Before the summer holidays we asked teachers and school staff to complete a survey about the use of ICT in schools. We had more than 600 responses, more than half of which came from teachers. Thank you to everyone who took the time to respond to the survey; your views will help us create a representative, forward-thinking ICT strategy for schools to use in 2018-23.<\/p>\n
Survey headlines<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The most common barriers were:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Data, comments and themes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n We\u2019ve analysed all of the data collected, and your comments, and signposted these against five themes. Below are the themes, a summary and example comments which were received.<\/p>\n There were numerous comments regarding both the lack of equipment, suitability of equipment and concerns concerning budget to purchase equipment. There are repeated request to allow students\/ teachers to utilise their own equipment on the network.<\/p>\n \u201cVery outdated – other authorities have class sets of ipads, while Moray only has very old, unreliable netbooks. We need to think about the direction in which technology is moving and meet the needs of our learners more appropriately.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The majority of the comments were concerning frustrations with smoothwall and the blocks to sites considered suitable and poor Wi-Fi\/ slow network. Many of the comments mentioned the delay to get sites unblocked, confusion as to why these sites are blocked and\u00a0the belief that teachers should decide or control access.<\/p>\n \u201cInsufficient bandwidth to support the number of laptops, computers and devices – to the extent that we have had to restrict use of mobile devices whenever the ICT suite is in use as otherwise around 40% of users in the ICT suite can\u2019t get on to the network. \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cICT needs to sit down with practising teachers to listen to them with regard to their needs. The draconian bans on access to certain sites, the failure to allow personal devices to access the internet via wifi, the blocking of emails with potential dubious language all reflect a total lack of understanding to what goes on in a school. Bluntly, professionals feel that they are not trusted.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Many comments referred to teacher confidence limiting ability to engage with technology with limited opportunities to develop.<\/p>\n \u201c<\/em>Teacher confidence in changing practice\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cLack of training \/support and lack of training and support.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Comments related to the lack of suitable hardware\/ software and support required to fully\u00a0support those students with additional support needs<\/p>\n \u201cLack of laptops and the ones we have are very old. Software such as Clicker and Ivona\u00a0could be installed across all computers to allow access for everyone. Read and Write Gold\u00a0would also be helpful at secondary level. Individualised laptops (if available) could be used\u00a0to support pupils who have barriers to their learning. A\/shire has a very effective ICT programme to support pupils. It is very different in Moray.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n What happens next?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n We\u2019ll use the findings of this survey to inform the revised strategy. Currently the ICT strategy group for schools, which has representatives from all ASGs, meets regularly and they will be the first to have sight of the updated strategy. We\u2019ll use any further feedback from this group to refine the strategy, before it\u2019s submitted to committee for approval by the end of this financial year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before the summer holidays we asked teachers and school staff to complete a survey about the use of ICT in schools. We had more than 600 responses, more than half of which came from teachers. 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