Staff Awareness

At the time of writing (November 2009) it feels as though the implementation of the platform across the currciulum in school has 'run out of steam'.

In a staff survey held in September, when asked which of the following was the greatest barrier to platform use :

- Lack of technical skills-teachers

- Little understanding of the pedagogy of platforms

- Lack of technical skills-students/staff

- Lack of classroom access

37 % felt that an understanding of the pedagogy of platforms was essential to using them properly; 32% said lack of classroom access; with an equal split between staff and student skills.

A staff Blog has been set up to encourage staff to contribute to a discussion about the use of the platform.

The Blog will run through November and then be extended to our junior school partners.

The Blog can be found at http://tideway.blogspot.com/

A termly Technology Bulletin has also been published for staff at Tideway and in our local junior schools. CLICK HERE to download the first edition (PDF format).

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. Frank Lloyd Wright