digital environments and their role in communication and collaboration simon wilson & ben milne
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• Introductions
• What are digital environments?
• What are the aims and outcomes of their deployment?
• How digital environments have developed at Ashgrove School, Penarth
• What are the outcomes?
Seminar Aims
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• Dedicated ASD provision
• ICT embedded into curriculum throughout
• ICT Curriculum focuses on enabling ICT Capability.
• Early adoption to empower
Ashgrove School
This is how we remember technology being presented in 2009. Purple slides, green text and underlining. Did
jazzy colors ever make presentations interesting? Children with learning difficulties (and most
neurotypical people) find this text exceptionally difficult to read never mind tolerate. If your ICT
Capability is poor or the technology is poorly presented then people fail to see it as a positive influence. It will not
permeate, it will be seen as a hurdle and it will be rejected because life is easier without it.
A digital nightmare (2009)
Development Timeline
2010 - 2011
2011 - 2012
2009 - 2010AssembliesAssemblies
Introduction of Introduction of MacsMacs
Looking for Looking for partnerspartners
PermeationPermeationCreative Creative
CurriculumCurriculumTechnical SupportTechnical Support
Club EvernoteClub Evernote
Introduction of iPadsIntroduction of iPadsFurther Technical Further Technical
SupportSupportCentralised PrintingCentralised Printing
Cemented PartnershipsCemented PartnershipsNintendo OlympicsNintendo Olympics
BETT PresentationBETT PresentationAnimation ProjectsAnimation Projects
EmailEmailTeaching with Teaching with
ReflectionReflectionStaff ProvisionStaff Provision
MDMMDM
‘A key characteristic of these new technologies is “learning by doing” – users need to be immersed in
and “play with” the affordances that these new digital environments offer, and hence over time get a sense of how they can change practice.’ Conole
(2011:403)