprehensive in Thame teaching Design and
Technology and ICT gaining experience with Key stage management and
also being responsible for the schools website. He moved to
Beaconsfield High school in 2002 to become the Head of DT.
A firm advocate of ICT in education he has led training sessions on
utilizing interactive whiteboards and integrating ICT in teaching.
He is an accredited trainer on Pro-Desktop Design software and has
recently been training teachers to utilise this software in regional
training sessions.
Kevin McLean works in the
Department for Education and Skills, in the Technology Group he also
involved in the cross-Government strategy to use technology to
enable the transformation of public services. Kevin has done a
number of Civil Service jobs over the years, from Slough B
Unemployment Benefit Office to working as a private secretary to the
Secretary of State.
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Kevin has stated the
"DfES and our Ministers view technology as a powerful tool to
achieve the kind of outcomes we all want to see from education, and
from children's services more widely. We have invested a huge
amount of money since 1998, particularly in schools but also in
other parts of the system. There is some outstanding work now
being done in schools, and by individual teachers. I'd welcome
a discussion about two things in particular.
First, how do we move from patches of excellence to a state where
many, many more children and young people benefit? For
example, only about 12% of schools have really embedded ICT in the
way the whole school works, right across the curriculum.
And how do we get the system to operate as a system, and that sees
and caters for the individual as they move through that system, from
pre-school right through to FE, HE and into the workplace?"
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