Since the course this week, I have been getting more enthusiastic by the day for the whole project. I’ve been interviewing for new teachers all day today and yesterday – today for ICT teachers. I found myself asking them how they envisage the whole web 2.0 thing changing teaching & learning over the next few years!
Part of my job is lesson observation, mentoring BTs, sharing good practice, etc, and I have been musing about ways of using video and editing to capture and share classroom practice.
But the major thoughts I have been having – in between the interviews – is about the strategic management of change to implement effective use of ICT across the curriculum and across the 6th form centre from the start. My view has always been – in my previous job at Woodhouse College – that we should enable the “early adopters” and enthusiasts to fly, on the one hand, whilst training and setting minimum participation standards for the rest and forcing people to get accustomed to new technology by making certain information, etc, only available tht way.
So – for example – we might say to staff that at a minumum we expect them to use Fronter to store certain documentation like on a shared drive, including handouts, homeworks, etc, etc. We might make learning plans and certain data and systems have to be on Fronter. And we might expect staff to use IWBs (with training). Beyond that, we provide training in Fronter advanced tools and in using other softare packages that is open to enthusiasts but not required.
Anyway, that’s my thoughts at the mom
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