Transcript The Compton School

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• Objectives: To share good practice in the
implementation of Fronter
• To give some “top tips” and ideas for
implementation
• To suggest next steps towards an online
learning community
• The Compton is a convertor Academy in
Barnet, N. London.
• Generally high level of ICT use across the
curriculum
• Recognised by Naace through the award of ICT
Kitemark
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Introduced Fronter in 2008
3 year plan to develop online resources
Initial focus on Key Stage 4
Recognised as a London MLE Champion school
in 2011.
Three aims at beginning of 2010-11
• 1) Access to lesson resources
Three aims at beginning 2010-11
• 2) Setting homework online
More personalised feed back
More creative home work?
Three aims and beginning 2010-11
• 3) Developing online communication
Digital leaders
• Getting students involved
Learning
Deep
Where are we now?
Swap
traditional
practices
with ICT
Engage
learners
by using a
richer mix
of media
Empower
learners to
Change the take control
content,
of their own
process and
learning
Deepen
location of
learning
through the learning
use of ICT
Empower
Extend
Enhance
Shallow
Enrich
Exchange
Passive
Pupil engagement
Active
NCSL 2007
Next step: Empower learners to take
control…
• Developing online learning communities
– Continuously updated content
– Generated from a range of sources
Developing staff skills
Our aims
• To provide all course content online
Top tips
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Set clear targets
Content is king
Setting home work
Update content regularly
Self generating content
Co-ordinated training
Get the students involved
Potential pit falls
• Student access issues
• School hardware problems
• Staff “inertia”
Measuring the benefit
• Student survey feedback positive
• Department and whole school consultation
groups
[email protected]
@MrSimkinsTCS