Transcript Towards your vision- evolution or revolution
Towards your vision evolution or revolution?
RM Strategic Conference Spring 2007
Towards your vision evolution or revolution
Ian Wilson Assistant Headteacher Manor High School, Oadby
Manor High School A Leicestershire 10-14 High School with 920 on roll.
High performing pupils with low indices of deprivation and high prior attainment.
A modest budget, without specialist status (until January this year) or other additional budget streams.
The Vision “Strive for Excellence” Pupil standards in ICT should be comparable to those in core subjects.
The use of ICT for teaching and learning in all subjects should be excellent.
Management and operational use of ICT should be models for the pupils.
Steps to success Staff confidence A stable and resilient network Increased levels of access Embedding, in SoW and pedagogy Openness to new opportunities and ideas
Staff confidence?
Involvement Listening Training ICT development needs integrated into Performance Management outcomes and School and Departmental Improvement plans Good exemplars
Stable and resilient network.
Staff and pupils have to trust that the system works Invest in high performance servers and infrastructure Include resilient features such as RAID, UPS and redundant power supplies. (Don’t be complacent!!) Over 99% Network uptime for the last 2 years
Who will help? Build partnerships!
With: Local Authority Suppliers Other schools Business Other professionals QCA/BECTA/SSAT/……….
Government initiatives NOF NGfL ICT SAT (or not) LfT ELC Re-modelling …..and there must be more!!
A message for the Head teacher
“It ain’t broke because it’s different” Look at outcomes not methodologies.
Innovation The “mosaic network” based on using the most appropriate and cost effective hardware solution for delivery of classroom ICT.
Move away from a one size fits all, homogeneous technology based on “fat client” PC running the current version of MS Windows.
The mosaic solution Consists of a combination of: Thin client PC and devices for low demand applications.
“Fat” PC for demanding and varied environments.
Mac computers working natively and integrated into the network.
Flexibly and sustainably deployed.
Some considerations Thin client computing is a viable solution for low demand applications on very modest hardware platforms.
Thin client is not necessarily a solution for all situations. However since you can save money elsewhere, some environments can benefit from high specification “fat” PC, within the same overall spend.
Outcomes of the mosaic Longer life cycle for hardware performing low demand tasks Ability to focus expenditure on those machines where high performance is critical Deploy varied technologies to match the task, e.g.: MAC for media work, fat client for CAD Flexibility
Left to do……..
Learning platform, more than just content delivery!!
Web 2 (Wickis, blogging, podding and Webcasting) What about the communication bit of ICT?
Wireless and portability