Thursday, September 13, 2007
Personalisation by Pieces Goes Global.
“It is entirely possible and desirable to have schools in the UK with mentors and assessors from all over the world, working on courses and projects with have evolved from ideas and input from several different countries.” Dan Buckley.
Australia, India and China are the first examples of this already happening.
India
The Digital Learning Conference in Delhi saw hundreds of delegates from India and South East Asia gather to consider how to best enable personalisation in the diverse educational settings of the region. With over 350 million school-age children in India alone the scale is different to the UK but the flexibility of personalisation by pieces makes it a viable and creative solution. Dan Buckley gave a keynote speech and was invited to visit a school that wanted to start straight away. Read the feature article in India’s leading ICT in education magazine: Digital Learning. http://www.digitallearning.in/articles/article-details.asp?articleid=1311&typ=Cover%20Story
Australia
In December Dan Buckley will be presenting PbyP and the implications for building design. As in the UK, Australia is also in the process of building schools fit for the new emerging curricula that will serve the learners of the 21st Century.
There has already been some interest by Australian companies in starting a trail this year.
China
Schools in the UK are short of Native Mandarin Chinese speakers to meet the Government’s ambitious new languages targets and schools in China are short of English speakers to meet their’s. We have started discussions about linking learners together through English and Chinese speaking skills ladders and will be looking for UK schools to help us conduct a trail in March with schools we have worked with in China.
Singapore, America, New Zealand and Canada
We are continuing to find ways to engage with schools in a number of countries that have approached us interested in the PbyP framework and the web tool.