Miles Berry, Terry Freedman, Personalised Learning through Technology

This seminar will explore how ICT can contribute to a new experience of schooling, assessment for learning, pupils’ ownership of learning, peer mentoring and parental engagement, thus fulfilling the aspirations of the Gilbert Report. The design of schools for the future will be discussed, as will possibilities for teachers’ CPD. Provision for more radical interpretations of personalised learning will also be discussed. There will be practical examples of how technology such as Learning Platforms, VLEs, MISs, blogging, handheld devices and home computers are being used, and there will be lots of ideas for teachers to try out for themselves.