Last August on the Becta Collaboration site I asked =
the
following:
For several years =
now we
have been saying that those responsible in schools should do a regular =
audit of
student/family posession of ICTs. Schools have invariably set up =
some
sort of survey or audit of what facilities they have at home but less so =
in
terms of remote access. To some extent we have been speculating as =
to
what is in reality happening. We get anecdotal evidences - some =
schools
are more keen to boast about the number of home accessions of their VLE =
than
others, but the purpose, duration and quality of that access may be =
quite
nondescript.
I was reminded of this quite forcibly, early this Monday morning, by a =
post
from a forum in New Zealand. Specific questions are asked which, I
suspect schools should be answering here:
- what
is the connectivity level that each school has - eg prioritised 2Mb
symmetric or ... ?
- what
levels of inbound and outbound bandwidth does this relate to per =
family
for each school? (Many services are asymmetric.)
- what
services hosted at the school could / do students and families =
access?
- what
services hosted by others on behalf of the school could /do =
students and
families access?
- what
level of bandwidth is available to these external hosting =
companies?
- how
many potential families would each external host be expecting to =
support?
- how
many simultaneous accesses would each home connection be expected =
to
support? (In my family there are 4 of us and right now 3 PCs =
and one
MacBook are hammering away at the internet.)
Perhaps someone =
would be
brave enough to use/modify this set of questions for the UK scene? =
Or
does anyone want to encourage/support me in this foolhardy venture?
Further questions then arise such as: Having got good access what =
do we expect
parents to use it for? How can we get parents to be more engaged =
with their child(ren)’s
learning?
BW
Ray Tolley FEIDCT, NAACE Fellow, ACQI, =
MBILD
ICT Education Consultant
Maximise ICT Ltd
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ld.mnscu.edu/
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tp://www.efoliointheuk.blogspot.com/
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k/eFolio-01.htm
T: =
http://twitter.com/efolio
Winner of the IMS 'Leadership Regional Award =
2009'
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From rjt@maximise-ict.co.uk Sat Mar 6 11:52:44 2010
From: rjt@maximise-ict.co.uk (Ray Tolley)
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 11:52:44 -0000
Subject: [Advisory] Parental Engagement
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For those thinking about the subject of Parental Engagement, I attach a
document which should be of interest.
Best Wishes,
Ray Tolley FEIDCT, NAACE Fellow, ACQI, MBILD
ICT Education Consultant
Maximise ICT Ltd
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