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• What is Glow
• Glow Developments
• From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0
• How are our pupils actually using the internet now?
• How can we “tap” into this?
• Web 2.0 tools for me?
• Interrupt at any time
What I hope to cover!
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Glow in Highland
successful learners
confident individuals
responsible citizens
effective contributors
To enable all youngpeople to become
A Curriculum for Excellence (ACE)
Glow aims to:
•provide a set of web tools for education
• help deliver the ‘Curriculum for Excellence’
• link every school in a safe and secure network
• provide personalised learning opportunities
• transform teaching and learning enabling users to communicate and work together
• ‘successful learners’, using technology to communicate effectively.
• ‘confident individuals’, secure in their use of 21st century tools.
• ‘responsible citizens’, able to use ICT to research issues, compare viewpoints and participate in informed discussion.
• ‘effective contributors’, solve problems, work in teams and communicate with different audiences.
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Glow will be piloted in theMallaig Associated School Group
Glow will also be made available to a number of staff in all Highland schools from June 2009
Initially this is to give schools access to a number of national Glow Groups
life
outside the classroom
interaction is
expected
social
increasingly digital
constantly
connected
instant access
embrace digital tools
producers+
consumers
prosumers
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Pace of changeThe technology pupils are using and the way pupils are using the internet changes rapidly. We need to be aware of these changes and look at how we engage with young people using these new
technologies.
According to BBC According to BBC News, a new blog is News, a new blog is created created every secondevery second..
1,400,000 UK pupils 1,400,000 UK pupils have their have their own web own web page.page.
The World Wide Web has become a two-way web, where anyone can publish, share, and change information as easily as viewing or downloading it.
This change is known as web 2.0
This change offers powerful new opportunities for learning.
BLOGS WIKIS
PODCASTS RSS
SOCIAL BOOKMARKING
Web 2.0 The read /write web
PodcastingPupils in Highland are downloading from iTunes our online digital video lesson for reinforcement and revision
From June 2009 there will be a Highland blogging server
We are starting to talk about devices
Primary schools are now starting to use games consoles like the Nintendo DS to teach numeracy
Netbook PilotSeveral school are piloting the use of these small, light mini PCs that connect very easily to the internet via school wifi network
If there was one blog I would recommend for
librarians
•http://heyjude.wordpress.com/
www.slideshare.net/jimhenderson
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