Very important debate here. Teaching quality is everything. Teachers with the ability to engage and teach all levels of students is what we need. We need to give teachers the time and tools like those developed by Sean Warren to reflect on their practise and develop their skills like any other workforce. If we did it would make Ofsted job easier as well to be accurate in their assessments and feedback. We need to put the support and training mechanisms around teachers in the same way as elite sporting talent is supported. https://lnkd.in/g9pKbbZ8
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Thank you for sharing Nick Poole OBE. Over the last two years I have witnessed first hand the ever widening gulf between what we teach in our schools and what is happening at the cutting edge of digital in our businesses. I find it unbelievable that school leaders are reducing or removing Design and Technology from their school offering; the only place where any form of creativity, problem solving or system thinking is taught. Absolutely what we need to inspire and support our younger generations into a sustainable future. Digital Creativity GCSE - ABSOLUTELY! I can see this inspiring the brilliant talent waiting to be ignited in our schools. Whilst this may fuel the video games and interactive entertainment industries its positive impact on every sector of our society would be considerable. Recently I interviewed 26 year 9’s in a local school and reflecting on all of their ambition (they were amazing!) I can see how a Digital Creativity GCSE would compliment all of their hopes for their futures. Nick, we have some amazing businesses here in Telfod, Shropshire and Wrekin, we have considerable young people, how can we help? We are already driving to be a digital centre of excellence and want to go as far as we can. The recent opening of The Quad at The Station Quarter in Telford shows the intent to make positive change. Telford & Wrekin Council Telford College Harper Adams University Invest Telford Liz Wakeham-Jones Ruth Ross Shaun Davies Professor Ken Sloan
Chief Executive of Ukie, the trade body for the UK video game and interactive entertainment industry.
Day 2 of Westminster Games Week and it's all about Skills. At last night's dinner with MPs I set out our ambition for this to be the "most pro-games Parliament in British history" based on three core "asks"for cross-bench support: 1) Supporting pro-growth policies, in particular by enhancing tax reliefs for game development and equipping the UK Games Fund with the resources to support a new generation of indies; 2) Working in partnership with the industry to maintain a balanced regulatory environment for video games developers and publisher's to create great experiences for players, and; 3) Supporting calls to put digital creativity at the heart of skills and education policy by backing the call for a Digital Creativity GCSE. This latter point is today's main topic for discussion in Parliament. We have built a digital society for our children, and now we urgently need to equip them with the core skills to live in it safely and productively. This touches on building empathy and critical literacy, media literacy and the curiosity and know-how to be digitally creative. We've already had support from teachers and policymakers. Our ambition is to translate this positive momentum into real and lasting change. We are working hard to supercharge not only the creative economy in the UK but to transform education and cultural participation. Reedah El-Saie, Ukie, Charu Desodt, Andy Tomlinson, Miles Jacobson, Andy Payne OBE, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Department for Business and Trade, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Bhavina B., Daniele Schmidt-Fischer, Shahneila Saeed, FRSA, Lisa Opie, ScreenSkills
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This is so important to lots of sectors beyond video games. The digital talent that the video games and interactive entertainment sector creates has considerable positive knock on effects to other sectors and industries. Just the other day when doing a careers presentation in a school I transitioned from talking about working in video games to working in agricultural technology; zapping something in a 3D game on screen is now very similar to the real world scenario of drones precision farming by dropping fertiliser and worms on specific parts of a field!
Chief Executive of Ukie, the trade body for the UK video game and interactive entertainment industry.
Back in Westminster today for the launch of Westminster Games Week! We have had a fantastic reception from new and established MPs and Peers keen to talk about the UK's world-leading video game and interactive entertainment industry. Over the next three days Ukie has organised a series of round-tables, Parliamentary events, networking receptions and private conversations aimed at securing the long-term interests of our industry. The "mood music" around our industry is encouraging - the new Government have consistently referred to us as a key industry in their growth agenda and we have had really good conversations with officials and Parliamentarians. Now we need to translate positive sentiment into concrete support. We all looked with envy at the Independent Films Tax Relief announced recently (although based as it was on a market failure argument I'm not sure it's the exact path we want to follow!). We need to ensure that we're building a supportive financial environment for people to scale and grow their games business. Video games and interactive entertainment are a massive success story, but sustaining and growing that success on a sustainable basis needs Government to work hand-in-hand with industry to ensure that the right support mechanisms are in place. It promises to be an exciting week!
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What a positive milestone this is for our region! Lets hope that it helps develop some crazy creative young people with new ideas to positively change the world! https://lnkd.in/exvn3Ujt #shropshire #education Telford & Wrekin Council Shropshire Chamber of Commerce Harper Adams University
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Excellent commentary this morning from Branwen Jeffreys on the BBC this morning on mobile phone use in schools. In working with the Scout mobile phone detectors in school we are selling schools develop cost effective ways of managing student mobile phone usage that doesn't take up hours of teachers time and divert it from pastoral support during form periods. The real cost is teacher time for admin. Developing self-regulation and good habit in our students mobile phone use is essential. Check out Scout - link in the comments below
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Working with Scout mobile phone finder we are already seeing some amazing cost effective results in supporting schools to manage the use of mobile phones. Check out the link in the comments 👇 https://lnkd.in/edmrGfeQ #mobilephones #schools
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Well done Aston University Engineering Academy, leading the way on inspiring our younger generations as usual!
☀️ As featured on @goodmorningbritian (Good Morning Britain)💡AUEA UTC Foundation Year 9 students were able to participate in a skills awareness workshop with Autodesk as we continue to try to tackle the huge £1.5BN STEM skills shortage. 🚀Join AUEA and start your admissions process. 🌐 www.auea.co.uk #year9 #admissions #thinkutc #utcschool #stem #aston #engineering #business #health #science #astonuniversity #birmingham
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This looks a lot of fun! Shropshire Schools and Communities check out below in Sally Themans MIPM post 👇
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The Great Wellington Pumpkin Hunt is coming this half-term - Bringing families and local businesses together for some Halloween Fun! Completely FREE, the hunt will be taking place from Saturday 26 October - Saturday 2 November! Pumpkin Trail maps will be available from Orbit Wellington Participating businesses include; Anthonys of Wellington Butchers, Gymophobics Telford, The Little Green Pantry, Boardroom Gaming Cafe, Beautiful Bargains, AJ’s Kitchen Wellington, Brenda's Bags, Odd Pals, Spinning Around Records, Specsavers, Early Bird Cafe, Cafe Gratitude, Wool Magic, The Boot Micropub, Above and Beyond, Les the Cobbler, Little Betty's Gift Company, Sweets Galore, Lucy’s Shoebox, NotJUST (International) CIC, The Green Cove, Flying Juice Tattoo - Wellington, Bath Bombs by JC, Park Street Kitchen, @Golden Scissors Wellington, Garden Room Bistro Huge thanks to Wellington Town Council, for supporting the event. ps://https://lnkd.in/eaTjz6Sc
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This is superb and great to see another local business stepping up to support careers education in our region! Well done AO Recycling on developing this from our conversation back in July, when you did a brilliant presentation @Future Leaders at Shrewsbury School! A few other thoughts and questions though: ❓ What is the selection criteria for schools, it looks like a form to be filled in? We could use our online platform to ask school students to do a short video based pitch on why they should win the visit perhaps? There are a lot of very passionate young people out there who are mad keen to support sustainability! 🔊 Happy to help and promote this to our school connections database if that helps? Locally and nationally. 📷 Have you got someone filming the visit so that it can be shared out with other schools and their students? IO could do that with our fully DBS checked videographers. 👨🏫 Have you got Gatsby Benchmark curriculum resources prepared to go with this and therefore maximise on schools using as a resource for Careers Education in other schools? 🧒 So interested to see what questions the lucky visiting students come up with! See the "Business Encounter" video that we did with EvaStore Document Management and Lanyon Bowdler on a visit that The Marches School did last year - https://lnkd.in/e9CaeBAv - copied into comments also Michael Davies - let me know if there is anything else that Interactive Opportunities or Career.Cards can help with. Liam Frances BSc (Hons) DipLCM - a great opportunity for your schools. Andriane Usherwood-Brown Shropshire Chamber of Commerce
Is this the best school trip in the UK? 🤩 We're delighted to announce a competition, which will give one lucky school the chance to bring a class for a tour of our state-of-the-art recycling plant ♻️ To make it even more exciting, the tour will be led by children's TV presenter and sustainability influencer James Stewart 🙌 School teachers and parents can enter here 👇 https://ow.ly/F6Cx50TE2W0
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11moWhilst I am an advocate of intentional reflection believing it to be the active ingredient in creating and maintaining effective professional development, it is essential that this is underpinned by a sense of balance and agency - done with, not ‘to’ colleagues. Quality teaching isn’t something you simply download onto teachers. There is so much in this article that I want to disassociate myself from - not least, the narrow definition of outcomes constraining it to academic attainment. Achievement is so much broader and deeper than prescribed digits Schools, teachers and pupils achieve so much every day that is difficult to capture, let alone measure. Teachers are a schools most valuable resource yet they haven’t time to turn around let alone reflect on the essential insights that could be gained from routinely reflecting on the difference they make in their daily work.