Any views or ideas on this would be appreciated ... check out the Conservative Party, Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats policy documents for enlightenment.
Cast some light on things for me ....
"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things ..." and I hope that you had your say so let's hear it for ICT as it enters the 'core' .
Today I noticed on the National Curriculum site that there was reference toThe New Primary Curriculum (it didn’t say for England but I guessed that it was as I was on the NC site!) So I took a look …. and , well, there it was - online for all to see. And it does look clean and sharp (the site) and makes good use of a variety of display technologies.
This is what they say about the new curriculum: A school’s curriculum should help its children become the very best they can be. Following an independent review, a new curriculum has been developed to prepare our children for the opportunities and challenges of life in the 21st century. The primary curriculum has been redesigned. The new curriculum includes: curriculum aims; essentials for learning and life; six areas of learning; religious education. The curriculum introduces a statutory requirement for languages at key stage 2 and meets statutory requirements for inclusion (Including all learners) and health and safety. The new curriculum becomes statutory in 2011.
Many schools have already started down this pathway, changing their way of working to encompass the six areas of learning as laid out by Jim Rose. From my ICT perspective I am interested in how schools will view ’ICT capability‘ and its subset ‘ICT across the curriculum‘ and how the ‘essentials for learning and life’ perhaps umbrella the ‘areas of learning’.
Early days for me yet on coming to terms with what I hope will be a big step forward in opening up primary education to more creative thinking and really creative teaching.
PS
Every year the The New Media CoNsorTiuM and the eduCause Learning initiative produce a qualitative research report that identifies and itemises the emerging technologies that are, in their researched view, likely to have a considerable impact on teaching and learning or creative enquiry within the next five years. The Horizon Report for 2010 is now available. Though largely US based the report is indicative of the exponential rise of technologies and their potential influence on the way we leach and learn.
There are listed six technologies to watch. On the near horizon that is with one year we will expect to see the rise of mobile computing and also that ofopen content. The second horizon adoption front, set at two to three years will see the establishment of electronic books and the use of simple augmented reality. The third, far term horizon, set at four to five years, will see the development of gesture -based computing and visual data analysis.
The report contains details of the implications of each of these technologies and the way that they have the potential to advance and effect teaching and learning opportunities.
I am interested in referring back to last year’s Horizon Report and assume that the second and far horizons indicated there are still on everyone’s radar. That is ‘geo everything‘, ‘the personal web‘ in the second adoption horizon and ’semantic awareness applications‘ and ‘smart objects’ in the far horizon. The near horizon technologies from 2009 of ‘mobiles‘ and ‘cloud computing‘ are now with us and do have an overlap with this current year.
If you care to delve back as far as the report for 2008 you will find such things as: ‘grassroots video’, collaborative web’, ‘mobile broadband’, ‘ collective intelligence’ and ’social operating systems’. It is not difficult to put names to each of these - things that we now take almost for granted.
So what of 2011?
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