Cross Curricular Seminars
Wednesday
Karl Hopwood: Headteacher, Semley CE VA Primary School
This session will outline some of the risks and benefits associated with the use of communication technologies in the primary classroom. It will showcase some resources for both key stages and suggest ways in which to integrate the teaching of internet safety into the everyday curriculum.
Learning Objectives: to understand some of the possible ways of delivering internet safety messages within the classroom. to know where to access resources to help to deliver aspects of internet safety in order to keep children safe. to have a raised awareness of the risks and benefits of using communication technologies to support teaching and learning in the classroom
Lyndsay Grant and Tash Lee, Futurelab
Mobile technology offers enormous potential for young people to learn in new and exciting ways, at home, school or in the community. This seminar challenges our preconceptions of how, when and where we learn and explores innovative ideas for enabling learners to learn wherever they are, using mobile technology.
Thursday
Miles Berry & Terry Freedman, British Computer Society
Emerging 'web2.0' applications have the potential to transform e-learning, by giving central place to social learning through communication and collaboration and opening up choice and voice dimensions of personalisation. The session explores case studies of how wikis, blogs, podcasts and folksonomies are being used in the classroom and beyond.
Catherine Grout, JISC
This session will introduce the JISC's two Digitisation Programmes that are creating an exciting range of new digital resources of value for life long learning and research. It will also comment on trends in the e-content environment for user access to resources and on how public sector funders of e-content are beginning to work together to address some of the gaps in e-content provision and to improve the users experience when accessing digital resources. Diana Laurillard and Dr Harvey Mellar, Institute of Education
A summary of lessons learned from collaborative research projects on the pedagogic design of learning technologies, across FE and HE institutions in London. The focus is on the tools and mechanisms for ensuring that research links through to its use in teaching. Participants will be invited to engage in the practitioner community.
Friday
Chris Jukes: Headteacher, Mount Pleasant Lane JMI and N School
This workshop will be looking at how a number of primary schools have collaborated with each other.
Terry Freedman, Janet Roberts & Russell Ingleby, NAACE
What does good ICT look like and how do we achieve it? Several leading classroom practitioners pass on some tips - prepare to be challenged!
Ian Usher, NAACE/Bucks CC
Visitors will gain an overview of school and local authority-level issues associated with implementing a Virtual Learning Environment, discover what works and what doesn't in using VLEs schools at both primary and secondary level - all this will be illustrated by work carried out in a variety of schools across two Local Authorities.
Saturday
13:15New Tools '07 - Forget the Horizon Enjoy the Here and Now - Ways to Make a Difference using ICT
John Davitt, British Computer Society
12 practical and proven ways to make a difference to the quality and range of student's learning with ICT as a catalyst.
David Baugh, Denbighshire LEA
Using Digital Media in education has huge potential for encouraging creativity in classrooms. There is extensive evidence that shows that using digital media with students increases: motivation, on task time, thinking skills and collaborative skills. This session will show how digital media can be integrated into everyday school activities.
What ideas or practice would you hope to adapt and incorporate into your own classroom practice from attendance at any of these sessions? Are there enough cross curricular sessions in the BETT seminar programme? Post your thoughts and help shape the discussions about the future of the BETT seminar programme.
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