If you are a teacher who believes in challenging and inspiring young people by giving them responsibility and real life experiences, then I need your help. With the potential support of vital (funding), we are hoping to share the Digital Leader program with colleagues in the SE regime (and beyond if your interested). The more schools interested, the more we can do to innovate the programme. Who/what are Digital Leaders? In a nutshell, it is Student Voice for ICT with a production twist. Digital Leaders meet, innovate and publish through Digital Leadership, as well as being expected to be a ‘leader’ within school, similar to the common variety prefect but utilising the power and engagement of all things Digital.
The Digital Leaders are a group of students from Hamble Community Sports College that lead innovative ICT practice at Hamble College and regularly meet as part of the Digital Media and Gaming Club. They contribute to ICT innovation and curriculum development and contribute to school ICT policy.
One particular focus is the use of digital media to cover LIVE events for school and educational groups such as SSAT, Hampshire Information and Advisory Service and Open Source Schools. This coverage is then shared internally through the VLE and externally with parents via the school website.
Digital Leaders are position of responsibility and students apply, and reapply annually for the leader posts. Digital Leaders are given IT privileges, opportunities to develop their software and hardware skills and contribute important role with the ICT strategy for the school.
Loosely based on the GENyes programme, our leaders have grown in confidence and expectation. Students have covered live conferences, support CPD, lead CPD and about to design a Digital Leaders E-trainers qualification for future generation Digital Leaders.
If you are interested then leave me a comment.
Thanks for the kind offer of being involved with this Kristian 🙂
I’ve already been having a little think, we have a strong Media department at school as well as ICT. I may think about offering the Digital Leader posts to those who have taken, or plan to take, either/or of those two subjects at KS4. Although the support of these two subjects will be crucial, I’d want the Leaders to have an impact right across our curriculum. They could be just the tool I’ve been looking for to help drive the use of IT across our teaching staff.
Look forward to seeing where we can take this.
Dan