Friday 19 October 2007

Information and Communications Technology in UK schools -– characteristics of success


Practical ICT SE01This Special Edition of Practical ICT is based on the Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education) report called “The Annual Report of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills 2006-07, published on 17 October 2007.

The original report summarises the outcomes of around 36,000 routine
inspections and regulatory visits of services for children and learners.
What I have done is to distil what the report says about Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) – “educational technology” – and draw some conclusions about what it means for leaders and managers of ICT in schools, even those not working in England or Wales.

In so doing I have reduced the amount of reading required from 124 pages to 6! I have set out the report into 8 areas of interest, with a number of key messages (implications) for each one.

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