NewsDigital media integration
- e-portfolios
Through the government’s e-strategy ‘Harnessing technology’ all pupils should have access to an e-portfolio in/by 2008. This means effectively that all schools must integrate some kind of Learning Management System into the school infrastructure.
- Personalisation in learning
The requirement for each pupil to have access to an e-portfolio is related to the ‘personalisation’ agenda that recognises that pupils learn at different paces. Digital technology is absolutely right for addressing this.
- Analogue switch off
Analogue switch off has begun with the whole of the UK being switched off by 2012. This has focussed people’s minds on the reality that a key attribute of 21st century life is that we live in a truly digital world.
- The Building Schools for the Future programme
This programme has a target of integrating digital technology into the infrastructure of all schools in the ten years from 2005-6.
- Ofsted inspections
With government requirements for integrating digital technology, Ofsted inspections will look closely at how schools are utilising the technology in their practices.
Tags: Building Schools for the Future, e-portfolio, integration, MLE, VLE
