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Would you believe this was after my Stag night?
To record and get feedback from the world regarding Islay High Schools move down the ICT route
The Islay High School Project
As a School of Ambition and Excellence we are some way down the route of these 4 strands
1. Developing the leadership potential and capacity of the whole school, Staff and Pupils 2. Introducing Vocational Courses to the curriculum 3. Removing the age and stage restrictions from the certificated courses. 4. Developing the use of ICT to support the curriculum
I am heavily involved with the ICT strand so that is what I will be talking about mainly. Though, of course, the other strands will be brought in as well. So what are we planning in the ICT Strand?
Every Teacher has a Tablet PC A wireless network Wireless Projectors in every teaching area A presentation space in the Assembly Hall A Media Server A Class Server Existing courses digitised S1 'Benchmarked' for IC3 Giving them individual curriculum in S1/2 Once these are in place then give every pupil a UMPC computer
All of these are in Partnership with Microsoft, Dell, Diageo (Large local employer) and Prodigy (Certiport solution provider).
Maybe more partners in the future We have just started down this route. I am sure we will have lots of challenges ahead.
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1 comment:
Hear, hear. I've been saying, sometimes not so quietly, that whatever "computing" teaches, it is neither computing nor ICT. If it goes beyond very basic skills - the equivalent of how to chalk on your slate or sharpen a pencil - it certainly does not provide useful new media knowledge or experience. This, in regions like mine whose litigation-averse councillors impose Luddite lock down on education, strangling the only hope the rest of us have to fill the gap. There are other more enlightened services who do better, of course, but I don't know if children are really taught how to learn or conduct themselves safely in the digital age.
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