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Thought it would be good to share with you our December headline report that we circulate to stakeholders and interested parties. It provides an update on Computers for Pupis (CfP) initiative which has seen over 18,500 computing devices rolled out to secondary schools across Birmingham; Work with Will Perrin on a Talk About Local bespoke programme to target key communities, Online school admissions idTV development; the digital business campaign – Cafelicious and the Healthy Way to Learn IT project that has demonstrated some significant outcomes in terms of developing language skills and diabetes awareness in the Aston pride community. If you would like any further information on any of these initiatives then please get in touch.

Last Tuesday I helped to launch Birmingham’s e-Safety Strategy on behalf of Birmingham Safeguarding Children Board.  My presentation, which is below, talked about the different work that Digital Birmingham has done around the Home Access agenda and then covered Social Networking Sites as a new technology being used by young people that professionals don’t always have a full understanding of.



So I spoke about the Aston Pride project to provide computers in the homes of primary and secondary school children and also the Computers for Pupils grant which has been used by the city to launch 40-50 Birmingham e-Learning Foundation schemes in Secondary Schools across the city. The latter means that more money is coming back in to the system to help provide kit to more kids. More – e-Safety Strategy Launch event

Children benefit from having a computer in the home

For a number of years, I was involved in taking coach loads of Birmingham teachers down to the BETT show in London so that they could view the latest educational technology products, resources and best practice. The potential of technology in transforming the way children learn and interact was just starting to be unveiled.

Technology has moved on at a pace since those early days and in Jim Knight’s opening address on Wednesday at this year’s BETT show, it is all too clear the reliance and acceptance that we place on technology as the norm for enhancing the learning experience for students both in and out of school. More – Taking learning home in Birmingham