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Glow in Highland

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

confident individuals

responsible citizens

effective contributors

To enable all youngpeople to become

A Curriculum for Excellence (ACE)

• ‘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.

Glow will be piloted in theMallaig Associated School Group

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.

94% of children use a computer and a phone

8 out of 10 teenagers have a PC, mobile phone and a game.

58% of pupils aged 12 – 17 have a Social Network Site profile

More than ever before people use the internet as part of their daily life.

Facts and FiguresFacts and Figures

Source: Pew (US) schoolzone.co.uk & www.1ps.k12.co.usSource: Pew (US) schoolzone.co.uk & www.1ps.k12.co.us

According to BBC News, a According to BBC News, a new blog is created new blog is created every every secondsecond..

1,400,000 UK pupils have 1,400,000 UK pupils have their their own web page.own web page.

(Britons sent more than 50bn texts in 2007, for example - as many each week as they did in the whole of 1999)

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

Marybank Primary Bloggers

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