http://advisorymatters.naaceblogs.org/2006/09/28/coursework-gets-supervised-2/ In 1992, I was involved in an exciting ICT and learning conference with this title. I'm assuming that Steve Heppell, who was one of the main organisers for the conference, came up with this phrase to express the theme of the conference. Although a great deal has happened in education since, we've still got a long way to go to make this question irrelevant. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:30:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://advisorymatters.naaceblogs.org/2006/09/28/coursework-gets-supervised-2/comment-page-1/#comment-775 Never mind the technology, where’s the learning? » Blog Archive » Coursework scrap plans finally announced Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:47:24 +0000 http://advisorymatters.naaceblogs.org/2006/09/28/coursework-gets-supervised-2/#comment-775 [...] First it was Maths, and now as predicted all coursework from home will be scrapped from 2009. As stated in my previous post, the plan is that coursework will be conducted under supervision “by a teacher and access to books, the internet and other sources of information will be controlled”. The reason being, as John Dunford of the Association of School and College Leaders said: [...] [...] First it was Maths, and now as predicted all coursework from home will be scrapped from 2009. As stated in my previous post, the plan is that coursework will be conducted under supervision “by a teacher and access to books, the internet and other sources of information will be controlled”. The reason being, as John Dunford of the Association of School and College Leaders said: [...]

]]> http://advisorymatters.naaceblogs.org/2006/09/28/coursework-gets-supervised-2/comment-page-1/#comment-283 Never mind the technology, where’s the learning? » Blog Archive » ICT test to be made ‘optional’ Fri, 05 Jan 2007 21:33:45 +0000 http://advisorymatters.naaceblogs.org/2006/09/28/coursework-gets-supervised-2/#comment-283 [...] The introduction of a National ICT Strategy for Key Stage 3 ICT recognised that ICT as a subject was being poorly taught, and that, as a subject, it was vital to students’ education in the modern world. The introduction of statutory testing and reporting was, and is, vital in reinforcing the status of this area of the curriculum because it is, unfortunately, only through national assessment procedures that all schools take heed of priorities. We’d all like it to be different, but at present it’s not. What can one assume when coursework in Mathematics is swept away in a single stroke, and at the point when ICT might receive the attention it deserves by introducing statutory testing through examination, the minutes of the QCA (the body for setting subject standards on schools, say, “that it was not necessary to burden schools with anadditional statutory test, considering that ICT was something thatshould be embedded into other subjects”? [...] [...] The introduction of a National ICT Strategy for Key Stage 3 ICT recognised that ICT as a subject was being poorly taught, and that, as a subject, it was vital to students’ education in the modern world. The introduction of statutory testing and reporting was, and is, vital in reinforcing the status of this area of the curriculum because it is, unfortunately, only through national assessment procedures that all schools take heed of priorities. We’d all like it to be different, but at present it’s not. What can one assume when coursework in Mathematics is swept away in a single stroke, and at the point when ICT might receive the attention it deserves by introducing statutory testing through examination, the minutes of the QCA (the body for setting subject standards on schools, say, “that it was not necessary to burden schools with anadditional statutory test, considering that ICT was something thatshould be embedded into other subjects”? [...]

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