Connected schools : thought leaders : essays from innovators

Introduction / Michelle Selinger, Executive Adviser Education, Cisco Systems, EMEA -- SECTION 1: LEARNERS AND TEACHERS - Listening to the learner / Craig Jones, Kevin Smith | Students, Scotland -- Learners creating the learning environment / Shirley Alexander | Professor of Learning Technologies, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia -- Schools in the community / Marian Brooks | Executive Director, Cambridge Education, Eddie Brady | Principal, Unity City Academy, England -- New skills for teachers / Manfred Wolf | Central Institute for Teacher Training and Staff Development, Bavaria, Germany -- Teachers and the Internet / Dmitry Guzhelya | Director of Federation of Internet Education, Russia -- SECTION 2: PRACTICAL FRAMEWORKS - Melting the classroom walls / Mark Edwards | Superintendent of Schools, Enrico County, Virginia, US -- Student-centred learning: making an aircraft carrier dance / John English | Community Superintendent, Fairfax County, US -- Spreading the message / Toine Maes | General Manager of Kennisnet, The Netherlands -- Relevant, reliable and risk-free / John Anderson | Education Technology Strategy Coordinator, Northern Ireland School Service; Jimmy Stewart | Director of the C2K Project, Northern Ireland -- Delivering the vision / Emile Cubeisy | Program Director, Andreas Cox | Program Manager, Jordan Education Initiative -- SECTION 3: POLICY FRAMEWORKS - Education and ICT: the potential for personalization / David Miliband | Minister of State for School Standards, Department for Education and Skills, England -- A vision of the school of the future / François Fillon | Minister of Education, France -- Technology for Knowledge’s Sake / Lyle Oberg | Minister of Learning, Alberta, Canada -- Putting an end to computer-lab thinking / Ádám Horváth | IT Adviser to the Minister of Education, Hungary -- SECTION 4: REFLECTIONS AND POSSIBILITIES - Learning communities for teachers and students / Ulf Lundin | Director, European SchoolNet, Brussels, Belgium -- Challenging change through connectivity / Alexander Yu Uvarov | Leading Researcher at the Scientific Council of Cybernetics, Academy of Sciences, Russia -- Networking for transformation: a vision for the future / David Triggs | Principal, Greensward College, England