On Safer Internet Day 2018 the Sarah Bonnell
School Digital Leaders spent the day delivering their online safety workshops for Year 7 students and their efforts were recognised by visiting OFSTED inspectors who mentioned the Digital Leaders in the school's OFSTED report:
The Stanburn Primary
School Digital Leaders tell us about their time at the Safer Internet Day event in London.
Anson Primary
School Digital Leaders have created a short film about cyber-bullying just in time for Safer Internet Day!
Not exact matches
In an age of
digital technology and feedback, the Association of
School and College
Leaders risks looking as if it might have something to hide when it criticises Ofsted's new policy of allowing parents to rate
schools in online surveys.
I often share
digital best practices at national and regional conferences such as AAPC, Art of Political Campaigning, CampaignTech, Campaigns & Marketing Summit, NTC, Netroots Nation, Organizing 2.0, the Reed Awards, and RootsCamp, webinars for Progressive Majority, Salsa Labs and others, and trainings in - person for small groups around the country including for Wellstone's Advanced Campaign Management
School, Amalgamated Transit Union, Camp Wellstone, Center for Progressive Leadership, Clean Air Task Force, Democracy for America, HRC, New
Leaders Council and New Organizing Institute.
Mount Vernon, NY — Westchester County Legislators Lyndon Williams (D - Mount Vernon) and Ken Jenkins (D - Yonkers) joined a number of other elected officials along with community
leaders at a rally Wednesday, October 29th to announce their support of the «Smart
Schools Bond Act of 2014,» to fight «
digital divide.»
Digital Promise, a Washington, D.C. — based technology organization, runs a national network of tech - savvy
leaders known as The League of Innovative
Schools, for example.
In order to support
school leaders and teachers to become their most effective at using
digital technologies with new pedagogies, it is vital that a district support the
digital transformation through varied building - level and district - level professional learning opportunities.
Caroline Wright, BESA director said, «British teachers are world -
leaders in the use of educational - technology in the classroom so it is of great concern that pupils are being denied access to innovative and effective
digital learning because of poor internet connectivity in more than half of the UK's
schools.
Discovery Education, which provides
digital content to half of U.S. classrooms, is now helping school leaders integrate innovative technology practices in their schools through a program called Digital Leader
digital content to half of U.S. classrooms, is now helping
school leaders integrate innovative technology practices in their
schools through a program called
Digital Leader
Digital Leader Corps.
The
Digital Technologies Hub (DT Hub) is an online repository of resources for teachers, students,
school leaders, and parents focused on the
Digital Technologies curriculum.
In the
school consultations and leadership workshops I have conducted, I have yet to encounter a teacher or
school leader who doesn't believe that in time every
school will normalise the use of the
digital.
There are many fantastic resources and professional development programs available to help teachers and
school leaders get started with
Digital Technologies.
Likewise, senior
leaders should be embedding regular opportunities for continuing professional development (CPD) across the whole
school, giving teachers the skills and knowledge they need to teach today's children about the
digital world appropriately and effectively.
Here, find out how some
school leaders are embracing the
digital age.
Travelling from
schools right across the UK, the teams of students aged 10 to 18 will come together in London to pitch in front of a panel of judges comprised of industry
leaders and high profile figures, such as
digital entrepreneur Baroness Martha Lane Fox, Tech City CEO Gerard Grech and TV presenter Davina McCall.
Childnet has announced that it is extending its innovative Childnet
Digital Leaders Programme to all UK
schools; putting young...
Those
school's
leaders have envisioned the opportunities possible, put in the concerted effort and are finally beginning to exemplify why, in time, it will be imperative for all
schools to fashion an ecology where the use of the
digital is normalised.
Here Carl Plant, CEO of
digital technology expert bITjAM gives best practice advice for
schools looking to become
digital leaders.
Mal Lee zeroes in on the consequences of a segmented
school, and explains why
school leaders must focus on creating an integrated
school ecology based on the
digital.
There will be a Keynote Address in the
School Leaders Summit Theatre by Adam Webster, Director of
Digital Learning at Caterham
School, on «Innovative integration of technology in teaching the arts».
School administrators must be
digital leaders in their communities.
Visit the
Digital Learning Video Gallery on the website for the Alliance for Excellent Education to view real - life, practical stories about how district and
school leaders are improving learning outcomes through effective use of technology.
In the video,
leaders from Rocketship and
School of One discuss the advantages of
digital learning while sharing their concerns about California laws and union regulations that have limited the role of online learning.
Five years later, adoption rates for the
digital age approach range from 80 percent of teachers in some
schools to 20 percent in others, depending partly on how much each
school's
leader encourages it, says Jamison.
If a
school leader is unable to create a
digital culture, his or her
school will struggle.
This could see pupils in 4,500 secondary
schools trained as
digital leaders or anti-bullying ambassadors for online and offline bullying.
There were very early examples of peer - to - peer learning seen across the
school and we appointed some of the more gifted children as «
digital leaders».
The idea was sound (
digital technology can enhance learning), initial funding was generous (federal and state grants, Silicon Valley donors), and
school leaders were enthusiastic.
Valuing staff input will also increase collaboration and trust in your abilities as a
digital leader within your
school.
The authors give advice to
school leaders, such as urging them to adopt
digital programs first for «nonconsumption opportunities,» that is, for activities a
school can not otherwise provide (good results may convince everyone that they may benefit existing activities as well).
More
school leaders than ever before are seeking to harness
digital tools to personalize learning and to prepare students for life after
school, when creating and thinking with technology will be at the heart of being engaged and productive members of society.
Brett added, «I would also encourage
schools to heed the advice of the Children's Commissioner and establish
Digital Leaders in
school to get young people involved with the delivery of online safety education.
A
school may, for example, have
Digital Leaders who perform routine checks on equipment, reporting faults to technicians or even fixing problems.
I envisage an online map of the country with hundreds of pins showing
Digital Leader groups in
schools in every state.
As I had seen in previous work empowering students in such schemes, there is usually a point where teachers in a
school see the true value of their
Digital Leaders.
This is intended to not only improve the skills of more students across the
school but inspire younger students in the
school to become part of the
Digital Leader group.
Digital Leaders are simply students chosen for positions of responsibility that can help
schools and students improve their use of technology.
This was organised from start to finish by the
Digital Leaders with students presenting from various
schools, over a hundred teachers in the audience, fully catered and live streamed around the world.
I made it clear from when I started working in my current role at Urrbrae Agricultural High
School that I wanted Digital Leaders to play an important role in technology integration in the s
School that I wanted
Digital Leaders to play an important role in technology integration in the
schoolschool.
As far as the
Digital Leaders are concerned, they already have a busy agenda for the rest of the year with a follow up training and development session on Google Apps and the possibility of working with a feeder primary
school on their expo day among projects in the pipeline.
This is a very broad definition, but it is the flexibility of
Digital Leader schemes which allows
schools to deploy students in roles that will best address issues of technology integration in their learning environments.
Other
schools have
Digital Leaders that work more closely with teachers and students.
Again, work with
Digital Leaders I set up in various
schools, produced an eclectic mix of projects.
However, at my present
school, all the children get the opportunity to be
digital leaders, mentor and tutor to allow others to benefit from their
digital skills.
I knew that having students in
Digital Leaders was a vital part of a
school who was serious about advancing technology enhanced education practice and that involving young people in education reform has great potential.
One of these experiences was when all the
Digital Leaders and I spent a day teaching all the teachers at
school about Google Apps for education.
Appointing
digital leaders in the
school goes some way to achieving this lofty aim.
Digital Leaders are often a great asset with whole -
school events, promotion and can be used in community work.
More recently, I brought together
Digital Leaders from Urrbrae and two other
schools in Adelaide — Wirreanda and Woodville High
schools, to unpack
Digital Citizenship.