Edtech Week 2020

11:00 - 11:45: Developing Digital - Building Sustainable Strategies (EdTech Week Live Panel)

Moderated by Ty Goddard, Education Foundation and Edtech Demo Programme

Panel members include:

• Paul Haigh, King Ecgbert School, Sheffield

• Neill Oldham, Headteacher High Furlong School, Blackpool

• Emma Darcy, Director of Technology for Learning at Chiltern Learning Trust.

16:00 - 16:45: Vision Teaching and Learning (EdTech Week Twilight Tea and Chat)

Moderated by Laura Smith, LGfL and Regional Lead

In this afternoon session we will be discussing:

• Best quality teaching and learning, working remotely, engaging with parents in lockdown

• Wider aspects of education to include attendance, anti-bullying online -safety, safeguarding and supporting parental engagement) and extracurricular activities.

• Teacher workload: How to manage hybrid classrooms without double lesson planning (some in and some out of class etc.), and ways to draw on resource banks

Panel members include:

• Luke Ravenscroft, St Albans Catholic Primary School and Bishop Challoner Catholic College

• Sarah Morgan, Danesfield School

09:30 - 10:00 Welcome and round-up of Edtech Week

10:00 - 11:00: Darlington College, Oldham Sixth Form college, The Hathershaw College

1. Wayne Hall, Darlington College

2. Gemma Curto, Oldham Sixth Form

This session aims to explore how to embrace a healthy, research-based educational technology with our EdTech system. EdTech has overwhelmed many schools in the world with the flash and promise. However, it is also creating levels of anxiety that inhibit students’ abilities to sustain attention, to read for an extended time, to remember, it leads, in some cases, to lowered test scores and diminished critical thinking and social skills. While hyper-stimulating media pervades young peoples’ worlds I propose a framework that encourages schools to be selective, to embrace the transformative tech, such as video or website creation, and to set limits to the amount of tech and screen time the students are exposed to, while also supporting face-to-face collaboration. The best performing courses focus on pedagogical methods rather than in digital devices.

3. Jennifer Benzer, Oldham Sixth Form

Online teaching should be about staying focused on what we know about good teaching and working creatively to transfer these components to an online setting. It is about avoiding falling into the trap that online teaching is about finding the latest gimmick and instead being led by the pedagogy: how is this online tool going to help me teach and my students learn in a meaningful way? The online context presents both constraints and advantages in our quest to teach well. Online teaching is about navigating these benefits and difficulties in such a way that never loses sight of what we know about how to teach our subjects effectively.

4. Josephine Webster, The Hathershaw College

Practical Tasks are at the core of many subjects making up a large proportion of content for the likes of Design and Technology, Art and PE. As a Secondary Design and Technology teacher, I have personally developed my own style of online teaching to better engage my students whilst helping them progress. Within this session I will discuss my successes (and failures) of navigating online learning from a practical, creative subjects perspective.

11:00 - 12:00: Oldham Sixth Form College, The Manchester College, Pheasey Park Farm Primary School, Lea Forest Primary Academy

5. Terri Kudrath-Charnal, Oldham Sixth Form College

6. Keeping it Simple - John Sibbald, The Manchester College

7. Sarah Morgan and Pete Godwin, Pheasey Park Farm Primary School

8. How we approached virtual learning at Lea Forest - John Croxon, Lea Forest Primary Academy

12:00 - 13:00: Lunchbreak - Edtech Think Tank, hosted by Ty Goddard

13:00 - 14:00: Kibworth C of E Primary, Elizabeth Woodville Primary School

9. Nathan Thirby, Kibworth C of E Primary

10. Tim Dolan, Beauchamp College

11. Using non-screen based lessons to overcome barriers and increase engagement - Danielle Jarman, Elizabeth Woodville Primary School

An illustration of our creative, non screen based lesson ideas for overcoming some barriers and encouraging engagement.

12. Contingency Planning for Remote Learning - How to ensure a continuity of learning - James Crowhurst and Sarah Crowhurst, Elizabeth Woodville Primary School

A three phase plan / roadmap to help implement your remote learning / continuity plan

14:00 - 15:00: Reach Academy Feltham, Wildern MAT, Denbigh High School with Challney High School for Girls

13. CPD that sets teachers up to deliver great remote education - Claire Couves, Reach Academy Feltham

14. How to build teacher confidence, resilience and innovation with Edtech - Kate Broadribb, Wildern MAT

15. Blended learning, Independent Learning Escape Rooms & Encouraging reading through extra-curricular & cross curricular activities - Raheela Saleem, Nicola Harlock and Fatima Maniar, Denbigh High School with Challney High School for Girls

15:00 - 15:45: Afternoon tea - Edtech Think Tank, hosted by Ty Goddard

15:45 - 16:30: Mount Hawke Academy, National Star College, Exeter College

16. Giles Hill, Mount Hawke Academy

17. Neil Beck, National Star

18. FLIP Week - Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs of remote learning - Anthony Martin, Exeter College

Amidst half term and the looming lockdown 2.0, Exeter College flipped their lesson delivery from classroom based to a fully remote learning, building on the discoveries and feedback of the full lockdown earlier in the year. This week long trial set out to test our approaches, build teacher confidence, expose potential challenges, and ultimately, to learn. Join Anthony Martin as we explore some of those lessons learned from the Exeter College FLIP week