Digital Literacy and ICT
- advice and sharing best practice in using ICT across the curriculum.
Personalised Learning
This is where pupils take ownership of their own learning and encapsulates the formative and summative assessment approaches as set in Scotland in Assessment is for Learning.
This view is also fundamental to the way the DFES envisages how schools of the future will operate.
Fife Education's rollout of the Pearson e1 MIS software has incorporated elements of personal learning within its specification.
Work on introducing both tracking and pupil involvement, perhaps integrated to a VLE and other online resources is under development.
The Fife Education service currently implements PLP’s within Fife schools. The PLP is aimed at providing an individual learning scheme for pupils that offers them education tailored to their individual needs.
Under the PLP teachers and pupils routinely record the children’s progress in a document over the course of the year. The document is also available for parents to review and provide some comment pertaining to their child’s educational progress. Personal Learning Plans will be used to record a child’s development.
Two other plans are in use in Fife:
Co-ordinated Support Plan (CSP) and Integrated Support Planning (ISP) as defined in Fife Education - Standard Circular NSG 1.
A summary of the three types is taken from the Fife MIS specification.
With respect solely to ICT in schools there are ICT PLPs already in use cross referenced to the 5-14 guidelines although these are being replaced in 2011/12 by e-portfolios in glow.
More information will be added here in the autumn 2009 term.