Next Practice in Resourcing Personalisation - Using technology to enhance learning

How can technology be used to embed a personalised approach to learning across our schools?

Schools and practitioners across the country are using new technologies in ways that are transforming traditional learning. Teachers are able to organise their work and to manage and use data about student performance in new ways. This can have a great impact on learning. The use of laptops, Internet and e-mail, interactive whiteboards and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), video-conferencing, wireless networks and Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) is becoming commonplace in our schools, enabling learners to develop new kinds of skills and to access a greater range of resources than ever before. In addition, new technologies are allowing students greater levels of choice in terms of how, when and where (and with whom) they progress with their work. Through new applications of ICT, students are accessing lesson plans and resources from home and working collaboratively with their peers on projects, with 'experts' from beyond their school, and with students from other parts of the globe. Schools are using ICT to experiment with new forms of assessment which allow students to be assessed in personalised ways, at times appropriate to their own development. ICT is also being used to give students a greater voice in the running of their schools.

Current Field Trials

Since Autumn 2006, we have been supporting a number of field trials to address this challenge.

Cornwallis School

De Ferrers Specialist Technology College

Invicta Grammar School

Schome-NAGTY

The Bridge Academy

Wildern School

Current Practice

We invited people to send in examples of current practice in this domain.

Using technology to enhance learning

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