Insight from practice
‘To realise the full potential of technology to
support the personalisation of learning in the
next 5
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10 years, schools will need to:
Teaching, learning and assessment
Five aspects were highlighted: • integrate the school management
• Learning delivery should be ‘blended’. No one information system with the learning
strategy should predominate if pupils are really to platform, so that information about pupils
benefit. collected for administrative purposes (e.g.
attendance data) can be combined with
• The quality of relationships between each pupil data that relates to pupil learning and used
and her/his teachers and those in learning to give practitioners, learners and
support roles will be a vital cornerstone. parents/carers a more holistic, complete
view of pupil progress, achievement and
• Assessment will be even more critical and must needs, thus providing a better basis for
be timely. Staff will need feedback on levels of intervention and support;
achievement in order to design and support an • enable universal access to technology
individual learning programme that will meet equipment and digital learning resources
‘real requirements and need’. Software might on demand, within and beyond the
make a strong contribution, for example to help institution;
analyse aptitudes, assess achievements and give • develop a network architecture that
prompt feedback. facilitates access to resources and services
from learners’ own technology devices;
• ICT will be essential to both expand and facilitate • implement e-portfolios which support
opportunities for independent and individual formative and summative assessment,
learning. One important step would be to critical reflection, and transition between
introduce e-portfolios to ensure that each educational phases;
student’s work and achievements are easily • provide practitioners with tools for
portable and each has her/his own system. managing learning across more diverse
learning pathways (e.g. in 14
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• Resources must be produced to ‘enshrine diplomas);
principles of personalisation’: books as well as • provide services to learners and
ICT. This implies that many products will be parents/carers that are solely technology-
designed to be niche. Systems or packages will based (e.g. accessible via a web interface)
be more useful if they are ‘agile, adaptable’ and rather than running electronic and paper-
can be disaggregated. based systems in parallel;
• provide practitioners (and learners) with
tools to produce and disseminate their
‘The technology and implementation own teaching and learning resources;
is still catching up
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so elements such • increase the speed and capacity of
as e-portfolios that are easily broadband connectivity (e.g. to an order of
transferred and actually work over a magnitude higher than at present);
whole student’s school life are still • increase network capacity (for storing
not in place. Without this, e-portfolios, rich multimedia etc).’
personalised learning is still difficult Becta
to analyse.’ School leader, international school
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