The Educator Magazine U.K. Jan-April 2023. - Magazine - Page 14
“We hosted our free event at Thorpe
Park in October this year. We invited
10,000 children to the event alongside
some amazing partners like the Royal
Philharmonic, Mercedes F1, Intel and
others. More information about this
event can be seen here.”
What are you most looking
forward to in 2023?
Rachel James, Assistant Principal
Teaching and Learning, Barnsley
College
Amy Hollier, Director of Blended and
Online Learning, Blended Learning
Consortium and Heart of
Worcestershire College
“It is hard to name just one project or
example. We have seen colleges using
tech in a number of different ways to
capture more authentic assessment
opportunities for example one college
is using wearable tech to capture live
practical work and upload into a digital
portfolio. Another college is using VR
to help school leavers transition into
further education. The use of haptic suits
are also marking exciting developments
in vocational educationbeing used in a
variety of ways across courses such as
sports and fitness and health and social
care.”
Graeme Lawrie MBE, Director of
Partnerships, ACS International
Schools
Comenius Project for a group of our
pupils to visit a school in Dubai for a
week at the end of February and I’m
sure that how the school uses and
integrates technology will be at the
heart of our visit and will allow the
partnership between the two schools
to continue in the months and years
ahead.”
“I’m really looking forward to seeing
how our Discover Digital packs are
going to be used in our non-digital
classrooms. The packs include tablets,
oculus, VR headsets and WiFi projectors.
These packs have been trialled to see
how much people would use them
during 2022 and the early usage data
shows people have started to use them
well, but we’re really driving forward
with these. I’m really excited to reach
the point when a member of staff
approaches the digital learning team
and ask for something new to be added
into the packs because they have a
great use for it.”
Martin Bailey, Computing Subject
Leader, Lanchester EP Primary School
“For me it has to be taking a group of
Year 5 and Year 6 pupils (9-11 yearolds) to Dubai in February. For our little
school in Co.Durham to be represented
in this way and for the 24 pupils going
to have this incredible experience is
really something phenomenal. We were
delighted to receive funding via the
Alex Denley, Director of Innovation
and Transformation, London South
Bank University
“I am really looking forward to
undertaking analysis and reviewing the
data within our digital platforms to see
how students are engaging and how
we can gain powerful insight to helping
better graduate outcomes and
improving student retention.”
Bett returns to the ExCeL London on 29-31 March 2023, bringing the education community
together to learn, network and trade. You can register for a ticket here!