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Saturday, 26 September 2015

Activity 1.5 - Brainstorming and tagging topics

Together with your tutor group, brainstorm topics that presenters might choose as the basis for submissions at a conference where ‘inclusion’, ‘innovation’ and ‘implementation’ are offered within a theme of ‘Openness in education’.

I started off okay. Inclusion is a word I am well familiar with. Innovation also filled my mind with ideas. But implementation? I suddenly realised it would be a good idea to define these words, especially as I've had a sneaky peak at the first TMA and I'm going to be writing 1000 words about one of them. So I've started with a definition (stolen from Google, using the technique one of my sons showed me of typing define: inclusion, etc. into a Google search).

Inclusion: 

Definition: The act of being included within a group or structure.
  • The use of a VLE to tackle rural isolation
  • Blended learning for ESOL learners
  • MOOC to provide ESOL for Syrian refugees
  • Can interactive whiteboards motivate travellers enough to improve achievement?
  • A video to raise awareness/funds for Worklink
  • How could technology improve teaching, learning and assessment in BSL sessions?

Innovation: 

Definition: The act of making changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas or products.
  • How could technology improve teaching, learning and assessment in BSL sessions?
  • Introducing apps to enable learner voice
  • Producing photobooks as RARPA evidence
  • Use of QR codes in promoting courses
  • An interactive ILP on the VLE
  • The case for **** going mobile

Implementation: 

Definition: The process of putting a decision or plan into effect.
  • Dragging **** into the 21st century
  • MOOC for early reading – synthetic phonics
  • Could **** save money by going Open Source?
  • The use of mobile devices in improving Functional Skills achievements
  • Embedding interactivity into teaching, learning and assessment
  • Implementing Fundamental British Values through the VLE
  • Online safety – implementing a cross-organisational community