Becta

Becta
Becta's Schools' Page website offers advice and guidance to school leadership teams on how technology can be built into teaching, learning and management. Learner Entitilement to ICT Professional Development for teachers Becta YouTube channel [|Learning platforms: Steps to adoption]This guidance is to help schools use the learning platform as part of everyday practice ... [|Online reporting framework]This booklet contains checklists for schools working towards the online reporting expectations ... [|Taking the journey towards excellence]The Charter offers schools a clear pathway to using technology effectively throughout the whole school ... [|21st century teacher]This booklet helps teachers address the challenge of using technology in daily school life ... [|Raising standards]This booklet explains how you can put technology at the heart of your institution and raise standards ... [|Inspiring learners]In this booklet you can find out how to inspire learners by using technology ... [|Engaging families]This booklet explains how technology at home can help the whole family engage in learning ... [|This is Next Generation Learning: Recognising ICT excellence in schools]Publication to celebrate and share the good practice of the winners in the 2009 ICT Excellence Awards. ... [|Engaging parents through online reporting: Secondary school DVD resource]A comprehensive guide, background and supporting materials to online reporting for schools ... [|Becta: Our work, its impact]In this publication, we review the major and important activity undertaken over the last year ...



Make the best use of your learning platform
Does your school have access to a learning platform, but you are not sure how to best make use of it?

Themes
The following are some of the main areas you will need to consider when developing the use of your learning platform. Within these pages you will find video case studies, including commentaries by senior leaders about their approaches: media type="youtube" key="wHUv9gcXsdw" height="344" width="425" Independent research has shown that where schools are making good use of institutional technologies, such as their learning platforms, they can provide more effective tutorial support between teacher and student. In this film we see how three very different schools have used their learning platforms to: It has been shown that the safe use of collaboration tools, including social networking through the learning platform, can increase the student’s involvement in the school community, and promotes increased motivation and peer learning. This film highlights how a primary and secondary school have: Integrated technologies provide new, fast ways of communicating to a wide range of stakeholders including, staff, pupils and parents enabling a greater insight to the work and ethos of the school. In this film three schools have used communication tools in the learning platform to: media type="youtube" key="G6TlyQVGToI" height="385" width="480" Using these ideas you should be able to see some of the real potential that your learning platform can offer your school.
 * [|Assessment]
 * support student self-assessment
 * develop speaking and analytical skills
 * extend teaching and learning opportunities.
 * [|Collaboration]
 * supported learning as a social activity and encourage peer support
 * extended learning opportunities through the use of experts
 * enabled increased cross-school working.
 * [|Communication]
 * ensure continuity of learning for pupils unable to attend school
 * strengthen links between teachers and parents
 * encourage pupil voice and involve the whole school community
 * increase the possibilities for one-to-one feedback between pupils and staff.
 * [|Engaging parents]
 * [|Organisation and development]
 * [|Personalisation]
 * [|Pupil voice]
 * [|Transformation]
 * [|Transition]
 * Extending LEarning

Find out how
This series of videos, feature school staff who share their experiences and ideas around some of the common issues you have with learning platforms: [|How do I get started?] [|What are the main benefits?] [|What challenges might I face?] [|What about staff training?] [|What about technical support?] [|What about e-safety?] [|What about children who don’t have home access?] [|Doesn't it increase staff workload?] [|Why should I bother to develop the learning platform?] [|How do you afford it?] The **Becta** **publication** [|Learning platforms: Steps to adoption] is available to download - this guidance is to help schools use the learning platform as part of everyday practice. Becta has also undertaken research into learning platform and associated technologies usage within primary and secondary schools. The [|School use of learning platforms and associated technologies report] is available to download from the Research area..
 * Get more inspiration** - visit [|Extending learning] on the Next Generation Learning website.

Related links
This site... [|Learning platforms: Steps to adoption]