Digital environments and their role incommunication and collaboration

Simon Wilson & Ben Milne

• Introductions

• What are digital environments?

• What are the aims and outcomes of their deployment?

• How digital environments have developed at Ashgrove School, Penarth

• What are the outcomes?

Seminar Aims

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Ashgrove School

A school for students with ASC aged 2 to 19.

• Dedicated ASD provision

• ICT embedded into curriculum throughout

• ICT Curriculum focuses on enabling ICT Capability.

• Early adoption to empower

Ashgrove School

Naace Film

This is how we remember technology being presented in 2009. Purple slides, green text and underlining. Did

jazzy colors ever make presentations interesting? Children with learning difficulties (and most

neurotypical people) find this text exceptionally difficult to read never mind tolerate. If your ICT

Capability is poor or the technology is poorly presented then people fail to see it as a positive influence. It will not

permeate, it will be seen as a hurdle and it will be rejected because life is easier without it.

A digital nightmare (2009)

Developing Digital

EnvironmentsWhat is needed?

Foundations of ICT Capability Provisio

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Attitude

Skills

ICT Capability

Development Timeline

2010 - 2011

2011 - 2012

2009 - 2010AssembliesAssemblies

Introduction of Introduction of MacsMacs

Looking for Looking for partnerspartners

PermeationPermeationCreative Creative

CurriculumCurriculumTechnical SupportTechnical Support

Club EvernoteClub Evernote

Introduction of iPadsIntroduction of iPadsFurther Technical Further Technical

SupportSupportCentralised PrintingCentralised Printing

Cemented PartnershipsCemented PartnershipsNintendo OlympicsNintendo Olympics

BETT PresentationBETT PresentationAnimation ProjectsAnimation Projects

EmailEmailTeaching with Teaching with

ReflectionReflectionStaff ProvisionStaff Provision

MDMMDM

First Steps

Provision

Attitude

Skills

‘A key characteristic of these new technologies is “learning by doing” – users need to be immersed in

and “play with” the affordances that these new digital environments offer, and hence over time get a sense of how they can change practice.’ Conole

(2011:403)

Permeation

Volcanoes

Developing Provision

• Cross Platform Approach

• Smart Money

• Quality over quantity

Changing Skills

• Expertise

• Specialisations

• Training

• Broad

Lion Fights

I've Got Know Head

Attitudes

• Greater Trust

• Respect

• Willingness

• Recognition of benefits

Outcomes