Local Government Denmark A digital future for schools-how?

London Study Visit November 28th - 30th 2011 The aim of the visit We wish to learn from UK trends and strategies using ICT in Schools. We will be looking at eff ective ICT solutions which ideally can make short-cuts into the future. (”Can we save money-and yet follow the “right” digital trends...?)

The delegates Th e delegates (a total of 15) will be a mixture of policymakers from: LGDK, the Department of Education, representatives from Th e Teachers’ Union and from Th e Association of School Directors and Directors of Children and Culture in DK.

Th e group has a great interest in meeting up with local decision makers and politicians as well as having the chance to talk to heads, teachers and students at schools with good ICT practice and meeting distributors and companies with effi cient solutions.

Fee includes: Flight return Copenhagen- 2 nights at Strand Palace Hotel 372 Strand, London, WC2R 0JJ +44 (0)20 7379 4737 http://www.strandpalacehotel.co.uk/

Breakfast included - All local transport - Lunch all days - Danish guide.

2 Points for discussion: • Digitised learning in Primary and Secondary. • Authentic, positive experiences gained from implementing and developing digital learning in primary/secondary • Future initiatives/challenges by digital learning seen from leadership’s, tea- chers’, students’ and parents’ perspective.

Th e in-set strategy for Danish schools is concerning the following: • Infrastructure • Iimplementing digital learning-resources • New, innovative ways of learning • Digital communication and sharing of knowledge.

Moreover LGDK is discussing the following issues with a number of organisations: • Didactic design in tuition/teaching and learning • How do pupils learn via digitalisation? • Which impact will digitalisation have on teachers´ planning, teaching and assessment? • Revising objectives for teaching and learning via ICT? • How do teachers, students and parents work towards the objectives? Training? • Overriding long-term outcomes and targets for digital learning? • How will students themselves be able to design their own learning? • How can students, teachers and parents follow the progression digitally? • When’s it drilling and when’s it new learning? Which ways to opt for the best in-service training and the training of teachers? • How do digital resources look like at their best? And how do we move on from e-books? Are apps the way forward?

3 Monday, November 28

7.15am: Departure CPH British Airways BA8466 8.10am: Arrival London City Airport 8.30am: Departure in minibus to Strand Palace Hotel

11.00am - 3.30pm: The digital thread in the SEN classroom of the future

The Michael Tippett School Heron Road London SE24 0HZ

Th e Michael Tippett School was both the fi rst Building Schools for the Fu- ture (BSF) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_Schools_for_the_Fu- ture school in London and the fi rst Special Education Needs (SEN) School to be built under the BSF programme.

Th e project recently won the PfS Grand Prix award at the Excellence in BSF Awards 2008, being named as the most innovative and transformational BSF project so far. Designed by London Eye architects, Marks Barfi eld, and built by Apollo Education, it will provide 80 pu- pil places.

We’ll be having a walk round the school, talking to students and staff . During our stay we’re very fortunate to have set up a meeting with two important partners in developing creative and innovative ap- proaches to education:

4 1. RM Education http://www.rmeducation.com/home/ RM Education is a global company, fo- cusing on enabling teachers to teach and learners to learn by providing innova- tive products from classroom resources, through school technologies to systems for marking exams and delivering school performance data. Contact person: Mrs. Emma Hitchman, Senior Project Co-ordinator.

2. Futurelab http://www.lkl.ac.uk/cms/ Futurelab is an independent not-for-pro- fi t organisation committed to developing creative and innovative approaches to education, teaching and learning. Speaker: Stephen Breslin, Futurelab’s Chief Executive

5 4.30pm - 5.00pm: London Knowledge Lab 23-29 Emerald Street London WC1N 3QS Director Professor Richard Noss and Mr James O’Toole, Manager of Technology Enhanced Learning Research Programme welcomes us to the Centre.

5.00pm - 7.00pm: Seminar, Location: LKL Auditorium Personal technology - the opportunity for one-to-one in class and at home James Philip Knight, Baron Knight of Weymouth, education consultant and former schools minister.

Lord Knight held a number of educational ministerial positions between 2006 and 2010 and is a keen advocate of the use of technology to enhance education. Full bio on Wikipedia Refreshments will be provided from 5pm, the talk will start at 5.30pm.

8.00pm: Dinner at a restaurant near the hotel.

6 Tuesday, November 29

8.00am: Meet in the Hotel´s Foyer- departure 8.12am: Departure Embankment St. 8.49am: Arrival at Kidbrooke st.

9.15am - 12.45pm: When the digital thread becomes creative and innovative at a Soren Hawes, assistant headteacher with responsibility for ICT and Creative Learning. Jon Nicholls, Arts College Manager.

Thomas Tallis Secondary School, 154 Kidbrooke Park Rd London SE3 9PX

A new school seeking to use 21st century technology Th omas Tallis is based in an area of London undergoing signifi cant redevelop- ment. Th e local housing estate, like the old part of the school, is being demo- lished and replaced with new buildings. Th e school is an Arts College and a School of Creativity and has always had the support of the local community.

7 • Why are IPads and Ipods chosen, and how are they used? • What are the potential benefi ts and uses of iPods and iPads? • How can new technologies be seen as an essential tool for learning? • How can teachers share the ambition to use new technologies and model good learning by acquiring skills for themselves?

Th e school will have several exciting new specialist spaces including a Dojo hall, broadcast studio, performance spaces and recital rooms. Th e school was designed to support a creative, contemporary and progressive approach to learning.

Th e visit will include a tour of the school.

See and read about the school at their website.

1.45pm Sandwich lunch, tea/coff ee at the Strand Palace Hotel (Th e Drake Suite)

2.00pm - 2.25pm: Th e UK ICT context - why the UK is where it is now in ICT in Schools Doug Brown, Former Head of ICT in Schools at Education Department, now director at STEP-A International Ltd which provides high level strategic policy and delivery advice in the deployment of technology in education. Learn more here: http://www.step-a.org/

2.25pm - 2.55pm: ICT in UK schools current position - an industry perspective Dominic Savage, the director general at BESA.

8 BESA is a trade association. Trade associations are organisations which represent a particular industry, but do not supply products themselves. Th ey promote and provide information about their member companies and are a good source of information and advice about their respective industries. BESA has over 300 members which include manufacturers and distributors of equipment, materi- als, books, consumables, furniture, technology, ICT hardware and digital con- tent - all to the education market. See: http://www.besa.org.uk

2.55pm - 3.20pm: Initiatives in initial teacher training: Teaching with and about ICT Mike Harrison. Mike is head of Technology in Learning and Teaching (TiLT) at the Training and Development Agency for schools (TDA) a government agency responsible for initial teacher training (ITT) in (www.tda.gov.uk). He currently leads projects in e-safety, computing in schools in ITT training, music technology and ICT.

3.20pm - 3.35pm: questions to all presenters.

3.40pm leave for Westminster and Education Department by foot.

4.00pm - 5.00pm: Young people, schools and technology-supported learning - what´s the UK strategy for the future? Vanessa Pittard, Head of Technology Policy Unit at the Department for Education of UK.

Venue: Department for Education of UK

Westminster 6.00pm - 7.00pm: Assessment

8.00pm: Dinner at a restaurant near the hotel.

9 Wednesday, November 30

7.20am: Departure from the hotel by minibus 9.00am - 10.30am: The digital thread in a Th e Sandridge School, St. Albans.

Sandridge school is one of the fi rst schools in Hertfordshire to implement the wide- spread use of iPads, which are used by children from Foundation Stage (aged 4/5) up to Year 6 (aged 10/11.) We will have an opportunity to observe the educational use of iPads in the classroom and talk to the children and teachers that use them. Contact: Chris Carter, eDevelopments Adviser

10.30am - 11.00am: By coach to Hertfordshire County Council Robertson House Six Hills Way Stevenage

11.00am - 1.00pm: The digital thread in a Local Authority Hertfordshire County Council • How does a major county implement ICT in schools • ICT-training? • Tools/choice of platforms and devices...etc.

10 Working-lunch with Chris Carter: eDevelopments Adviser, Carole Bennett: Senior ICT Adviser. Janine Bryant: Head of School IT Systems Support.

We will have an opportunity to visit the headquarters of the school impro- vement services in this large local authority, which has over 500 schools. We will meet with some of the staff responsible for the strategic planning and support of ICT across the county, who will be happy to answer our questi- ons and share with us their experiences.

1.00pm - 2.30pm: By coach

2.30pm - 4.30pm: How to establish an effective digital infrastructure? Cisco Briefi ng Center, Bedfont Lakes, Feltham. http://www.cisco.com/ web/about/ac156/bedfontlakes.html

We´ll meet experts at the centre talking about and presenting ’Next Ge- neration Learning solutions’ to us. Nick Reeves, Cisco UK and Tina Kempf Lindholm, Cisco Denmark.

4.15pm - 5.00pm: Final assesment of the ”digital highlights of the day” -in the coach.

6.30pm: Departure Heathrow BA 0822 9.35pm: Arrival Copenhagen Kastrup

11 Participants Organisation Pernille Salamon Education Department Jakob Birklund Andersen Education Department Evy Stokholm Teachers’s National Union Charlotte Rømer Engel Teachers’s National Union Dorte Lange Teachers’s National Union Eik Møller Directors of Children & Culture Claus Hjortdal School Principals´ Association Anders Balle School Principals´ Association Dorthe Møller KL (LGDK) Lis Sandberg KL (LGDK)

Kjeld Romer Larsen KL (LGDK) Søren Christiansen KL (LGDK) Anne-Marie Schæff er Tourguide Niels Bjørn Ilsøe Advisor