Innovation Projects
A selection of summaries and links to the innovation project posts that DigiLit Leicester shared on their blog in March, 2014.
Flipped Classroom: Final Reflections
With his innovation funding, Mark Ostler, Faculty Lead for Humanities at St Paul’s Catholic School, has been investigating the flipped classroom approach. As part of the approach, videos and resources are shared with students as homework for them to review prior to lessons, class time is then used for discussion and enquiry based tasks. Mark carried out his trial during one unit of work, focusing on globalisation, collecting feedback from students and parents as well as his own reflections. Mark’s project is now complete, and you can view all of his blog posts below:
Flipped Classroom
A Flipping Update
Final Reflections
iPad Orchestra
Ellen Croft, Creative Curriculum Lead at Ash Field Academy, is leading on a school award project which focuses on the use of musical apps and light systems to enable students with special educational needs to create a piece of music. The school have worked with creative practitioners in order to design a scheme of work which culminated in a school performance of the piece developed by the students. Below is a summary of the school performance:
iPad Orchestra: an innovation project
Improving Digital Literacy at Babington Community College
Having trialled iPads as part of a previous innovation project, Babington are now turning their investigations towards web-based services and tools in order to support a cross-platform approach. Martin Corbishley, the school's Computing Subject Leader, aims to raise awareness of the services available through the delivery of a set of 11 workshops for school staff. These workshops have covered a range of topics, including: online collaboration tools, using wikis in the classroom and creating online communities. Resources created will be shared openly, and the course wiki can be accessed fromhttp://babingtondigitalliteracy.pbworks.com.
Improving Digital Literacy at Babington Community College
Making Learning LAST
Alex Vann, the school’s Assistant Headteacher, is leading a school award project which will be using classroom observation technology to deliver three strands of activity: supporting self and peer observation and reflection for NQTs and Year 2 teachers, recording teaching materials for use within a flipped classroom approach and creating a bank of good practice resources, for example, starters, plenaries and experiments. You can read more about the school’s initial progress below:
Making learning LAST: an innovation project
Training Teachers in Mobile Learning
Since June of last year, Sir Jonathan North Community College have been working on a BSF ICT Innovation Project which aims to develop staff pedagogy in the delivery of content and resources to students in a familiar and accessible manner; enhancing teaching and learning through the innovative apps and working practices available, and developing teacher’s pedagogy around new digital technologies. Pat Thompson, Peter Guthrie and Andy Herickx, members of the project team, provide an update here:
Training Teachers in Mobile Learning
With his innovation funding, Mark Ostler, Faculty Lead for Humanities at St Paul’s Catholic School, has been investigating the flipped classroom approach. As part of the approach, videos and resources are shared with students as homework for them to review prior to lessons, class time is then used for discussion and enquiry based tasks. Mark carried out his trial during one unit of work, focusing on globalisation, collecting feedback from students and parents as well as his own reflections. Mark’s project is now complete, and you can view all of his blog posts below:
Flipped Classroom
A Flipping Update
Final Reflections
iPad Orchestra
Ellen Croft, Creative Curriculum Lead at Ash Field Academy, is leading on a school award project which focuses on the use of musical apps and light systems to enable students with special educational needs to create a piece of music. The school have worked with creative practitioners in order to design a scheme of work which culminated in a school performance of the piece developed by the students. Below is a summary of the school performance:
iPad Orchestra: an innovation project
Improving Digital Literacy at Babington Community College
Having trialled iPads as part of a previous innovation project, Babington are now turning their investigations towards web-based services and tools in order to support a cross-platform approach. Martin Corbishley, the school's Computing Subject Leader, aims to raise awareness of the services available through the delivery of a set of 11 workshops for school staff. These workshops have covered a range of topics, including: online collaboration tools, using wikis in the classroom and creating online communities. Resources created will be shared openly, and the course wiki can be accessed fromhttp://babingtondigitalliteracy.pbworks.com.
Improving Digital Literacy at Babington Community College
Making Learning LAST
Alex Vann, the school’s Assistant Headteacher, is leading a school award project which will be using classroom observation technology to deliver three strands of activity: supporting self and peer observation and reflection for NQTs and Year 2 teachers, recording teaching materials for use within a flipped classroom approach and creating a bank of good practice resources, for example, starters, plenaries and experiments. You can read more about the school’s initial progress below:
Making learning LAST: an innovation project
Training Teachers in Mobile Learning
Since June of last year, Sir Jonathan North Community College have been working on a BSF ICT Innovation Project which aims to develop staff pedagogy in the delivery of content and resources to students in a familiar and accessible manner; enhancing teaching and learning through the innovative apps and working practices available, and developing teacher’s pedagogy around new digital technologies. Pat Thompson, Peter Guthrie and Andy Herickx, members of the project team, provide an update here:
Training Teachers in Mobile Learning