[Advisory] Impact of ICT in education - Online Reference Group now has 30 members
Roger Broadie
Roger@BroadieAssociates.co.uk
Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:00:17 +0000
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Colleagues,
I circulated the email below about a week ago, and as a result a very
broadly-based online group has come together to debate how to quantify
the impact of ICT in Education. I am re-sending this email in case
some of you missed it and would like to join the group. We are
currently 30 strong with members who are in infant/primary schools
(4), secondary schools (6), local authority teams (2), university
departments (5), government agencies (1), commercial companies (2) or
who are independent consultants (9), (awaiting confirmation of role - 1)
Please reply off-list if you would like to join the group.
Roger.
Re-send of email sent last week:
Colleagues
I am starting work with a number of schools to find ways to quantify
the impacts of ICT in education.
I would like to assemble an online group to help develop approaches
and tools that the schools can use to do this.
If you would like to help with this please reply to me off-list. The
role of the group will be to comment on proposed approaches,
suggesting ways they might be refined and improved. Then as we start
to put these into practice the impact scenarios and analyses from the
schools will be circulated round the group for further comment.
The approaches and tools we manage to produce through the group will
be made freely available to all, from multiple sources.
The aim is to find practical and pragmatic ways of looking at how
pupils, teachers and other staff, and parents are doing things
differently. The schools involved will be selected because they have
committed to making the digital environment a natural part of the
working lives of all - enabling it to be creatively used whenever it
can make working processes and learning more effective.
We will need to link the rather simplistic data that can be gathered
in digital environments (or otherwise), with 'bottom-line' measures
such as how hours are being used differently, how outcomes are
improving or changing, and how pounds are being spent to enable this.
This will almost certainly involve looking inside working processes,
analysing how they are changing, and devising ways of gathering the
deeper quality evidence that will convince educators the impacts are
real and valuable. How it is all presented will be critical. We need
the educators to be willing to strongly support the headlines that
politicians and budget holders need to see, that there is substantial
positive impact from ICT that can be replicated across schools.
This is going to be a journey which I hope will lead from usable if
rough approaches, eventually to validated action research that schools
will find it possible and sensible to pursue as part of their CPD and
school improvement processes.
So who wants to play?
Roger.
Roger Broadie,
Director,
Broadie Associates
http://www.BroadieAssociates.co.uk
Roger@BroadieAssociates.co.uk
99 High Street, Chatteris,
Cambs, PE16 6NP, UK.
tel: +44 1 354 695583
mobile: +44 7710 328672
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lleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>I circulated the email below about a =
week ago, and as a result a very broadly-based online group has come =
together to debate how to quantify the impact of ICT in Education. I am =
re-sending this email in case some of you missed it and would like to =
join the group. We are currently 30 strong with members who are in =
infant/primary schools (4), secondary schools (6), local authority =
teams (2), university departments (5), government agencies (1), =
commercial companies (2) or who are independent consultants (9), =
(awaiting confirmation of role - 1)</div><div><br></div><div>Please =
reply off-list if you would like to join the =
group.</div><div><br></div><div>Roger.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>=
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iv><div>I am starting work with a number of schools to find ways to =
quantify the impacts of ICT in =
education. </div><div><br></div><div>I would like to assemble an =
online group to help develop approaches and tools that the schools can =
use to do this.</div><div><br></div><div>If you would like to help with =
this please reply to me off-list. The role of the group will be to =
comment on proposed approaches, suggesting ways they might be refined =
and improved. Then as we start to put these into practice the impact =
scenarios and analyses from the schools will be circulated round the =
group for further comment.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The =
approaches and tools we manage to produce through the group will be made =
freely available to all, from multiple =
sources.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The aim is to find =
practical and pragmatic ways of looking at how pupils, teachers and =
other staff, and parents are doing things differently. The schools =
involved will be selected because they have committed to making the =
digital environment a natural part of the working lives of all - =
enabling it to be creatively used whenever it can make working processes =
and learning more effective.</div><div><br></div><div>We will need to =
link the rather simplistic data that can be gathered in digital =
environments (or otherwise), with 'bottom-line' measures such as how =
hours are being used differently, how outcomes are improving or =
changing, and how pounds are being spent to enable this. This will =
almost certainly involve looking inside working processes, analysing how =
they are changing, and devising ways of gathering the deeper quality =
evidence that will convince educators the impacts are real and valuable. =
How it is all presented will be critical. We need the educators to be =
willing to strongly support the headlines that politicians and budget =
holders need to see, that there is substantial positive impact from ICT =
that can be replicated across schools.</div><div><br></div><div>This is =
going to be a journey which I hope will lead from usable if rough =
approaches, eventually to validated action research that schools will =
find it possible and sensible to pursue as part of their CPD and school =
improvement processes.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>So who =
wants to =
play?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Roger.</div><div><br></div><=
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