Dominic Savage OBEDirector General, BESA

Chair of Governors, All Saints Technology and Training College, London

Speaking at the opening of BETT 2010:

“The companies in the educational resources industry are stakeholders in educational improvement”

2008 School Leaver

With thanks to Becta

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For young people, technology is a way of life

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1997>2008ICTspend inEngland

More the managers and facilitators of learning

Confident in the classroom use of technology

Informed purchasers of tools for teaching

Professional collaborators with their peers

Effective interpreters of assessment data

E-confidentE-effectiveE-efficent system

So, the teachers needed today are different:

Up for real-time parental communication

Knowing and using the technology

Keeping abreast of what is to come

Technical collaboration with peers

Interpreting and using data effectively

Choosing resources to personalise learning

21st

CenturyTeachers

...and so is the training they need:

Coping with real-time reporting

Invite them in Software licence for training institutions Use their events Collaborate on ICT action research Work with the industry on submissions to

Government Offer product development testing

The pace of change

continues….