How to make constraints 'beautiful' using ICT.

1. Innovation
Thinking about ICT to enhance
meaningful learning
HMC Conference for Librarians
Aldenham School 12th November 2015
Dr Nick Dennis, BSc, MSc, PhD
Deputy Head, Berkhamsted Boys/Deputy Head (Academic)
Nottingham High School
&
constraints

6. Atul Gawande

7. School
Teacher
Student
Learning

8. CPD

9. The MOOC movement cooperates with
the tendency of mechanisation, indeed
it strengthens the tendency, and by its
promise of utility, efficiency, uniformity,
and the expedited delivery of uniform
goods, it discourages more complex
thinking about the content and aims
of education.
“
”David Bromwich, the Sterling Professor of English at Yale
University, ‘Trapped in the Virtual Classroom’
New York Review of Books, July 2015

12. Learning

17. 64%

18. 88%

19. Social

29. History

33. Challenge

34. Questions

35. What are the foundational assumptions
underpinning our current approach?
Which might be no longer valid as we
look to make our constraint beautiful?

36. What are the processes and routines we
habitually use? Which parts of them are
integral and necessary, and which could
we relax and explore alternatives to?

37. There are habitual places we go
for solutions. What would happen
if we took some of these away?

38. What internal and external
relationships do we rely on? Why
are these no longer sufficient?

39. How do we currently measure
success? Do these measures
restrict possibilities for the future?

40. Dr Nick Dennis
Email: ndennis@berkhamstedschool.org
dennis.nr@noJnghamhigh.co.uk
LinkedIn: uk.linkedin.com/in/nickdennis
Blog: hMp://www.nickdennis.com/blog