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SuperClubsPlus would provide a pupil safe area and peer collaboration alongside Kent wide communication and collaboration if it were part of the 'Kent Learning Zone' local authority online personal learning infrastructure - also being highlighted at the ITN twilight meetings.

I saw another item on yur blog that is advertising a deal for education city for all kent schools. now you are recommedning superclubs. its confusing to know which software is being promoted (and why!).

we went for espresso because it was recommended at the leading teachers conference. now were told we should be spending more money on something different.

who decides what is recommended and works out the deal and what do they base this on. free offers are never free, and we end up getting kids interested in something that we might have to take away later because our head doesn't have the money. where can we find out what we should be doing. is anyone actually in charge of this. our head mentioned a kent learning zone. is this part of that. help!

Hi Emily

Education City is not an online Social Learning Network like Superclubsplus.com , it is an educational content program, similar to Gridclub.

It is linked to Literacy, Numeracy, Science and some MFL programs. It gives pupils reinforcement to the curriculum and offers revision and homework. School pay for its use during the day, but parents are required to pay for the use of it at home.

Superclubsplus is a safe mediated, social website where over 120,000 children and 14,000 teachers in 40 countries collaborative and communicate. It encourages personalized learning, links to PSHE, Citizenship, Literacy, Geography and pupils link to other schools through online forums. It is paid for by schools and is available from 8am-8pm and during the weekends and holidays.Overseas lnking to UK schools have membership free thanks to the British Council.

ITNs provide an opportunity for ICT Subject Leaders to review products and so make informed decisions about their spending.    The products showcased at these events are those recommended to us by Kent schools and/or where suppliers have offered significant discounts to our schools.  It is not our intention to tell schools what to buy.  Such decisions rest with individual schools.

Kent Learning Zone is an online communication and collaboration tool or ‘suite of learning platform technologies’.  It allows schools to ‘plug in’ educational content of their choice thereby proving secure access by users anytime, anywhere.  Can I suggest you visit http://www.clusterweb.org.uk/advisory/ict_learningzone.cfm and http://www.clusterweb.org.uk/advisory/ict_learningplat.cfm for more details.  

Hi Emily et al

Just to second Colette Cotton's response: SuperClubs is a safe social learning network for children.

As a teacher I am constantly amazed by how much 'content' is pumped at schools, teachers and especially, children. It really is as if some people think (as Stephen Heppell observes) learning can be delivered 'like coal'. Of course, it can't.

Using SuperClubs at our Primary School has done so much more to harness the children's interests and enthusiasm (for everything - including learning). The stats speak for themselves: nearly 40,000 emails sent over the last 2 years at our rural primary school, each child creating colourful homepages, collecting 'stars' as they learn new skills for themselves and sharing their learning with friends and peers.

I think Donna's suggestion of SuperClubsPlus providing a peer collaboration area as part of the 'Kent Learning Zone' local  infrastructure would be a powerful combination. They would compliment each other.

Superclubsplus has been a great way to encourage and promote personalised learning. Children with a range of abilities are creating eye catching and interesting project pages and developing good social skills. It helps the children to relate what they learn in PSHE in a creative way.