Kinect™, Kindles™, Know How and Learning Impact!
Introduction
Throughout 2011 Vital and Naace worked together to help schools engage with 3rd millennium learning development. This took the form of afternoon and twilight regional sessions with Bernadette Brooks of Naace, Steve Bunce and Duncan Garbett of Vital and local schools who are reaping the benefits of inspired use of technology.
This case study describes the content of the sessions and provides links to the resources used, for the benefit of those unable to attend the live events.
Event opportunities
Attendance at the events offered schools the following opportunities:
• Free access to three new Vital subject and special interest Portals for five staff
• Engagement in a trial project using Kinect in the classroom
• Membership of a test-bed of schools using Kindles to empower learning
• Information about Naace's CPD programme (including extensive range of free courses) as well as how to be a pilot school for 3rd Millennium Learning award
• To meet school representatives in your area that want to collaborate with you through the use of technology
• Information about the free Self-review Framework; the key points to make it all work efficiently
• Access to Vital's collaboration tools
• Access to Vital’s Online conferencing system (for inter-school networking)
• Top Tips document for 10 subject areas.
Background information
In the autumn term Naace engaged with schools to talk about 3rd Millennium Learning, focused on celebrating schools' achievements in creating an environment and curriculum that will stimulate more and better learning, presented in ways that will inform and inspire parents.
From September2011, Vital introduced the subject and special interest area portals in the following areas: Primary ICT (delivered by Naace members), Secondary IT, E-safety, English and Literacy, Maths and Numeracy, Science, Geography and Modern Foreign Languages (other subject areas to follow).
Delegates at these events were some of the first to have direct access to these new programmes from Naace and Vital affording great opportunities to learn about the benefits and influence their future direction. Attendees were able to review the Vital Portals at these meetings and receive free access for five school staff.
All programmes offer schools an extremely cost-effective way to deliver school-based Professional Development. The focus was very much upon the impact both the Vital Professional programme and ICT can have upon the quality of learning and teaching.
In addition schools may be invited to share their experiences and celebrate their impact in learning on Saturday 10 March - the final day of the Naace Strategic Conference 2012 - as well as in the resources area on the Vital website.
Schools presented feedback from test-bed programmes using Kindles and Kinects in class, including details on how they are being used, what the impact upon learning is and so much more. Those that attended the events learned how they can engage, enabling them, their school and their pupils to benefit from enhanced learning opportunities in the new academic year.
Programme and resources
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Session overview (pdf, 31.9KB) |
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Session details (pdf, 32.9KB) |
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Naace slides - September 2011 (Powerpoint, 1.36MB) |
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Vital slides (Powerpoint, 3.46MB) |
Further information
If you would like further information on these events, or might be interested in attending a similar event in the future, please contact:
Duncan Garbett on 0121 627 6419 or duncan.garbett@vital.ac.uk.
Anna Street on 0115 945 7238 or anna.street@naace.co.uk.
Many thanks to Andrea Carr at Rising Stars for providing the Kinect e-books for these events.
