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ICT Conference
Celebrating Success
Presentations
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Celebrating Success
The Hertfordshire Grid
for Learning and
standards of Attainment in Hertfordshire
Stuart Powell
The future
of ICT in schools Niel McLean
The ICT Key Stage 3 Strategy
Clare Johnson
Future funding arrangements for ICT
Doug Brown
Key points from the presentation
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Workshops |
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Use
of laptops by teachers in a secondary school
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Held on 30 October 2001
Speakers Profiles
Stuart Powell
Stuart taught for 18 years before moving into a school support role
leading on the use of new technology within Lancashire LEA. As a
School Development Advisor with the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport,
Stuart led on school improvement issues in a cluster of schools
ranging from infant through to post-16. He is currently Principal
Adviser with School Standards and Curriculum and his role focuses
on the management of a number of advisors with specialist responsibility
Niel McLean
After 15 years in teaching and advisory work, Niel McLean joined
the School Curriculum and Assessment Authority for the 'Dearing
review' of the National Curriculum in England. He led on assessment
work in IT and D&T, being responsible for examinations and qualifications
in those areas. He was responsible for producing all SCAA's exemplification
for the IT curriculum and for all areas of IT policy at SCAA. When
SCAA amalgamated with the NCVQ to form the Qualifications and Curriculum
Authority he was promoted to Principal Manager for ICT, where he
led the team which was also responsible for wider, vocational qualifications
in ICT.
He joined Becta as Director of Schools in 1998 where he was responsible
for Becta's curriculum, institutional development, strategic support
and inclusion work. He has now taken over as Director for Evidence
and Practice with the objective of establishing an evidential base
about ICT and Education which identifies effective practice and
disseminates it in such a way that it influences policy and professional
practice.
Clare Johnson
Clare started teaching in the 1970's. They were also pioneering
days in the world of computer education. In Bexley, after a number
of years teaching Maths, a young Clare volunteered to begin teaching
a CSE computing class. Within a few years she had set up and developed
a successful computer department in her school and was teaching
pupils through to 'A' level. Time moved on and Clare became an Advisory
Teacher, sharing her passion for IT with other teachers in her LEA.
Later, she became an Advisor for IT in the same London Borough and
began to become involved with IT initiatives at a national level.
During this time she made significant contributions to the development
of the IT National Curriculum and the KS1 and KS2 Schemes of Work
for IT. In 1999 Clare became Principal Manager for ICT where she
continues to help shape the, now, ICT National Curriculum and Scheme
of Work at KS3.
In addition to her formal role at QCA Clare writes and enthuses
about ICT in a number of magazines and newspapers. She sits on a
number of advisory groups and gives regular presentations around
the country.
Doug Brown
Doug has been involved in education computing since starting as
a teacher in the early 1970s. Having taught in secondary schools
in Ipswich and Birmingham, he joined the renowned Birmingham Education
Computing Centre in 1981. As a peripatetic head of department he
had a brief to make himself redundant in every school he worked
in - by training staff in the school to take over his teaching role.
As computing use spread, Doug took on the role of managing the in-service
training a survived a number of reorganisations rising, firstly
to head the advisory team for ICT and then acting for a short spell
as director of the whole of Birmingham's Educational Support Services,
In 1991 he became schools ICT adviser in Birmingham and developed
responsibility for the strategic direction of ICT in schools across
the LEA. During this time he led on creating the Birmingham Grid
for Learning - Birmingham's response to the Government's National
Grid for Learning - which is now seen as a leading example of what
is possible.
Doug also has an international reputation having been the organiser
of the 1995 IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing)
World Conference on Computers in Education which is held every five
years. He is also a leading member of their secondary working group
and recently chaired an international event on the school of the
future. Regularly invited to present keynote sessions on this topic,
in August he opened the educational strand of the World Computer
Congress in China.
Currently, Doug is Divisional Manager for the National Grid for
Learning Division which leads on behalf of the Department for Education
and Skills on the Government's ICT in schools' policies.
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