Adopt, adapt ... innovate !!

Talking to teachers this week and passing on to them resources I have made for specific purposes I have said over and over; ' What I want you to do is to take these resources and adopt them and use them ... when you become comfortable with them adapt them to your local purpose, make changes, alter the words and images ... and when that becomes familiar territory ... innovate ... use the ideas that are there and ones that you have fallen over on the way and begin to 'purpose build' to support individual children or whole groups. Be bold.'

This is not new stuff but I got to thinking that what is 'old hat' for one person is 'innovative technology' to another and so thinking about this I trawled the web to find if anyone else had used 'a-a-i' in an educational context.

Here are some (of the few) that I found ... I expect, and hope, that you know more !

From the Geographical Association

The Primary National Strategy had it clearly listed in a presentation called 'Leading ICT in learning and teaching within the curriculum' ... and this back in 2005

Even the Audit Commission had their say.