10 | PRIMARY AND SECONDARY NEWS
SOUTH HAMPSTEAD CONFERENCE INSPIRES DIGITAL LEADERS
Obsolete products put schools at risk
One in five schools will be left vulnerable with obsolete products Stone Group has warned. The UK-based ICT services provider
revealed that up to 20% of schools may face ‘a recipe for disaster’ by not planning to migrate from Windows Server 2003 before the 14th July 2015 deadline. The company believes that schools
The Girls’ Day School Trust (GDST) Digital Leaders Conference, held in South Hampstead, brought together over 150 UK students, their teachers, and industry mentors to compete in a uniquely inspiring digital business challenge. Ian Livingstone CBE opened the
conference, sharing his career story from designing the paper- based Dungeons & Dragons game through opening Games Workshop to launching the Lara Croft: Tomb Raider video games. The event was designed to help girls
in our schools to use and build on their innovation and teamwork skills, and really see themselves as ‘digital leaders’ in their schools and more widely. Each team had to come up with a brand new digital product or service and work out how they would successfully take it to market. Industry mentors from Discovery Education, Morgan Stanley and Firefly, amongst others, were each assigned to work with a specific team providing expertise in marketing, digital production and finance. Students also atended masterclasses throughout the day on topics including user-centred design and the perfect elevator pitch. The students presented their
prototypes in an exhibition at the end of the day, along with their financial and marketing plans, and promotional tools like adverts and websites. Sheffield High School’s Dream Pillow, an incredibly well-researched product, was the overall winner, with South Hampstead High School taking the people’s choice award with Safe Step, and Bromley High School snapping up the best app prize for Appetizer.
may be ignoring the lack of ongoing support from Microsoft in favour of keeping legacy network management and teaching software that they have historically relied on, which is often unsupported on newer server operating systems such as Windows Server 2012. This will quickly leave schools deeply vulnerable to the unique security breaches which can occur, often from within. Jay Abbot, of security consultancy
JustASC, confirmed: “In the context of a school, where an 'us vs them' culture exists between the general user base and supporting infrastructure, maintaining strong internal defences is an essential requirement. The ability to atack and exploit known vulnerabilities has literally become child’s play and can even be executed from mobile phones and tablets. “Due to a combination of free access to
the required tools, simple user interfaces, readily available information and video learning on how to use the tools and a general teenage desire to 'mess around', any unpatched and out-of-date systems accessible from networks that students are atached to is a recipe for disaster.”
Computing teaching needs support
A nationwide baseline test taken by 55,000 children has identified the areas in which schools need additional support in computing. The free Key Stage 3 test was created
by members of Naace, the community of educators, technologists and policy
makers who share a vision for the role of technology in advancing education. The test was developed to enable
schools to judge progress following the removal of assessment levels and the demise of IT atainment targets. The data samples are nationally
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