City Learning Centres supporting BSF and Educational Transformation - Stephen Holland (sholland@sgfl.org.uk)

Some pictures from Sandon Business and Enterprise School - Stoke-on-Trent's first BSF new build - opened Feb 08

 

CLCs contributing to BSF within Stoke-on-Trent

  1. Infuence of CLC buildings including internal layout and design / ways of working / organisational cultures all provide a testbed for BSF unconstrained by the Local Authority.
  2. Massive contribution to BSF in relation to on-going special projects, special events, equipment loans, delivery of training, in-school support with technology-enriched learning, early adoption and innovation.
  3. Facilitation of technical support.
  4. Widening horizons through locally hosted high profile conferences.
  5. Very strong and trusted relationships with schools.
  6. The work of other CLCs supporting BSF in Stoke - e.g. Dr. Kevin Parmer's work on successful learning platform implementation.
  7. Joint LA/CLC Learning Platform training team in Stoke.

Some useful documentation, first one arising from analysing the key messages from the leading figures delivering at our national conferences.

  Dimensions of educational transformation - draft benchmarking tool

  Learning platform - suggested new staff roles

 

Some current issues

VLE content which can support the development of higher order thinking

 
Alan November on the culture of learning (short wmv video)   Stephen Heppell (web link to conference archive including wmv video: go 28 mins in)
Sue Barlow on the benefits of teacher websites (wmv video) and a link to her website Stephen Heppell on collaborative co-operative learning (wmv video: 33 mins in)
What does ICT-rich pedagogy look like? European Education Partnership (web link) Alan November on digital literacy (web link)