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ICT AUP Review

May 27, 2013 - 12:27 | elearning

Summer is here! And so policies get reviewed. Next year my school will introduce two class sets of iPads, a class set of Microsoft Surface Pros and issue an iPod Touch to every teacher in the Junior School. Oh, and BYOD to 220 Sixth Form students with WiFI flooded throughout the site. More about why this combination of gadgets another time, but it’s probably enough to say we are trying on a number of strategies to see which fits best and what works in our context So, ICT AUP review. Why? Technology use is changing (has changed!); Social media has been causing our pastoral team some headaches; We need to protect our pupils. What are we aiming for? A document … Continue reading →

ICT Innovator AUPs for teachers

March 31, 2013 - 14:58 | ICT, learning, workflow

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Acceptable Use Policies are a necessary and important document – contract – for teachers in any school because it is imperative that we are protected from the potential danger working online can bring. Following an intense scrutiny of safeguarding and child protection at our school, we published a strict and comprehensive Staff ICT AUP. For example, staff should not connect with any pupil on facebook until one year after they are of school leaving age, and only then with caution as through siblings and friends it can connect you to current pupils. However, two years on we have included in the new ICT strategy a review of this policy to incorporate a section for innovative teachers who want to employ … Continue reading →

Digital Textbooks – Yes or No?

February 22, 2013 - 19:10 | elearning, workflow

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Digital textbooks are an interesting beast. Do you use them? My school subscribes to Kerboodle, Doddle, Dynamic-Learning and others. Today my daughter asked to see if I might borrow copies of a science textbook teachers roll out during lessons that seems to be much better than the issued course book she has. I found out that is available to her electronically via kerboodle. But this was not sufficient: “but that’s no use to me is it?” she quipped when I suggested she already had access to this material. She wanted the paper version. Why? She wants to be able to use the book on her desk (where her lovely iMac is also located) without using her computer because she wants … Continue reading →

It’s alright MA, I’m only trying..

December 28, 2012 - 15:15 | ICT, ICTinSubjects, Masters

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Over two years ago I made the choice to suspend my MA for family reasons. I don’t like to discuss my family online so only minimal detail is shared here. However, now the postponement deadline has passed and I face a decision of whether or not to complete my Masters in Education: Leading Innovation and Change. Sitting in Ealing library (incredibly busy BTW - hard to get a seat at a computer or non-computer desk – the world is changing) in an attempt to plan the next two weeks work leading to 6000 words of academic prose, this post is to warm up my brain. I restarted the MA in September, convinced that SOLO taxonomy was the most fruitful research I … Continue reading →

Creating Frog SOLO taxonomy rubrics

August 24, 2012 - 12:13 | frog