Carol Allen, Personalised Learning for ALL

Saturday

Carol Allen, 11:45, will discuss how the same teaching and learning strategies and methodologies employed to include students can be extended to support staff and voluntary helpers in order to facilitate their own inclusive learning.

Personalised learning has been a key feature of effective working practice within the SEN field for many years. This session will look at how the same teaching and learning strategies and methodologies employed to include students can be extended to support staff and voluntary helpers in order to facilitate their own inclusive learning empowered by the effective use of ICT and technology.

Mrs. E.A. Draffan, Developing skills and capabilities for the use of gadgets and computers in teaching and learning environments.

Friday, Mrs. E.A. Draffan, will illustrate how some students with specific learning difficulties have developed strategies to make the best use of gadgets such as recorders, mobile phones and other handheld devices as well as computers to assist their study skills.

The use of assistive technologies will also be mentioned with hints and tips along the way.

Dr Steve Chinn, A Framework for Maths

Friday
Dr Steve Chinn, 10:45, will look at how maths can be taught to acknowledge learners’ skills and deficits and will also consider the key characteristics of good technological support.

The technology used to support maths learning can only be successful if the underlying maths structure is effective and built around the different ways that children learn. This seminar will look at how maths can be taught to acknowledge learners’ skills and deficits and will also consider the key characteristics of good technological support.

Professor John Munro, Learning to teach students who have reading and literacy learning difficulties

Associate Professor John Munro of Melbourne University, 11:45, will describe one approach to using educational technology to train teachers to teach students who have reading and literacy learning difficulties.

This seminar describes one approach to using educational technology to train teachers to teach students who have reading and literacy learning difficulties.
To successfully teach these students, teachers need to
• understand how readers read,
• identify the multiple causes of these difficulties
• assess and diagnose these difficulties
• use effective teaching procedures.

The approach uses educational technology procedures to teach these components. It simulate the processes involved in early word reading and shows how dyslexia is caused. Second, it shows various types of reading difficulty being diagnosed. Third it shows various teaching procedures being used in regular classrooms.

Judith Stansfield, Matching ICT tools to dyslexic needs

Thursday
Judith Stansfield, 10:45, will provide exemplification of how new and emerging technologies can be used to support dyslexic children and young people to gain access to the curriculum and help them become more independent learners.

Bob Black, Developing early reading skills to promote and develop spoken language

Wednesday

Bob Black, 13:00, will focus on children with Down syndrome and others with speech and language difficulties with the seminar demonstrating how teachers can use early years ICT to promote language and literacy skills. In essence the seminar will assist teachers in ‘teaching reading to teach talking‘.

For children with Down syndrome and others with speech and language difficulties the seminar will demonstrate how teachers can use early years ICT to promote language and literacy skills. In essence the seminar will assist teachers in ‘teaching reading to teach talking‘. The Link between reading and productive speech has been well researched and proven since Lesleys Duffen’s first paper and the work of the Downs Syndrome educational trust and others. Children with Downs syndrome in common with many other visual learners have a specific learning profile, not just a global delay

Pete Wells, Hollywood on a Shoestring!

Wednesday

Award winning Pete Wells, 11:45, will demonstrate an exciting range of software and techniques that can turn any classroom into a lively, creative Hollywood studio which can benefit all learners!

“Lights, Camera, Action!” Join the digital movie revolution with Pete Wells as he demonstrates an exciting range of software and techniques that can turn any classroom into a lively, creative Hollywood studio which can benefit all learners!
In this fun-packed seminar Pete will show a number of cheap and cheerful ways to turn any child into the next Spielberg! See how learners have benefited from simple, sensory stop-motion animation, exciting Chromakey projects, digital story telling projects (produced without using a camera) as well as scandalous, revealing celebrity interviews!
“You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!”

Carol Allen, Creativity and SEN made accessible through ICT

Wednesday
Carol Allen, 10:45, will look at catching pupil’s imagination and providing purposeful activities with outcomes that have value with examples based on recent classroom practice.

All learners have the capacity to express their ideas, thoughts and dreams and gain pleasure and enjoyment from doing so, but how are these to be captured when some experience great barriers to traditional learning routes? This session will focus on easy to replicate, practical ideas for all learners whatever their level of ability and skill. Imagination catching; purposeful activities with outcomes that have value are the focus of the session with examples based on recent classroom practice.

Chris Olley,King’s College, London and Education Interactive, Improving the Teaching and Learning of maths and science through the appropriate use of

The TI-Nspire platform represents a significant move forwards for maths educators. Typically a department may have the resources to invest the time and money in using one or maybe two of the dynamic software or graphics calculators available, leaving a wide range of the curriculum untouched. TI-Nspire integrates all of the very best dynamic software into one application which runs exactly the same on a desktop PC and a handheld device for easy classroom use. Multiple representations of mathematics are the natural outcome allowing teachers to support their students in developing mathematical ideas, rather than practicing methods. The session will act as an introduction to TI-Nspire together with an engagement with the possibilities it presents.

Dan Sutch, Doug Belshaw, Teacher, Ridgewood School, Doncaster,Teachers as Innovators

This seminar will look at available resources and strategies that support teachers in developing new approaches to teaching and learning, empowering teachers to act as the innovators of new educational practices. The session will also highlight the resistances to change within schools and share different strategies used by innovative teachers to reduce these barriers. The aim of the session is to enable participants to leave with knowledge of the tools and strategies to develop new practices in their own schools.

Leon Cych, Director Learn 4 Life, Using Second Life in the Schools' Sector

Leon Cych, from Learn 4 Life, talks about examples of the uses of Second Life in the schools' sector. He will be demonstrating several current projects and showing how this virtual platform can be used to extend teaching and learning, training and CPD in schools both locally and globally.He will be highlighting the benefits and drawbacks of using a MUVE (Multi User Virtual Environment) to deliver education for the 21st Century. How is this relatively new learning platform being used to engage teachers and pupils in a more compelling ways.

Simon Brennand, Deputy Headteacher, Philip Morant School & College, Enriching the curriculum & assessment system

This seminar will showcase curriculum enrichment work across Key Stages 1-4, the use of CADCAM and the encouragement of problem-based flexible learning.Resourcing and sustaining cross-network innovation will also be considered, alongside outcomes which can be used to assess the impact of these transformations

Ross Wallis, Head of Art, Sidcot School, Exploring and Exploiting Digital Media in Art and Design Education

This seminar aims to introduce teachers to the potential of digital media in art education through a collage of examplar material that encompasses digital Image-manipulation, animation, film making, web design and interactive multimedia, from classroom projects with younger years, to individual A level work created by students who have gone on to study and practice digital art and design at degree level and as a profession. The session will end with a glimpse at current developments such as the use of mobile devices, blogging, vlogging, vle’s web 2.0 and the potential significance of Bebo.

Dr John Morgan, Steve Moseley, Assistant Deputy Head, Ashton Park School, Bristol, Enquiring Minds

Enquiring Minds is a new approach to teaching and learning which taps into students’ interests, questions and ideas and uses them to develop skills of research and knowledge creation. The approach has been developed and trialed by Futurelab and two partner schools, and a guide to Enquiring Minds is to be launched at BETT. This seminar will introduce the approach, tell the story of the project and present some of the findings about the approach from our research in schools.

Handheld technologies in the curriculum

Dearne School, will look at the use of handheld technologies in the curriculum

Alan Cameron, Education Officer and project manager, Effective Learning & Teaching through Video Conferencing

4 rurally isolated primary schools have been engaged in a 2-year programme with 30 primary pupils receiving weekly lessons via video conferencing from an instrumental tutor on brass instruments. The project has been greatly enhanced through partnership working with the London Symphony Orchestra. Rod Franks (Principal Trumpet, LSO) has given additional lessons via video-link direct from the St Luke’s Centre, London to the remote schools. This session will look at how the quality of learning and teaching exceeded Headteachers’ expectations.

Rob Couch, Head of ICT Services, Guernsey Education Department, Enabling Primary Curriculum Innovation through a Managed Service

Guernsey embarked on an ambitious strategic change programme to support learning through ICT. In September 2005 all the Island’s schools came back to a completely new managed ICT environment focused on enabling innovation, the 17 primary schools had agreed priority areas for the development of ICT integrated with AfL principles; learning intentions and success criteria are used to create assessment and recording facilities within SIMS. Schools are encouraged to post units of work online in order to build up an island-wide resource of knowledge, experience and practice. Elements of transformation are already evident.

Dr. Tim Rudd, Simon Kaufman, Teacher Advisor - ICT, Mathematics, Inclusion Support and Development Service, Barnsley, Approaches to learner voice in s

This seminar will focus on the principles, perspectives and practices around increasing ‘learner voice’ in schools, particularly in light of the personalisation agenda. It will look at prior research, alternative practice, tools for participation and empowering learners. It will also show some examples of projects and practice that have fostered greater learner voice and demonstrate why this is a key issue to consider in relation to future teaching and learning, pedagogy and the organisation of schools.

Andy Lowe, ELearning Director, St Paul’s Catholic College. Captivate students and enhance learning with a learning platform

Andy will demonstrate how to use a learning platform to personalise learning, improve results and inspire pupils from a school that has already achieved this. The talk will also cover how to make teaching resources interesting on a VLE and advice on the best ways to help teachers get their lesson materials online.

Peter Yeomans & Steve Wheeler, 11:45, Wednesday, Collaborative tools in teaching and learning: the University of Plymoth example

This seminar will give a broad overview of the challenges and impact of collaborative tools in learning and teaching.It will aim to introduce some of the theory and pedagogy of wiki based learning and teaching. It will look at the implementation issues for a school in terms of web based technology and the impact upon the approach to learning & teaching drawing upon the lessons learned during a pilot project by the University of Plymouth in partnership with local schools.