Presentation to

BSF Think Tank

18th July 2008

Ayleen Driver

ICT Strategic Manager BSF

ayleen.driver@bristol.gov.uk

The schooling that we now offer young people was shaped by accidents of history for a world that we no longer live in.

Tim Brighouse, Chief Adviser for London Schools

• The sum of all human information might be at our finger tips, but what use do we make of it?

• What opportunities do we provide for young people to communicate and collaborate?

• Our children face a future of constant challenge and change.

• How do we provide them with the skills and attributes they will need to thrive?

• Relevant education has never been more necessary.

Professor Jean Rudduck, University of Cambridge

“Pupils have a lot to tell us about ways of strengthening their commitment to learning in school; they say they want: to be treated in more adult ways and to have more responsibility to have choices and make decisions more opportunities to talk about what helps and what hinders their learning.”

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Bristol’s ICT Strategy, based on:

– Anywhere, anytime, device independent access to ICT resources and personal portfolios

– Achieving 1:1 access ratio both at school and at home, including connectivity

– A desire for students and their parents/carers to be actively engaged in the education process

– Exploitation of technologies formerly associated with business or home use

• ICT provides us with opportunities to make learning an active rather than passive process

• ICT provides us with the opportunity to give fast, relevant, personalised feedback

• We do not feel that we have secured a ‘good deal’ for our first BSF schools.

• There are lessons to be learnt by all.• These are serious points but I hope to

present them in a light way.

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