STARTER Activity:

"The 4min debate"

Show Youtube file from Downing Street and the report on the NHS ICT failure.

In two teams we will be debating the the following motion: "Tony Blair is an e-confident leader".

Each team  will have 3 mins to prepare and then 1min each to speak in support/against the motion.

Following the usual introduction and housekeeping notes:

This session explores the notion of e-confidence and supports participants in getting an overview of the skills, knowledge and understanding required.  School leaders and aspiring head teachers are thus able to consider their own training and development needs.

The first activity involves the characteristics of an e-confident school and a discussion of the leadership qualities necessary to develop a school with those features.

Course participants are asked to consider the knowledge, skills and understanding a school leader has to develop in relation to 3 or 4 characteristics.  After a few minutes 'generic' leadership skills are separated from those that relate directly to ICT.

The task can be completed either as a mindmap on paper or using inspiration. For the purpose of getting everybody started with an engaging activity, we will do this on paper and then sort out administrative issues, including the networking of everyone's laptop.

We will also consider whether the ideas developed match those published by others and what good ICT leadership looks like.