Teachers are wary about using IT in the classroom
27th September, 2005
Despite the government’s £1 billion commitment to increase the use of information technology in schools, few teachers make full use of computers in the classroom, according to ESRC-funded research. The findings of the four-year project at the University of Bristol confirm recent reports by Ofsted and OECD, which found the use of ICT in schools was ‘sporadic’ and ‘disappointing’ in the UK and overseas.
Source: http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2005/794
Children and Young People's Home Use of ICT for Educational Purposes
August, 2005
Source: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/research/data/uploadfiles/RB672.pdf
The Next Phase in the Specialist Revolution - Clarke
25th November, 2004
Education and Skills Secretary Charles Clarke today set out his vision for a further revolution in the specialist schools programme that will see specialist schools working together in local networks to raise standards across the system.
A new report published today from the Institute of Education at Warwick University examines the qualitative effects of specialisation. The report, A Study of the Specialist Schools Programme, is an evidence based study that shows that specialist school status has a strong reinforcing and positive effect on a school’s ethos, is a powerful level for school improvement associated with rising academic performance and can impact positively across the school.
Source: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/pns/DisplayPN.cgi?pn_id=2004_0203
CoSN profiles 'must-have' technologies
By Corey Murray, Assistant Editor, eSchool News
4th November, 2004
Datacasting, radio frequency identification (RFID) chips, student web logs (blogs), and intelligent essay graders are among a dozen technologies likely to emerge as must-have solutions in the nation's schools, according to a report unveiled Nov. 3 by the Washington, D.C.-based Consortium for School Networking (CoSN).
The third in a series of CoSN-sponsored reports dedicated to emerging technologies, "Hot Technologies for K-12 Schools" examines the usefulness of such heretofore little-known technologies in schools and begins to explore how such innovations might be used to transform learning in the 21st century.
To develop the guide, CoSN's Emerging Technologies Committee (ETC) initially identified five key educational issues schools are facing today--the instructional process, assessment and evaluation, diverse learning styles, the building of communities, and improving the efficiency of school administration.
Source http://www.eschoolnews.com/
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