Stehpeh Jury

ICT from Centres of Excellence to mainstreaming International Symposium Rome 11-12 June

Stephen Jury Vice Chairman Promethean

Islands of Excellence

ICT in schools

ICT in schools

Islands of Excellencein a sea of mediocrity

ICT in schools

What is good?

How do we moveto a system wide approach ?

© 2008, Tom Wigley.

How do we clearthe fog ?

USA Today 3rd June 2009

Autonomy. Another feature that the best performers in PISA share is that they have devolved responsibility to the frontline. PISA suggests that countries giving more responsibility to schools tend to perform better. Giving schools more autonomy in formulating the budget, and letting them decide on allocations within the school tends to go hand in hand with better performance. This remains true even after accounting for socio-economic background

Speech by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-GeneralTokyo, Japan Press Club, 04 December 2007

ICT in schools - Prescription v Freedom 1

ICT in schools - Prescription v Freedom 2

The system needs to ensure that every child rather than just some children, has access to excellentinstruction. Ensuring that every child benefits........ ....is not only an important end in itself, the evidence from international assessments suggests that strong performance for the system as a whole is dependent on this being the case.

How the world's best-performing school systems come out on top Sept 2007 Barber and Mourshed : McKinsey & Co

The solution is having a comprehensive vision

Winning hearts and minds across the institutional structures

And educating and winning the support of the workforce and parents -

Especially Teachers and Principals - school managers

ICT in schools - The Paradox - Autonomy v Control

How do we develop a comprehensive vision ?

The optimum provision for the teaching and learning in the 21st century

Keep the focus on teaching and learning : A constant for policy needs to be, while it seems obvious, the core of the education process lies in the teaching and learning which takes place every day in countless classrooms Education Today - the OECD perspective OECD 2009

Not a Bolt on approach Not just content and infrastructure

It is about the medium of teaching and learning being digital, multimedia, multisensory, timely and relevant – across the curriculum It is about what happens in classrooms during lessons

It is about unleashing the potential to transform teaching and learning for all children

A comprehensive vision

A comprehensive vision

– a core of competences for all teachers to enable them to optimise the use of an integrated system to benefit learners and online environments which support resource sharing and problem solving.

– a basic technology entitlement for all

– Student focused technology which harnesses and builds on student’s innate digital literacy.

– Powerful teacher managed technology which empowers teachers to fluently deliver interactive and multimedia rich teaching and learning and creatively utilise the digital output of their students.

– Interactive & connected classrooms systems that provide both learner and teacher with on-demand access to the full resources of the network and the wider internet so that learning can be spontaneous, lively and relevant to students.

It is about unleashing the potential to transform teaching and learning for all children

The Basic Technology entitlement

Next generation assessment and group feedback technology so every student is an active participant in class and teachers benefit from a continual and up to date stream of data on which to base informed decisions.

Learner response systems mean that enquiry basedtechniques of teaching embrace all the children

Everyone is involved

Everyone stays on task



the Interactive Whiteboard is a Trojan horse for digital content in the classroom.

Because it resembles a drywipe board it is accepted

- but it then opens up a whole new worldof opportunity

A whole new world of opportunity

As you work...............you start questioning everything you have done in the past and how you can adapt it....... Then you start questioning the whole concept of what you originally did.

As you work...............you start questioningeverything you have done in the past and how youcan adapt it....... Then you start questioning the whole concept of what you originally did.

from Teaching, Learning and Technology - a reporton 10 years of Apple classroom of tomorrow ACOTresearch – published in 1995 !!



a core of competences for all teachers

a basic technology entitlement for all

It is about developing pedagogy/ practices to embrace the power offered by new technologies to transform learning

It is about developing digital resources that serve this new pedagogy – new practices


A core of competences for all teachersA basic technology entitlement for allPedagogy and Practices to transform learningDigital resources to serve this new pedagogyIt is about communicating the power and benefit

associated with this vision

It is about getting policy alignment across institutions –

teacher training, leadership training,policy level institutions –ministries and agencies,


And it is about changing expectationsabout what is acceptable as the newstandard for the 21st century

Thank you for your attention