Minutes: Digital Hub Meeting Round 2: February 2013: KGS Item & Lead Innovations Framework: Update on digital

l elements - SR Notes OOS: gifted and talented program BYOD implementation. Still hampered by wireless infrastructure issue. KGS: eBooks initiative, starting in April students will only have digital copies of text books no paper textbooks being purchased CIS: Augmentation of Digital literacy after school courses. CPD planned for new ideas for course content. TMS: Author expert used to develop exams online using the laptop trollies in senior rooms so students can sit exams online Online Environment: Platform review update AN Andrew shared feedback from his current round of interviews: Visit Andrews blog to see responses and feedback from each school. Points to Action, Persons Responsible & Timescale

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Student Groups are pretty much the same wherever you go they all want the same things Students want more integration, Digital creation & move away from Office/productivity tools; Assessment data online and SHARED WITH PARENTS;

Access to teachers and peers online; High quality resources

Other interesting points about students:

Internet access largely unmonitored at home; Very prepared for BYOD in fact they demand it Concerned about teacher readiness Older students are not that supportive of GLG young students are strongest supporters, but it declines further up schools tipping point seems to be Y9 Parent Groups are also fairly uniform: Want more data on their children the occasional report will no longer do Want advice on how to engage effectively from a digital perspective Want the ability to know what is going on in the classroom this does not mean CCTV, but more along the lines of tracked syllabi, updates, videos explaining pedagogy used in class Be able to share good ideas with each other Parents in general are pro BYOD the most positive groups have been at the lower end of the market. Premium parents are positive, but feel that the cost

needs to be justified. Teacher groups are similar: resourcing - GEMS wide repository of teacher created content; Access to student data across the board be able to use systems diagnostically Auto-assessment where possible. Online systems to assess where this is not possible Social media style system akin to Facebook to aid in familiarity Teachers have PD & BYOD concerns.
Content: Schools recommendations? - PR Phil has been working on trials of espresso in some schools. Will be getting feedback soon. Trying to do some collective bargaining with suppliers. Schools have a look at budgets and subscriptions etc and let him know of anything you are wanting that he may not know about. He will make contact with suppliers for collective deals. Its much more cost effective. Once decisions are made about purchasing and pricing. Schools will still be able to decide whether or not they want to participate in the collective purchase.

Professional Development: Certification options: LEC, MOOCs - SR Schools PD needs - SR

PD options needed for developing digital pedagogy not training on applications. Several options for free courses for teachers. Coursera.org has a range of courses a, all free but large numbers of online participants. Works on a given time frame.

https://www.coursera.org/#cour ses?category=14

Intel - teach elements offer free , self paced professional development in modules for teachers. Suggested start for teachers who know little about blended learning would be Designing blended learning module and collaboration in the digital classroom The syllabus can be downloaded http://www.intel.com/content/w so you can see the content of each course. Please let ww/us/en/education/k12/teachSheryl Know if your staff take these courses. Feedback elements.html would be very useful to us all. Leading edge Certification Blended and online teacher This is an opportunity to gain external certification. Through an 8 week course with a robust curriculum in digital Pedagogy.Sheryl has been talking to the providers and they are based in the US and deliver this 8 week course internationally. Please look through the course content and let Sheryl know if you would be interested in participating in this course, which you could then roll out to others in your school. There is a focus on the use of collaborative tools and google Apps in this course Google Apps: There is an opportunity for some training in Google apps at the google middle east summit in March . There is not a lot of time left to register so you will need to be quick. Some of our schools are sending groups of teachers. Its a worthwhile opportunity if you can make the time.

http://leadingedgecertification.o rg/page/online-teacher

https://sites.google.co m/a/gafesummit.com/uae/ registration

Standards: Digital Standards - SR

A copy of digital standards were given out to hub leaders and emailed to principals. With the view to schools developing a digital strategic plan reflecting the standards. Hub leaders can you do a self assessment of where you think you are at with the standards.You may need to sit and do this with senior management to complete this. Please let Sheryl know if you need a soft copy of this so you can complete it this way. Return it to Sheryl when complete and she will pass it on to Alan Marshall. Best examples submitted to date were shared. They can be viewed by others on the gemslg site. Please submit your example if you have not already done so. Maker day WIS are organizing this to be held at DSO registrations close next week. Phil has already emailed you the details. Website link and registration form links are included. It is vital that your role as hub leader informs you of all digital learning aspects in your school. We rely on you to be able to communicate with us so we can better support you but you need to be informed to do this. For the next meeting we will be asking the host school to present a brief overview of blended learning / flipped learning / or BYOD strategies in their school. Student survey has been closed and about 4,000 student participated. Because of the sheer numbers its taking a while to extract the data. At first we will do an analysis of all students . Once this is complete we will filter out the responses school by school and get the data graphed for those schools that participated. http://gemslg.com/main/bp/best _practice

Curriculum, Teaching and Learning: Best practice examples from site Interactive Whiteboard Options & trials: Single/multi LCD Each hub host to present where they are in terms of digital strategy, inc BLearning - AN

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Strategy/Procedural Tasks: Student Survey: SR Digital Strategy - see above + Online Audit AN

To gain an overview of where we are all at across the network. We will be auditing various aspects of our digital learning so we can get a network wide picture of where we are at. Please complete this online audit with help from your SLT . This audit is about current and proposed BYOD status in our schools. If you please have this audit completed by March 15th or else let Sheryl know if there is a problem.

http://www.gemslg.com/m ain/surveys/byodschools teachers.html