school tech: listening to and acting on learner voice (2015)
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School Tech: listening to & acting on learner voice
@josiefraser
3 JUNE 2015
Building Schools for the Future
• £340 million capital build programme• 23 secondary school sites in Leicester City -
including Secondary Behavioural Support Service, SEN, Children’s Hospital School
• Approximately 2,000 staff supporting 20,000 learners
The role of technology
Community based educational transformation, supported through strategic investment:
•Design and implementation•Operations•Staff and community development
“Our research indicated disappointedly low expectations of staff competency with the digital. This supports recommendations…that teaching staff in particular need to be supported in developing their digital practices. This has to go beyond the functional skills approach of the schools sector by providing professional development opportunities around the digital and teaching practice and not simply training around specific software or hardware.”
Incoming expectations of the digital environment formed at school David White and Joanna Wild (2014) JISC
Learner Voice in Leicester City: Learning Technology Priorities
• Year long initiative reporting 2012 • 3 Youth Engagement Officers• 400+ 11-19 year olds • 2-4 workshops per school• Focus groups, interviews, game play,
multimedia activities
Learners priorities: The school environment
1. More indoor social space2. Better designed library/Learning
Resource Centre spaces3. Comfortable Chairs4. Better design – esp. colour5. Allotments6. Sustainability features7. Nicer Toilets
8. Improved Canteen9. Flexible learning spaces10. Variety in teaching methods11. More student input12. More flexible use of technology13. Choice and variety of subjects
Learners priorities: Technology
1. Faster computers2. More creative use by staff3. Student led use of technology4. Internet access – schools, city centre,
local communities5. Home access
6. Collaboration across schools & countries7. Access to local & national decision makers via social media8. Young people only spaces in city centre9. Teachers who can support with social tech10. A say in school filtering and blocking policies
Characterising the tech priorities
• Flexibility and autonomy • Not device, service or software specific• Creativity & social engagement• Equality and empowerment• Staff and student digital literacy
JISC Digital Student FE challenges• A robust, flexible digital environment• A relevant digital curriculum• Empower students to develop their digital environment• An inclusive digital student experience• Coherent Bring Your Own policies• Staff and student digital literacies• Strategic approach to developing the student digital
experienceHow are you enhancing your FE students’ digital experience? Sarah Knight (2015) JISC
Meeting learners needs:1. Moving from centralised provision to flexible access
• Improving infrastructure & wireless connectivity
• Into the cloud – services and storage• 1:1/BYOD
Meeting learners needs:2. Supporting digital literacy
Technical skills + critical thinking + social engagement = digital literacy
Impact
• Significant increased focus on school staff digital literacy – individual, departmental & leadership level
• High impact innovation projects • Knowledge transfer & collaboration• Increased individual & strategic use of social
media & public (rather than open) practice
thank you!@josiefraser
School Tech: listening to & acting on learner voice (2015) by Josie Fraser is licensed under a CC BY 4.0
Title photo credit: Sharing Music by Ed Yourdon shared under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
ReferencesDigiLit Leicester: 2014 Survey Results Lucy Atkins, Josie Fraser & Richard Hall (2014) Leicester City Council Students' experiences and expectations of the digital environment Helen Beetham and David White (2014) JISC Learner Voice in Leicester City: Learning Technology Priorities Josie Fraser and Grace Sykes (2012) Leicester City Council How are you enhancing your FE students’ digital experience? Sarah Knight (2015) JISC Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report (2014) OfcomIncoming expectations of the digital environment formed at school David White and Joanna Wild (2014) JISC