I suppose you have to look to the Local Authority support services that would advise schools and teachers on the use and implementation of such tools. The responsibility of this shouldn't lie just with the ICT training and development agencies, but the Numeracy and Literacy teams also.
In my experience, these training and development agencies have a huge influence on the activity that takes place in the classroom, through the many courses and INSET courses that they run.
BETT 2007 will host a wide range of exhibitors, many of whom selling their software to all and sundry. 28,000 people attend the annual show, but that won't necessarily mean that the implementation of new tools is guaranteed. It very much depends on the right people identifying with the software who is able to see how such tools can be utilised in the authority.
I believe we need strong advocates of the mind mapping and creative tools to trail-blaze their use of them in schools and for people to take note of the many benefits. We are then ever-hopeful, that the training and development agencies take heed and sell that to their clients in the Local Authority.
Jonathan
I suppose you have to look to the Local Authority support services that would advise schools and teachers on the use and implementation of such tools. The responsibility of this shouldn't lie just with the ICT training and development agencies, but the Numeracy and Literacy teams also.
In my experience, these training and development agencies have a huge influence on the activity that takes place in the classroom, through the many courses and INSET courses that they run.
BETT 2007 will host a wide range of exhibitors, many of whom selling their software to all and sundry. 28,000 people attend the annual show, but that won't necessarily mean that the implementation of new tools is guaranteed. It very much depends on the right people identifying with the software who is able to see how such tools can be utilised in the authority.
I believe we need strong advocates of the mind mapping and creative tools to trail-blaze their use of them in schools and for people to take note of the many benefits. We are then ever-hopeful, that the training and development agencies take heed and sell that to their clients in the Local Authority.