Celebrating Success in Birmingham

It's the final SLICT conference in Birmingham, Celebrating Success

In his keynote Chris Poole BSF Business Manager at Microsoft is stressing to us that it's not about the technology but the experience.

He is also wondering out loud about ICT transforming learning.

His initial hypotheses is that true transformation is not happening in schools and this partly about the fear of schools loosing control and letting children take control of their own learning.

He's using one of the videos A vision of students today illustrating that young people are in another digital world and dumbing down when they go to school.

Why is this new to people...why haven't the people here noticed the changes..?

This presentation is following the usual path in challenging people to change in the 21st century and is certainly engaging people around me. But will there be a capacity to change..There are lots of us who are working very hard to help it happen.

But I have some children coming from Blackburn to show interactive learning with ICT and their bus is getting closer!

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The snow walk

Saturday was to be the day for setting up a new blog, but the prospect of a walk in the park , snow still on the ground and sun bright, was tempting. I asked my fellow tweeters what I should do first, walk in the park or work on the blog? And the unanimous response of those around was to walk first and then set up blog and write about it. So no couch potatoes there. Sadly once we were out there it was so good that that we did not return for a long time. No new blog set up :-( Whilst out I tweeted some photos from the iphone but this was not enough, a blog post was required so here it is. Instead of the new blog I'm showing the pictures in two ways, first new to me a Photopeach spiral (Thanks Simon Widdowson and Allanah King for sharing this at about the same time) and then using Animoto . I have an education license for this so can make longer films Enjoy my walk Snow in the park on PhotoPeach . Use the slider to hear the sound and click on...

Blogging.. making a start

Want to start blogging with your class? John Johnson of Sandaig Primary offers step by step advice based on his experience. He’s been blogging and podcasting very successfully with his children for some time and they have an international following. There are links to all the school blogs in his own blog , take a look at Sandaig poets, inspiration for poetry writing in the classroom.

Me at the end of 2019

My work and passion is in learning, teaching and technology, not only in how digital technologies are used as tools in a computing curriculum but in how they can transform learning and teaching and potentially education as a whole. I spend a lot of time encouraging people to join me. I’m also a wife, mother, aunt and granny and am involved in the rough and tumble of extended family life. I have a car, a good pair of walking boots and trekking pole, a well-thumbed passport, trail running shoes and compass My extensive book collection ( I moved to a new house for it) includes food stained cookery books. I’ve access to music, live, streamed and recorded, a Wii and an Xbox Kinect and many ‘robots’. In spare time I volunteer at a wonderful National Trust property, Woolsthorpe Manor, the birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton and talk to (if they want to) the amazing, interesting people who come to visit. Life is indeed good! A ...

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