Cape Primary School Digital Resources Quality Assurance Cynthia Pinner

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Cape Primary SchoolDigital ResourcesQuality
AssuranceCynthia Pinner
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Cape Primary School
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ICT Resources

• Interactive whiteboards
• Pupil workstations
• Computer suites
• Video conferencing
• Home-school loan PCs
• Learning Gateway
• Digital resources

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What do we want?

• One-stop resource shop

• Quality resources
• Child-centred
• Needs met
• User-friendly
• Value for money

• Autonomous assessment
• Set resource data
• Objective assessment against given resource
• Records data set

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DfES 2003,a The Value Chain for Digital
Learning Content in England Curriculum Online.
Needs Analyst
Commissioner
Producer
Publisher
Retailer
Fulfilment Agent
National Curriculum
Educator
Pupil
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Well do it our way!
Wider audience
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Quality Control Panel

• Objectives
• To drive innovation in creating digital learning
  resources from and for the needs of our pupils
• To promote digital learning through the school
  website and SESLP Learning Gateway
• To promote inclusion through the use of digital
  learning resources
• To foster collaboration between schools through
  the use of shared resources

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Identification of Needs against the following
criteria

• National Curriculum Programmes of Study
• Study Level and Year group targeting
• Specific learning objective learning outcome,
• Best current practice i.e. Excellence and
  Enjoyment
• Existing resources of quality appropriacy
• Subject leadership moderation

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Identification of Pupil Needs

• Differentiation requirements Normal
  Distribution against previous knowledge
• SEN requirements
• EAL requirements
• Composition appropriate to learning objective and
  outcome for specified end-users
• Adaptive navigation
• The ability to move through the learning
  object according to user needs.
• (Gallenson et al, 2002)

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Documentation

• Some instructions may be necessary
• Planning structure teacher
• Design / application notes teacher
• Defined user teacher/parent/pupil
• Instructions teacher/parent/pupil
• Suggestions for alternative use

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Cape Digital Resources

• Designed to meet teacher and pupil needs by
• Modelling concepts / processes
• Increasing resources e.g E-books fiction /
  non-fiction / reference
• Concept reinforcement / Skill drill
• Increasing experiences virtual experience of
  the world
• Stimulus e.g. picture slide shows
• Targeting learning styles
• Enabling SEN / EAL pupils
• Teacher time-saver resources Phonics assessment
  Early Years Profiles

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What Ive learnt from research

• Published educational software is generally about
  what curriculum needs to be taught
• Teacher authored resources deal with the more
  important issue of how the curriculum needs to be
  taught
• Teachers who author examine their own practice
  more closely