ICT Skunkworks

ICT SKUNKWORKS

This coming Tuesday we are planning to hold an ICT skunkworks. A wide range of people have been invited to attend. The outcome of the meeting will be to have agreed a draft three-year strategy to enable us to make best use of ICT in East Lothian schools. Members of the group have been provided with a copy of the ICT policy for East Lothian. Members of the group include - headteachers; teachers; corporate ICT team members; admin staff; pupils; SQA rep; SSDN rep; Principal teachers; Directorate.

ELC Education Aim – to improve children’s life chances

Outcomes of our practice:

Children - safe; engaged; successful

Staff - happy; fulfilled; valued

Families - informed; involved; supported

We wish children to become:

• Responsible citizens
• Effective contributors
• Successful learners
• Confident individuals

Our Challenge: to develop and sustain a high reliability ICT system which will enable us to fulfil our aims.

Guidelines for the day:

1. No barriers
2. Creativity – no bad ideas
3. Feel free to disagree – suspension of politeness
4. Build upon other people’s ideas
5. Focus upon the result
6. Key words to guide our practice - sustainability; reliability; consistency

Programme

1. Outline of our challenge: DL – 15 minutes

2. What are we trying to make? – focus on the concrete (ENGINE ROOM) (60 minutes)

3. Tip out what we’ve got on the table - what have we got at the moment (35 minutes)

4. How could we use this differently? – take what we’ve got and reconfigure (35 minutes)

5. How do we make it work (35 minutes)

6. What comes first? (35 minutes)

7. ???? - these sessions will emerge as the day progresses

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10. Project management Gantt chart – planning the future