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The ICT Register - www.ict-register.net - is an online resource which enables schools to learn from each others' innovative use of technology. Over the past two years hundreds of schools have used it to contact, learn from and collaborate with the leading users of ICT in England. The Register is now looking for schools from across the globe to join the initiative.
The ICT Register is a unique online directory of cutting edge ICT practice in primary, secondary and special needs education. The Register provides a means by which these schools can offer their knowledge and expertise to other schools seeking to build eConfidence. Schools listed on the Register author and update their own entries, so the website captures the very latest practice.
Areas of ICT use addressed by schools fall under the following headings:
A guiding principle of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust is that collaboration between schools and the sharing of good practice is central to transforming education. By sharing their wealth of knowledge and experience of new technologies, ICT Register schools are helping to embed ICT in all schools.
ICT Register schools are also playing their part in helping industry to develop effective software for learning, teaching and assessment. Many have formed clusters of schools to pilot software and carry out school-based research. Some have also been influential in shaping current Government thinking on education.
The short answer is 'anybody'!
Enquiries covering a range of issues have been made by teachers, headteachers, technical staff, school governors, ICT advisors and education authorities. Using the website to contact schools is a free service aimed at anyone who works in education.
ICT is a major tool for effective international collaboration. By featuring schools from all parts of the globe, the ICT Register can better reflect the variety of ways in which technology is being used to aid this interaction, sometimes in the most challenging of circumstances. It can also demonstrate how ICT is helping to address geographical and socio-economic problems.
Schools that join the ICT Register are eager for opportunities to network with other schools, both nationally and internationally. The ICT Register provides these opportunities, via the sharing of good practice with other ICT Register schools, and the offering of help and advice with ICT.
There are opportunities for international software test-bedding e.g. Enlish ICT Register schools have worked with schools in Australia to trial interactive learning objects in the classroom (see http://www.ict-register.net/trials.php?action=details&trial=tlf for copies of some of the case studies.) As more international schools join the Register, the interest in using their expertise to develop learning technologies will surely grow globally as it has already done within the UK.
The Register is also a route to raising a school’s profile; many of our schools are frequently visited by Government officials and other agencies that wish to witness and document the very best ICT practice.
You only need to join the ICT Register if you want to offer services via the site; to use the services other schools are offering simply go straight to the website.
The application process to begin offering services is simple: