Get inspired and enter the Education Innovation Awards
January 23, 2013
The deadline for entries to the EICE Awards is the 19th February, so there’s still time to nominate your school, college, university or training provider. Here’s some of the inspiring projects that have been nominated so far for using technology in an innovative way . To enter your innovative project, click here.
- Queensmead School
This West London school has set up two Youtube channels providing interactive tutorials for GCSE and A Level maths students, giving all students access to high quality tuition Visit www.youtube.com/hegartymaths and www.youtube.com/mrarnoldsmaths. - Hospital and Outreach Teaching Service
This service supports children across Edinburgh, in both primary and secondary schools, who are experiencing interrupted education due to health or social and emotional difficulties. The team uses tools such as blogging and iPads to engage with pupils and enhance health and wellbeing. - AssemblyTube
Since January 2012 this free website has provided school assembly resources, promoting the use of video in assembly to engage with students. Visit http://AssemblyTube.com. - The Sheffield College
The Sheffield College runs life skills programmes for young people with severe learning disabilities to help move them towards independent living. A digital mentoring project, ‘Games to Engage’, run by technology savvy student volunteers, has been set up to encourage interaction. Platforms used include the Xbox console, Kinect peripheral, the Nintendo Wii and the iPad. - Shaw Wood Academy
The school has been using the augmented reality app Aurasma with its pupils, to make them more enthusiastic about learning. They have been creating videos about what they have been doing in lessons and have then linked these videos to display board images so that when anyone walks past the image and holds up a mobile device they can watch the video that the children have created. The major impact has been with literacy, where reluctant children have become much more engaged. Aurasma is so impressed they visited the school to record its work. - Penwortham Priory Academy
This school has introduced a 1:1 iPad scheme to pupils year 7,8 and 9. Working with the e-learning foundation it has had a 97% take up by parents so pupils can have their own iPad to use in school and at home meaning that, whilst at home, parents and siblings have access to mobile technology too. Now pupils are much more independent and the school can begin to flip learning so that the learning and research takes place out of the classroom and the application whilst with the teacher in school. - Our Lady’s Catholic High School
This Preston school organised a series of events titled Hack To The Future to inspire and engage pupils to consider studying and/or working in fields connected with computing and digital creation. Around 700 people have attended these events and the BBC commissioned a film about one of them. More info here. - All Saints Roman Catholic School
All Saints School in Dagenham could be described as a paperless school. A fully operational VLE with the full school curriculum on it enables access anytime and anywhere. All the parents are on board using the online MiS reporting tool for students. They can find out how their child is progressing at school at a time which suits them. This is something all schools strive for but very few actually achieve. - Hull College
The college has developed free technology that enables the city to work together on local opportunities, through the Humber open innovation Project. The principle of the project is to promote local opportunities to build partnerships and capacity in the city.
