Let's Celebrate Conference
EdTech Hubs panel discussion at the LGfL Let's Celebrate Conference - 1st July 2022
EdTech Hubs Panel discussion
An expert panel discussed where next for EdTech and what schools perhaps could stop doing to advance their progress with the successful adoption of EdTech in Schools.
Chaired by Ty Goddard from the EdTech Uk, the panel was made up of:
Marie Beale, Deputy Headteacher - Whitefield Primary School
Paul Edge, Deputy Headteacher - Ribblesdale School
Stephen Schwartz, EdTech Lead - Inspire Partnership
Osi Ejiofor, Education Consultant
Watch edited clips from the whole presentation below
EdTech Hubs Panel discussion - Introduction
"We want to give you useful nuggents of advice for you to take back to your schools'
Ty Goddard - EdTech Uk - Chair of the panel discussion
EdTech Hubs Panel discussion - Whitefield School Introduction
'Technology fundamentally allows us to communicate across school as staff. It allows us to manage workloads so that staff can really think about engagement of children. It allows us to communicate and involve parents who are anxious and not confident about school. And it allows us to enable children to overcome their barriers and to be be engaged in learning. For us, ed tech equals inclusion'
Marie Beale, Deputy Headteacher - Whitefield Primary School
Ribblesdale School - Introduction
'What works in one school is n't necessarily going to work exactly the same way in another. So it's making sure that at any point in time a school feels confident in moving forward with EdTech'
Paul Edge, Ribblesdale School, Clitheroe
How to develop EdTech in schools, a MAT perspective on the role of EdTech School Introduction
'Find trusted partners, collaborate and steal ideas and occasionally give a few back, but mainly borrow, steal, implement, tweak, because we can't think of everything in isolation.
Stephen Schwartz, EdTech Lead - Inspire Partnership
What next for EdTech in your school?
'Teachers are a very fickle beast, aren't they? And they tend to listen to the teachers and nobody else. So I think that network is really going to enhance that conversation and what goes on. And it is really important, as you mentioned earlier, about there is that regression going on and we need for young people to make some of this good Practise we've seen stick and then allow people to move on. Tech is another teaching and learning tool. That's what it is.'
Paul Edge, Ribblesdale School, Clitheroe
What next for EdTech in your School?
'Teachers are a very fickle beast, aren't they? And they tend to listen to the teachers and nobody else. So I think that network is really going to enhance that conversation and what goes on. And it is really important, as you mentioned earlier, about there is that regression going on and we need for young people to make some of this good Practise we've seen stick and then allow people to move on. Tech is another teaching and learning tool. That's what it is.'
Paul Edge, Ribblesdale School, Clitheroe
What should schools no longer be doing?
'A lot of our young people probably are never going to go into an office and interact face to face. So the line between work and home is very blurred. He's very blurred for them as it is. So we have a duty to give them the skills to self regulate in terms of the use of tech. So when to use tech and also when to not use tech and switch off and walk away. And I think that's going to become a bigger challenge for young people who have grown up with the device in the left or the right hand.
Paul Edge, Ribblesdale School, Clitheroe
How will you be using edTech in the next 5 years?
I think that technology will have to become the inclusive tool to support all learners to access the curriculum'
Marie Beale, Deputy Headteacher - Whitefield Primary School