#51 - How can tech save teachers time? Innovation & efficiency

What's in this week's episode?

Content:

1. BYOD vs 1 to 1 initiatives with Surface  
2. Using technology to do the heavy lifting and save time on resources, feedback and data
3. Using a flipped approach for staff, students, governors and parents –
4. Plus more on Leadership, planning and serving your students

Alan Crawford, Vice Principal, Shireland Collegiate Academy

• Reading about emotional intelligence is something I find really interesting
• Our whole academy is built on Office 365

Sir Mark Grundy, Headteacher, Shireland Collegiate Academy, @sirmarkgrundy, quotes:

• We’ve created a system which frees hours and hours and hours of staff time
• At the risk of putting myself out of favour with the photocopying industry…what most schools do, is photocopy the world. It’s not an economic way of delivering learning.
• I’m stubborn in that I won’t accept that technology should force our processes to change. We are your best and worst place to pilot anything.
• What you can’t do is build all sorts of technology benefits on top of chaos.
• Not enough schools are stubborn around the processes of learning and school improvement and school management.
• I have a problem with BringYourOwnDevice. It’s just chaos, utter chaos!
• The depth of scrutiny we now get from our trustees is at a level I’ve never seen
• I think technology is just such a great lever for support and change and it’s a great leveller
• I expect the leadership team to serve the staff and the kids. I don’t expect the staff to serve the leadership team.
• Do our staff feel pressured? Yes they do. Do they feel accountable? Yes they do. Do I think they feel well supported by us? Yes, I think they do.
• We have pushed our staff to put try and do a more evidence based analysis of what they do
• My experience in the DFE at the moment is they are genuinely looking at how to do things differently.
• I was hugely impressed. She spoke about a different landscape. She touched on the sort of skills our young people need. Every conversation has involved how do we harness the power of technology

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Extras: 

Questions for Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills, and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary-General at the OECD - email me [email protected] 

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References: 

• Office MIX/Office 365 for Education

http://www.mixforteachers.com/uploads/5/0/2/4/50241791/office_mix_help_guide_final.pdf

https://twitter.com/officemixteam

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/education/products/office/default.aspx 

https://twitter.com/office365 

• Matt Woodruff Coscole

https://twitter.com/themattwoodruff 

http://www.coscole.com/partners

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/themattwoodruff

• Anoop Gupta

https://www.linkedin.com/in/guptaanoop

https://www.facebook.com/teloapp/

http://www.geekwire.com/2016/ex-microsoft-exec-anoop-guptas-new-startup-is-rethinking-messaging-by-empowering-recipients/

• David Irish, Associate Principal, Shireland

https://twitter.com/DavidIrishSCA 

• Teacher Toolkit

www.theteachertoolkit.com/

https://twitter.com/TeacherToolkit 

• Dylan William

www.dylanwiliam.org/

https://twitter.com/dylanwiliam

• Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman

http://www.danielgoleman.info/topics/emotional-intelligence/

https://twitter.com/DanielGolemanEI 

• Jonathan Bishop, Broadclyst - they are doing amazing stuff with the kids in their school

https://twitter.com/broadclyst 

• School 21 in London – AI on revision: School 21 in London has got some cracking stuff around their thematic delivery

www.school21.org.uk

https://twitter.com/school21_uk

• Mike Parker – Director Schools North East

https://twitter.com/mikeparker_sne

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-parker-a074929

• Microsoft Schools – putting in contact with other schools internationally.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/school-leaders/showcase-schools/default.aspx

https://twitter.com/microsoft_edu 

• Nicky Morgan/EEF - research schools,

https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/our-work/research-schools/ 

• Institute of effective education university of York, Nikky Jones (Nicola Jones)

http://thelearningbank.co.uk/shireland/researchSchool.html

http://www.york.ac.uk/iee/  

 https://twitter.com/rs_network 

• Lord Jim Knight

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jimpknight

https://twitter.com/jimpknight

• Justine Greening

https://twitter.com/JustineGreening

https://www.justinegreening.co.uk/ 

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