strategy: next steps dominic norrish, group director of technology, united learning...

Strategy: Next Steps

Dominic Norrish, Group Director of Technology, United Learning

dominic.norrish@unitedlearning.org.uk@domnorrish

The elements of a successful Digital Strategy

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A digital vision in a sentence…

A school where every pupil and every teacher has access to the most effective technology tools, whenever they are the best way of learning or teaching

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A school where no one talks about technology anymore

Focus on learning

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Leadership at all levels

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Image: Adam Webster, Caterham School

CPD… training, coaching, support, challenge“Even the best technology cannot transcend poor teaching. It will still be poor teaching, just faintly lit by blinking blue LEDs”

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And now a short intermission…

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What should be the strategy for ensuring ‘every pupil and every teacher has access to the most effective technology tools, whenever they are the best way of learning or teaching’?

And now a short intermission…(2)

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By when will you have made the transition from technology being something that you ‘do’ to something that transparently suffuses learning?

Infrastructure

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“We’re gonna need a bigger boat”

The era of ubiquitous, vampiric devices is utterly different from anything a school has previously experienced

• £200k-£300k?

• Passive & Active

• Wireless

• Broadband

• Audio Visual integration

Infrastructure (2)

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Cut the cord, remove the barrier

Mirroring changes the dynamic

Streaming solution + big dumb TV = participative, democratic, engaged learning

Ecosystem

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An ecosystem that dissolves barriers between school and not-school and supports in a frictionless manner the core processes of learning - course content, communication, assessment loops - and which makes device irrelevant.

• Files -> Cloud

• Workflow

• Future proof

• BYOB-ready

• Functionality v. cost of change

Transparent

Frictionless

Device agnostic

Ecosystem (2)

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Email, calendar, unlimited storage, productivity suiteBrowser based, apps availableFree (kinda)OneNote & SharePoint workflow options

Email, calendar, unlimited storage, productivity suiteBrowser based, apps availableFree (at the point of use)‘Google Classroom’ workflow

Devices: we still need to provide them, for now

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Bandwagon?

Standardise at the level of ecosystem & connectivity

Different devices suit different modalities & ages

Now: £100 per pupil per year

The elements of a successful Digital Strategy

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Any questions?

dominic.norrish@unitedlearning.org.uk@domnorrishwww.educate1to1.org